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Favorite authorsJane Austen, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gerald Durrell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, James Herriot, C. S. Lewis, Flannery O'Connor, Chaim Potok, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gary Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, Ravi Zacharias (Shared favorites)
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Currently readingCharlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series, 6 volume set by Charlotte Mason
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World by Jr. John G. Stackhouse
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Make Your Own Dress Patterns by Adele P. Margolis
Our Young Folks' Plutarch (Yesterday's Classics) by Rosalie Kaufman
Perspectives on an Evolving Creation by Keith B. Miller
Men of Iron (Timeless Classics) by Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Unabridged Classics) by Howard Pyle
Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy by Ronald W. Pierce
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Sketching the Countryside: How to Draw the Vanishing Rural Landscape by Frank J. Lohan
Wild Animals I Have Known (Yesterday's Classics) by Ernest Thompson Seton
A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter by Miriam Huffman Rockness
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 4: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR by Susan Wise Bauer
Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey
For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School (Child-Life Book) by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
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I'm making the request of everyone who has the book in their library, so if you don't check here often, there may be reviews up by the time you see this.
Thanks.
posted by mcegan at 9:31 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2009
My summer project has been to read Walden page by page. I have an annotated copy by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Also read Cape Cod and am now into The Maine Woods. I was able to obtain an early edition of The Maine Woods- has a green cover and gilt signature of Thoreau on the cover. I'm also reading Cramer's version of I to Myself - an annotated selection of T's journals. Will be back in Concord soon to visit the pond and the museum. Hope to climb Wachusett. Told my son he had to read Walden before he turned thirty. I'd never really read the book from front to back. It's really been an eye opener for me - might have lived my life differently - but retired now so I have my freedom to be like Thoreau. Have a website with links:
http://homepage.mac.com/donsmith/thoreau.html
I see you have Thornton Burgess added to your library. He was my mother's favorite - she knew him and read his books to me when I was little.
posted by donsmith at 12:18 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2008
Finally found that copy of In American Fields and Forests and added it to my collection. Cost me more than $2, but I think I got a reasonable bargin. I guess it's all in what you feel a one hundred year old book is worth.
Don Smith
posted by donsmith at 7:10 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2008
Interesting motivation for ebooks. Had a heart bypass operation, found I couldn't concentrate to read books (and I'm a retired school librarian). After the heart lung machine starved my brain of oxygen - this was in 1991, I found reading newspapers and magazines worked. The small page on my Palm Pilot allowed me to see just an infinite "newspaper" type column and I retrained myself to read books with a full page of information in front of me. There are a couple of doctors whose research supports my experience. The first "real" paper book I reread was Chesapeake by Michener. I still love my ebooks and have three Palm TX to read them on. Now if the new iPhone would just have an ebook reader written for it!
Try the sites http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php and http://www.ereader.com/ to see my favorite stores.
posted by donsmith at 10:20 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2008
Don Smith
posted by donsmith at 9:12 am (EST) on Jun 6, 2008