You are wise: in these podcasts I listen to by homeschoolers, they speak of the importance of what they call "narration," which is just having the child repeat back what they've had in the lesson. This is what you're doing.
Reading CS Lewis! Now you have inspired me! Have a great week!
Beautiful blooms. I didn't know it bloomed like that. Interesting thoughts. I need to know why you didn't like that book now. I read it about the time you did a long time ago. I think it bothered me and I never read anything else she wrote. I would like to know what you see in it now that we are "grown up" 🙂 That is how I read my books and look back at books that I thought were good then. My taste has changed so much from then until now. Even from two years ago. Have a nice day and keep warm.
The author didn't show, she told you; there was little dialogue. She didn't develop the characters to make them seem real or to make you care about them. It was long, seemingly full of meaningless information, a multi-generational saga, and the story seemed rushed. There wasn't enough reference to the historical setting to help you know when and where it was happening. I read half of it.
This was Isabel Allende's first book, as I understand, and people say that it is unlike any of her others. She's from Chile but has lived in California for 30 years now.
That is so wonderful that you have a book club and such a church and friends!!! God bless!!! I need to finish reading this book (wounded by love)!
Love the manzanita photos. And your parsing of The Great Divorce – it is such an allegorical book, it needs more time than I gave it when I read it recently for book club. One question, do you think the tourists are from Hell or Purgatory? I'm not familiar with what Lewis's theology about purgatory was. I love the haiku in the last post, too.
The manzanita is beautiful! What deep books to be read by high schoolers. I wish our parish had more teens. There's just not enough to have a high school Sunday school.
Oh true! Haha! I should have specified- The Great Divorce… but alas I was wrong! I have 2 other CS Lewis books awaiting but not that one!
I read The Great Divorce many years ago, and only remember that I thought it was an excellent book from a good mind. I do find that my confidence and joy in eternal life on the New Earth makes it much easier to hold various "talents" (like music or art or writing) more loosely; I know I have an infinite amount of time in which to enjoy them, in which to learn them and excel in them. There is no rush when eternity awaits.