Books and Reading https://doingwhatmatters.com/category/books/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:40:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Books and Reading https://doingwhatmatters.com/category/books/ 32 32 89931359 The Lawgivers: A Review of a New Plutarch Translation https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:54:45 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3807 Of all Charlotte Mason’s recommendations, I found her advice to read Plutarch with children one of the least appealing. I enjoy old books and love learning, but somehow, it seemed especially daunting to fit in Plutarch along with everything else....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/lawgivers-review-plutarch-hicks/feed/ 1 3807 What Grade Are You In? A Bit of Common Sense from Understood Betsy https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/#comments Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:13:09 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3746 Summer is winding down in the northern hemisphere and schoolbooks are being dusted off and swimsuits put away. I always enjoyed getting back into an orderly and predictable schedule (as orderly and predictable as was possible in a household with...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/what-grade-are-you-in/feed/ 1 3746 Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Art of Historical Fiction https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2018 01:24:52 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3627 The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was recently renamed the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, a remarkably generic name for such a prestigious award. A lot has been said about the change, and most that I have seen has been negative, with reactions...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/laura-ingalls-wilder-and-the-art-of-historical-fiction/feed/ 2 3627 Middle School Reading Lists: What a difference 100 years makes! https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:20:03 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3614 I recently came across an interesting comparison of two middle school reading lists. The author, Annie Holmquist, compared a list from 1908 with a current list from the same state on the basis of time period, thematic elements, and reading...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/middle-school-reading-lists/feed/ 2 3614 When is Reading Hard? https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/#respond Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:38:14 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3570 Reading, Comprehension, and Knowledge Do you enjoy reading? I do. I grew up reading voraciously — new books, old books, books set in the city, the country, in foreign lands, and many books that featured characters that lived lives very...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/when-is-reading-hard/feed/ 0 3570 Choosing Books for Boys https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2017 16:17:10 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3407 Choosing books for boys isn’t all that hard. Give them adventure — the kind with blood and courage, dirt and ingenuity — and watch their imaginations soar, assuming they haven’t been “Eustaced”* by the sort of twaddle mentioned in Martin...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/choosing-books-for-boys/feed/ 1 3407 Why Freshmen Fail: A Review https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-freshmen-fail-a-review/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-freshmen-fail-a-review/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2017 21:26:02 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=3069 I picked up Professor Carol‘s new book, Why Freshmen Fail, at the Great Homeschool Convention in Fort Worth, thinking it might be a resource I could recommend to parents of high-school and almost-high-school age students. I didn’t expect to find...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/why-freshmen-fail-a-review/feed/ 3 3069 David and the Phoenix: One of the 1001 Good Books https://doingwhatmatters.com/david-and-the-phoenix/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/david-and-the-phoenix/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:08:46 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2907 David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd One of my childhood companions was an old copy of David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd. It was one of the books I turned to whenever I wanted to travel the fairie realms, and...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/david-and-the-phoenix/feed/ 1 2907 Holiday Gifts You Can Read https://doingwhatmatters.com/holiday-gifts-you-can-read/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/holiday-gifts-you-can-read/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:03:00 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2824 Give the gift of delight There’s a lot to be said for gifts you can read. Books provide hours of delight at just pennies per hour, and of course, I have a few suggestions (it was hard to whittle down the list!)....

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/holiday-gifts-you-can-read/feed/ 0 2824 A poem, truth, and the month of May https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-poem-truth-and-the-month-of-may/#respond Thu, 05 May 2016 20:14:27 +0000 https://www.doingwhatmatters.com/?p=2476 Under the Willows by James Russell Lowell, 1819 – 1891 May is a pious fraud of the almanac, A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind; Or if, o’er-confident, she trust the date, And, with her...

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