*For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay - my first intro duction to Charlotte Mason. Her Original Homeschooling series wasn’t available to me in 1988 and it was more than a decade later that I found a secondhand set with the pink covers. In the meantime I read and re-read this book. Later I … Continue reading Six of my Favourite Books Related to a Charlotte Mason Education. 📚
Living Books
March Blether
I didn't get to post a Blether for February and decided to post one for March a bit earlier so I could include this event: During March there are some live, 'Learning with Literature' discussions hosted by Kylie at the Sweet Society. These events are free and held on a private off-Facebook site so you … Continue reading March Blether
It’s (not) Friday #4
This is a belated It's Friday post where I share snippets of what we've been doing in our Charlotte Mason High School curriculum. One of my daughter's favourite books this year is The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer but because it covers so much, she finds it difficult to narrate, so … Continue reading It’s (not) Friday #4
John Macnab by John Buchan (1925)
Two distinguished highflyers had separately been to see Dr. Acton Croke. Both were suffering from a common ailment - they had all grown too competent and comfortable and their doctor had given them both the same diagnosis and suggested treatment: “You’ve got to rediscover the comforts of your life by losing them for a little…You … Continue reading John Macnab by John Buchan (1925)
Ambleside Online Year 11
This is our Year 11 Australian/personalised adaption of Ambleside Online. We've just finished for the year and this is my final update...unless I've forgotten something. Bible/Devotions *Â **Â *Â *** In The Steps of the Master by H.V. Morton - Bible History & Geography *Â Knowing God by J.I. Packer - continued from last year ** The … Continue reading Ambleside Online Year 11
Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside was published in 1921 and is the eighth book in the Anne Series which began with Anne of Green Gables in 1908.Rilla is Anne’s youngest daughter and the story begins just prior to the start of WWI when Rilla is fifteen years of age.The tone of this book is more sombre than … Continue reading Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
Living books for the 20th Century: Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (1986)
'On the evening of 30 August when the Red Guards came to loot my house... I was sitting alone in my study reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich...' Â What an incredible story this is! Nien Cheng's memoir, Life and Death in Shanghai is saturated with spiritual and soul stretching lessons from … Continue reading Living books for the 20th Century: Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (1986)
The Small Woman by Alan Burgess (1957)
  The Small Woman by Alan Burgess is an inspiring and very well-written biography of Gladys Aylward, missionary to China for twenty years. In her mid-twenties she went through a probationary period at the China Inland Mission in London but was rejected on account of her lack of qualifications and the belief that at … Continue reading The Small Woman by Alan Burgess (1957)
Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird by Ina Watson; illustrations by Walter Cunningham (1946)
Silvertail is a lyrebird. As everything has a beginning, I am going to start by telling you where Silvertail lived, and about his people, for of course he had a family just as you have. Â Silvertail, a superb lyrebird, was born in a forest deep in the hills of Southern Victoria. Suberb lyrebirds (Menura … Continue reading Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird by Ina Watson; illustrations by Walter Cunningham (1946)
Reading Europe: Turkey – The Road From Home by David Kherdian
David Kheridian prefaces the story of his mother, Veron Dumehjian, with the statement by Adolf Hitler below. Hitler was referring to the Turkish Government's decision twenty-three years previously that all Armenians living in Turkey were to be destroyed. I have given orders to my Death Units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women, and … Continue reading Reading Europe: Turkey – The Road From Home by David Kherdian
journey & destination 