SCHOLA: 2008 Reading

Monday, January 05, 2009

2008 Reading

MY READING

The Power of Now
Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
Women Who Run With the Wolves
God's War: A New History of the Crusades
The Thorn Birds
Cat's Eye
Bluebeard's Egg
The Bostonians
Toontown Player's Guide
Basic Watercolor Answer Book
Watercolor Secrets for Painting Light
Step-by-step Watercolours
Simply Watercolor: Paint Techniques That Work Every Step of the Way
The Encyclopedia of Watercolour Techniques
Masterstrokes Watercolour: A Step-by-step Guide to Learning from the Masters
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
Becoming an Australian Citizen
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Duma Key
Nature Girl
The Twilight of American Culture (again)
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (again)
Ella Enchanted
George's Secret Key to the Universe
Kurt Cobain: Journals
A Tale of Two Cities
Twilight
The Metamorphosis
The God Delusion
The Portable Atheist

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Love your reading list! I see you are getting into watercolors - you should give us a glimpse of your artwork. I envy anyone who can draw/paint. I can't even make "happy little trees" -
http://www.bobross.com/news.cfm

You should also check out www.paperbackswap.com

I get lots of my books there. I have so many hanging around the house and I like to think that I can pass them on to others who will get some use out of them. They even have a homeschooling section! If you sign up, use me as a referral - mjtarantino@aol.com; January 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM

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SCHOLA 101

schol' a: 1) An intermission of work, leisure for learning, learned conversation, debate, disputation, lecture, dissertation. 2) A meeting place for teachers and pupils, place for instruction, place of learning, school. 3) The disciples of a teacher, body of followers, school, sect. 4) An acronym for my tortuous blog title "Secular Classical Homeschoolers' Odyssean Learning Adventure." 5) How my Boston cousins pronounce "scholar." 6) Someone who studies at 10 o'clock for a dilla or a dolla.

These are the blatherings of an introverted, autodidactic, champion of The Enlightenment raising three daughters. At one time or another we have homeschooled, public-schooled, Catholic-schooled, cyber-schooled, unschooled, and even threatened boarding school. We have been inspired variously by The Well-Trained Mind, A Thomas Jefferson Education, and Climbing Parnassus, tempered by the writings and wisdom of Charlotte Mason, John Holt, Benjamin Franklin and Michel de Montaigne.

I try not to get wrapped up in labels, but we are secular and we are classical-ish.

We travel. A lot. Sometimes to the other side of the state and sometimes to the other side of the planet. Join us on our journey as we search for our home, navigate the waters of self-education, lounge with the lotus-eaters, and bash a Cyclops or two.