Posted on 06/05/2017 4:49:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
I’m reading FreeRepublic ;-). And National Review Online, the Wall Street Journal, SteynOnline, Sultan Knish, City Journal, First Things, yadda yadda. That’s just on from the top line of my favorites bar!
I just informed my two boys (16 and 12) that screen time for ALL of us is limited to 2 hours a day. I love to read, as does the 12 year old (who is homeschooled). The 16 year old hates it but really needs to do it. I am going to hand him a copy of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which the 12 year old loved.
Said 16 year old goes to private school and while his school doesn’t require any specific summer reading (!!), the others around here do. Rising sophomores are required to read Fahrenheit 451, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time. I have all three for him on hold from the library.
I grew up on the Little House series. In a family with 4 closely-spaced kids, the downstairs bathroom was the only quiet place to read, and the books were all up on the ledge by the window, so we all read and re-read them all.
I just finished reading Rebecca by Daphne du Marier - at my wife’s insistence - and it was superb.
Not at all like the movie version most people know. I'm enjoying it.
A great book for a 12-year-old, maybe some who are older: ‘My Side of the Mountain’, Jean Craighead George. If they like it, there are two other books in the trilogy:
https://www.amazon.com/Side-Mountain-Jean-Craighead-George/dp/0141312424
I’m currently reading “Russia’s Last Gasp” by Prit Buttar about the year 1916 on World War 1’s Eastern Front. After that I will try to read Vol. 3 of David Glantz’s Stalingrad Trilogy before I work on an outline of the Federalist and Antifederalist Papers for our We The People Citizen and the Constitution team.
I’m reading the Outlander series.
Thank God I was born in the 1950’s! From 11-12 on up I left the house at 7 am and was back in by 10 pm most everyday of the summer. If I spent more then 1-2 hours inside the house during those hours t was because I was sick! Baseball, softball, basketball, bike riding. Mowing lawns caddy at the local golf course (once 15),hanging out at the one and only local snack bar on the pinball machine and the jukebox! Many nights never went in the house, slept outside under the stars!
These days once school ends I rarely see any of the neighborhood kids!
Thank God I was born in the 1950’s! From 11-12 on up I left the house at 7 am and was back in by 10 pm most everyday of the summer. If I spent more then 1-2 hours inside the house during those hours t was because I was sick! Baseball, softball, basketball, bike riding. Mowing lawns caddy at the local golf course (once 15),hanging out at the one and only local snack bar on the pinball machine and the jukebox! Many nights never went in the house, slept outside under the stars!
These days once school ends I rarely see any of the neighborhood kids!
I’m reading “Rejoicing in Christ” by Michael Reeves. I’m also reading “Rivers: A Novel” by Michael Farris Smith.
Lol.. I am reading The Black Book of Communism. It’s simply shocking to read about the history and numbers of the dead.. then read the news and see precisely the same tactics. The classes are even divided up the same.
Best novel ever written by a teenager. Next year is the 200th anniversary of its publication.
Just finished two biographies of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix the dictator. Am in the middle of a biography of Gaius Marius. There are some eerie similarities between the fall of the Roman Republic and the situation here today (e.g., political street violence).
Battleground Pacific, by Sterling Mace (what a name!), who was a Marine on Peleliu and Okinawa. Very good.
That’s a wonderful novel. Good ole Lucas Beauchamp. It was said that Faulkner liked the film version, which was filmed in Oxford, his hometown.
If you loved Rebecca you will love The House on the Strand by du Marier as well. One of my all time most memorable books.
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