Although I?m not making official resolutions or goals this year, I am looking forward to a year full of reading, with the children and by myself. These are the reading challenges going on at our home this year. So far.
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This will be my second year with the 52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge. I love having a list of books I’ve read each year, because it helps me remember the joy and learning involved with each one.
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I’m also joining a Jane Austen Challenge
in which my goals are to reread
- Pride and Prejudice
- Northanger Abbey
- Sense and Sensibility
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Persuasion,
as well as to study Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter J. Leithart, which is an analysis of the above six novels, and to find a good biography of Jane Austen.
Together with Miss 13, who is also joining this challenge, and Miss 18, I also plan to watch several Austen movies. This will be a wonderful mother-daughter-sister project for us to enjoy this year. Miss 18 may not have enough time for all the reading, but she will definitely watch the movies with us.
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There?s also the Well-Educated Mind Challenge that looks like fun for a person with a lot of time, and the 12 Classics in 12 Months Challenge that would also be a good idea. Right now I?m not committing to those?but we?ll see if anyone at our house ends up joining them later on.
I love the Jane Austen reading goal!! Peter Leithart is a favorite of mine, but I didn’t know he had done a commentary on Austen’s novels. I am definitely going to be looking for that one! Thanks for the tip!
Leithart has written several good books on literature, hasn’t he? I always learn so much from him!
Annie Kate
I love his work on Shakespeare. 😎 I just put the Austen one on my to-buy wishlist and since I have some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket… LOL
Yes, that one is great as well. We also have Heroes of the City of Man,but haven’t used it. Have you?
Annie Kate
I think I have it, but I haven’t read it yet. I thought it would be great to build a high school lit curriculum using his commentaries, but so far I haven’t done it. Our history curriculum includes Lit so there hasn’t been a need.
I’ve been thinking of the same idea of a high school curriculum using his books and haven’t done it yet either. The Jane Austen challenge should get us started on that.
Annie Kate
I should certainly have it all ready by the time my daughter is ready for high school Lit. She’s in Grade 4 now. LOL Somehow I don’t think my boys would appreciate it, although I did tell my oldest that he could read “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” instead of the original and I would give him credit for having read it. ROFL