Member: alivanmom

Have you an opinion yet of your recently added Modern Mathematics Made Meaningful with Cuisenaire Rods? I love Cuisenaire rods but haven't used them to teach with for a long time.

posted by SaintSunniva at 1:15 pm (EST) on May 11, 2009

Hello,
The Mount Mary Hymnal in my library is edited by Sr. Mary Gisela -- is that the same as the one you have listed with no author? If so, I'd like to combine them. Let me know when you get a chance.

Merry Christmas!

posted by SaintSunniva at 3:10 pm (EST) on Dec 23, 2008

Dear alivanmom: Several of the 24 books that we share are among my favorites. The Silver Chair was given to me when I was eight or nine (1962 or 1963). Marco Polo was the first color movie that I saw in a drive-in theater in eastern Oregon in 1962. Starring Rory Calhoun, it wasn't historically accurate, but I led me to the book. I discovered Duffy's book on Patrick when I went to Dublin in 2002. While I'm not Catholic, many of my Catholic friends say that I ought to be, since my wife, Nora, and I have seven children. I was born in LA (Alhambra) and she was born in Sacramento, but we didn't meet until we met here in Indy. Beowulf is another favorite of mine. I'm still trying to learn a bit of the Old English, but it comes slowly. Out of the Silent Planet belies the fact that I have a weakness for Sci-Fi, my favorite authors being: Isaac Asimov, Stephen Lawhead, and Elizabeth Moon. While your husband is an engineer, I am an architect. We also have home educated our children, the bulk of the effort falling to Nora, but I help where I can. We have five girls and two boys and one granddaughter, age six. Our oldest son, Luke, really enjoys Hamlet, along with several other works by Shakespeare. Our whole family is into J.R.R. Tolkien's work, especially Nora, who reads through the Hobbit and the Trilogy fairly often. She and I have fond memories of listening to the Hobbit production on the BBC back in the early 1980's. May you and yours have a delightful Christmas. God bless. YangGuy (aka Larry)

posted by yangguy at 11:22 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2008

I added a cover for Saint Among the Hurons today.

posted by SaintSunniva at 6:52 pm (EST) on Sep 1, 2008

Hello,
I added a cover for Creator and Creation by Mary Daly.

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:32 pm (EST) on Aug 30, 2008

Just added a cover for Secrets of the Cypress Swamp!
Amy

posted by SaintSunniva at 3:52 pm (EST) on Jul 13, 2008

It's me again...

Let me see if I understand, the binder and dividers have things printed on them? And there's a text that you can buy separately? So I could get the binder and dividers and use that without buying the text?

It looked interesting at the Hedge School site.
Thank you very much!
:) Jessica

posted by triviumacademy at 7:42 am (EST) on Mar 20, 2008

Hi,
I am looking for an opinion about Universe in His Hands by Mary Daly, I noticed that you have it in your library. Do you mind telling me a little about it? I saw on MaterAmabilis.org that it is listed under 6/7 year old and that it is a great introductory to natural science but I can't find samples of it online or any reviews other than at Hedge School.

I have dd7 and ds3, we're not Catholic but I'm exploring materials.
Thank you!
Jessica

posted by triviumacademy at 8:06 am (EST) on Mar 18, 2008

If you like book covers, I recently added a number of images for books we share, several of which have only the two copies on LT at the moment. I hope it helps.

Your library is more similar to mine than vice versa - you're in my top four similar libraries. The similarity in our libraries must be partly because Kolbe Academy planned their high school curriculum around St Thomas Acquinas College's reading list. We went through part, or most, of high school at home with our kids so as to give them a grounding in the classics which they might find more difficult to acquire in later life. So far I haven't managed to persuade any of them to go to a Catholic liberal arts college, and with the youngest in university, it doesn't look likely that any will in the future. ("But MOM! I can only study nanotechnology engineering at Waterloo!")

However, the homeschooling worked, at least to the extent that each child is passionately fond of Beowulf, Xenophon, Homer, and the Icelandic Sagas. And all practicing Catholics.

posted by muumi at 10:12 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

Oops, I meant Credo, not Clarion...although eventually I'll get to the Clarions, too.

posted by SaintSunniva at 2:19 am (EST) on Feb 3, 2008

Hello,
I'm adding covers for my American Background and Clarion books, some of which we share. Also, I noticed your copy of Goodbye, Mr. Chips is missing the author (James Hilton) and a comma...it will then be shared by hundreds rather than two.

posted by SaintSunniva at 2:06 am (EST) on Feb 3, 2008

I just loaded a cover for A Children's Book of Saints AND The Young People's Book of Saints (same contents, but different titles and covers), in case you'd like to add it too.

posted by SaintSunniva at 12:04 pm (EST) on Dec 30, 2007

Hello! I just loaded a photo of Children of the Covered Wagon.

posted by SaintSunniva at 2:10 am (EST) on Dec 22, 2007

I see you are a big fan of Lenora Mattingly Weber -- don't you wish someone was writing like her now? Exciting, with interesting character development, some suspense, romance. I only have a few of her books, but we read Beany Malone for our book group a few years ago, because of the author being a Catholic woman.

posted by SaintSunniva at 10:13 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2007

Please tell me about your audio book of Ballad of the White Horse, like who is the reader, and who published or made it. I would love to get it on cd, but can only find it (online) on CDs which are only for computers.

posted by SaintSunniva at 11:50 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2006

Your kind answer was very helpful. Thank you very much indeed.
As you know, you 've got a great library--and good advice in it.
In X°,
Bart.

posted by boekerij at 3:01 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2006

Could you perhaps tell something more about your [Copernicus, Galileo and the Catholic Sponsorship of Science] book by Jane Meyerhofer?

posted by boekerij at 11:28 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2006

Hi! I'm just starting out classically homeschooling. We have 26 books in common and it looks like we've followed the same path for Grammar 1. Would love to chat with you sometime!

Jessica

posted by triviumacademy at 7:13 pm (EST) on Jun 8, 2006

survival in the storm great huh? but kind of sad but still great L.O.L

posted by monkey101 at 12:22 am (EST) on May 13, 2006

Thank you.
If our library is great, then yours is excellent! I am especially impressed by the fact that your children's literature appears to be twaddle-free.

posted by catholicfamily at 12:18 am (EST) on Apr 2, 2006