8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
Neil Pasricha’s article in the Harvard Business Review has eight great suggestions on time management and organization: Centralize reading in your home, Make a public commitment, Find a few trusted lists, Change your mindset about quitting, Channel…
How to Study Wheelock’s Latin
Why study Latin — or any language for that matter? For one, I’m lately finding several things I would like to read but have not been translated into English. Further, I’m becoming more cynical about translations in general — you…
Study Guide to Wheelock’s Latin by Dale A. Grote
Digging around for my old Latin resources, I was relieved to find that the Study Guide to Wheelock’s Latin by Dale A. Grote was still freely available online. As we all know, however, when it comes to the InterWebs, too often “One day…
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
A version of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler is available in PDF format from the Everglades High School website. Though not the same one I have in my library — this one is geared towards reading the Great Books — it still contains a…
Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
While I liked the book, it was not an easy read. I think it could have benefited *greatly* from an editor. Keep in mind, too, that I am an American reading a book on English history. A Brit might not have so much trouble with it? This is the first Ives…
LibraryThing
LibraryThing claims on their about page that it is “an online service to help people catalog their books easily.” There’s a lot more going on than that — so much so that you can get lost for hours just exploring the site. I like…
The Cornell Note-Taking System
The Cornell Note-Taking System isn’t for everyone, or for every book — it’s actually designed for lecture notes — but it is extremely useful in the right setting. I created this template several years ago for my son to use and he…
Biology A Self-Teaching Guide by Steven Daniel Garber
We used this book for ninth grade biology because it was recommended in “The Well-Trained Mind.” It is a good start, but it is not enough work to earn a full high school science credit. And you will definitely need to add labs to make it a…
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry
I haven’t read any of the other translations of this book, but I will, so I can compare them. I really enjoyed this one, though. There’s also a great section with information about how David Ferry made decisions on how to deal with some of…