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About Me
- MagistraCarminum
- A homeschool mom-alumni who enjoys teaching and learning about lots of things, including classical education, writing, worldviews, music, and the Bible.
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Books Completed in 2024
- 01-24 A Borrowing of Bones by P. Munier
- 01-24 The Courtship of Miles Standish by H. W. Longfellow
- 02-24 A Cross to Kill by A. Huff
- 02-24 Elegy for Eddie by J. Winspear
- 02-24 The Question of the Missing Head by EJ Copperman Koperman
- 02-24 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Z.N. Hurston
- 03-24 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by F. Backman
- 03-24 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the pie by A. Bradley
Books Completed in 2023
- 01-23 Death of a Snob by M. C. Beaton
- 01-23 Elizabeth and her German Garden by E. von Arnim
- 01-23 The Final Empire by B. Sanderson
- 01-23 The Old Curiosity Shop by C. Dickens
- 02-23 Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by B. Sanderson
- 02-23 Maisie Dobbs by J. Winspear
- 02-23 Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey by David Horowitz
- 03-23 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- 03-23 Phantastes by G. MacDonald
- 03-23 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by M. A. Shaffer and A. Barrows
- 04-23 An incomplete Revenge By J. Winspear
- 04-23 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
- 04-23 Still Life by L. Penney
- 04-23 The Reluctant Tuscan by P. Doran
- 04-23 The Thursday Murder Club by R. Osman
- 05-23 Clouds of Wirness by D. L. Sayers
- 05-23 Gathering Blue by L. Lowry
- 05-23 Pardonable Lies by J. Winspear
- 05-23 The Giver by L. Lowry
- 06-23 Messenger of Truth by J. Winspear
- 06-23 Strong Poison by D. L. Sayers
- 06-23 The Thursday Murder Club by R. Osman
- 07-23 A Fatal Grace by L. Penny
- 07-23 An Incomplete Revenge by J. Winspear
- 07-23 To Kill a Mockingbird by H. Lee
- 08-23 Among the Mad by J. Winspear
- 09-20 Bleak House by C. Dickens
- 09-23 Agnes Grey by A. Bronte
- 10-23 The Mapping of Love and Death by J. Winspear
- 10-23 The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by A. M. Smith
- 10-23 The Snow Child by E. Ivey
- 11-23 The Eyre Affair by J. Fforde
- 12-23 The Hidden Oracle by R. Riordan
- 12-23 A Child's Christmas in Wales and Other poems by D. Thomas
- 12-23 Tears of the Giraffe by A. M. Smith
- 12-23 Wool by H. Howey
- 12-23 Truth for Life by A. Begg
Books Completed 2022
- 01-22 Anansi Boys by N. Gaiman
- 02-22 The Paris Library by JS Charles
- 03-22 Death on the Nile by A. Christie
- 03-22 Magpie Murders by A. Horowitz
- 03-22 True Grit by C. Portis
- 04-22 Maisie Dobbs by J. Winspear
- 04-22 Precious Bane by M. Webb
- 04-22 The Beatryce Prophecy by K. DiCamillo
- 04-22 The Wee Free Men by T. Pratchett
- 05-22 Birds of a Feather by J. Winspear
- 05-22 Meet Me in the Margins by M. Ferguson
- 05-22 Piranesi by S. Clarke
- 05-22 Prayers of a Parent for Adult Children by K. Nielsen
- 06-22 Dune by F. Herbert
- 06-22 Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- 06-22 News of the World by P. Jiles
- 07-22 The Enchanted April by E. von Arnim
- 08-22 A Gentleman in Moscow by A. Towles
- 08-22 Guilded Ashes by R. Hodge
- 08-22 Pardonable Lies by J. Winspear
- 09-22 The Dutch House by A. Patchett
- 10-22 The Woman in the Library by S. Gentill
- 10-22 An Enchanted April by E. von Arnim
- 11-22 The Shortest History of Germany by J. Hawes
- 12-22 Evening by Evening by C. Spurgeon
- 12-22 Messenger of Truth by J. Winspear
- 12-22 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by B. Robinson
- 12-22 The Devoted Mind (unpublished mnscrpt) by K. Lundgaard
Books Completed in 2021
- 01-21 My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by F. Backman
- 01-21 The Wee Free Men by T. Pratchett
- 01-21 Unnatural Death by D. Sayers
- 02-21 A Hat Full of Sky by T. Pratchett
- 03-21 Caddie Woodlawn by C. R. Brink
- 03-21 Wintersmith by T. Pratchett
- 04-21 1&2 Thessalonians: Living the Gospel to the End by K. B. Nielson
- 04-21 A Member of the Wedding by C. McCullers
- 04-21 A Tale of a Fisherman and a Fish by A. Pushkin
- 04-21 Fahrenheit 451 by R. Bradbury
- 04-21 The Mill on the Floss by G. Eliot
- 04-21 Thessalonians: Patience of Hope by P. Arthur
- 04-21 Voices of Poetry Vol. 1
- 05-21 109 East Palace: The Secret City of Los Alamos by J. Conant
- 05-21 Little Dorritt by C. Dickens
- 05-21 The Professor and the Madman by S. Winchester
- 06-21 A Lion to Guard Us by C. R. Bulla
- 06-21 Caleb's Story by P. MacLachlan
- 06-21 How to Astronaut by T. Virts
- 06-21 I Shall Wear Midnight by T. Pratchett
- 06-21 Sarah, plain and Tall by P. MacLachlan
- 06-21 Skylark by P. MacLachlan
- 07-21 The Canoe Trip Mystery by G. C. Warner
- 07-21 Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children by R. Riggs
- 07-21 Tales of the Resistance By D. & K. Mains
- 07-21 The Black Prism by B. Weeks
- 07-21 The Boxcar Children Beginning by P. MacLachlan
- 08-21 Norse Mythology by N. Gaiman
- 09-21 The Shepherd's Crown by T. Pratchett
- 11-21 It's Jungle out There by R. Snell
- 11-21 Mr. Bliss by J. R. R. Tolkein
Books Completed 2020
- 01-2020 A Winter's Tale by W. Shakespeare
- 01-2020 An Invisibkle Thread by L. Schroff & A. Tresnowski
- 01-2020 The Green Ember by S. D. Smith
- 02-2020 The Everlasting Righteousness by H. Bonar
- 02-2020 The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
- 02-2020 The Whole Armor of God: How Christ's Victory strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare by I. Duguid
- 03-2020 Christians Get Depressed, Too by D. Murray
- 04-2020 The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
- 05-2020 A Man Lay Dead by N. Marsh
- 05-2020 Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
- 05-2020 Brothers Karamozov by F. Dostoevsky
- 05-2020 Pippi Longstockings by A. Lindgren
- 06-2020 Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connelly
- 06-2020 Ember Falls by N. D. Smith
- 06-2020 Silas Marner by G. Eliot
- 06-2020 The Great Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- 07-2020 Ember Rising by S. D. Smith
- 07-2020 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by G. Lin
- 08-2020 Ember Ends by S. D. Smith
- 09-2020 The Railway Children by E. Nesbitt
- 09-2020 The Shepherd's Crown by T. Pratchett
- 10-2020 Animal Farm by G. Orwell
- 10-2020 Out of the Silent Plant by C. S. Lewis
- 10-2020 Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
- 10-2020 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by A. Dillard
- 10-2020 Short Stories by Anton Chekhov Vol. I
- 10-2020 The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by J. Jonasson
- 10-2929 84, Charing Cross Road by H. Hanff
- 11-2020 That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
- 12-2020 The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by D. McCullough
- 12-2020 The Promises of God by C. Spurgeon
- 12-2020 Warbreaker by B. Sanderson
Books Completed 2019
- 01-19 Ajax Penumbra, 1969 by R. Sloan
- 02-19 Long Road to Mercy by D. Baldacci
- 02-19 Man Overboard: The Story of Jonah by S. Ferguson
- 02-19 No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by R. Abouzeid
- 03-19 Cranford by E. Gaskell
- 03-19 Dragons at Crumbling Castle and other Tales by T. Pratchett
- 03-19 Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher
- 03-19 The Ten Commandments: What They Mean, Why They Matter, and Why We Should Obey Them by K. DeYoung
- 03-19 The Tiger Rising by K. DiCamillo
- 03-19 Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- 04-19 The Woman Who Smashed Codes by J. Fagone
- 04-19 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by G. Lin
- 05-19 Ironhand by Charlie Fletcher
- 05-19 The BFG by R. Dahl
- 05-19 The Sword and the Stone by T. H. White
- 05-19 The Thief by M. W. Turner
- 06-19 Gaudy Night by D. Sayers
- 07-19 The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by T. L. Stewart
- 07-19 When the Sea Turned to Silver by G. Lin
- 08-19 Gifts by U. K. LeGuin
- 08-19 The Quilter's Apprentice by J. Chiaverini
- 09-19 A Christian's Guide to How We Got the Bible by G. Lanier
- 09-19 Busman's Honeymoon by D. L. Sayers
- 09-19 My Father's Dragon by R. S. Gannet
- 09-19 Real Change: Becoming More Like Jesus in Everyday Life by A. Nicholls & H. Thorne
- 09-19 Starry River of the Sky by G. Lin
- 10-19 Silvertongue by C. Fletcher
- 10-19 The Danube: A Cultural History by A. Beattie
- 10-19 The Door in the Wall by M. DeAngeli
- 10-19 Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
- 11-19 The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
- 12-19 I Shall Wear Midnight By T. Pratchett
- 12-19 Pray Big: Learn to Pray Like an Apostle by A. Begg
- 12-19 The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
- 12-19 When the Danube Ran Red by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Books Completed 2018
- 01-18 Little Men by L. M. Alcott
- 01-18 The Boys in the Boat by D. J. Brown
- 02-18 Beneath a Scarlet Sky by M. Sullivan
- 03-18 As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust by A. Bradley
- 03-18 Hamlet's Father by O. S. Card
- 03-18 Hiss and Hers by M. C. Beaton
- 03-18 The Dead in their Vaulted Arches by A. Bradley
- 03-18 The Door in the Dragon's Throat by F. Peretti
- 03-18 The Mating Season by P. G. Wodehouse
- 03-18 The Warden by A. Trollope
- 03-18 Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
- 04-18 "Babette's Feast" and "sorrow-Acre" by Isak Dinesen
- 04-18 Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- 04-18 Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
- 04-18 Sourdough by R. Sloan
- 04-18 The Sound of Gravel by R. Wariner
- 05-18 Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
- 05-18 Tangerine by Christine Mangan
- 05-18 Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mewed by A. Bradley
- 06-18 Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Book Store by R. Sloan
- 06-18 That Hideous Strength by C.. S. Lewis
- 06-18 The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by A. Bradley
- 06-18 The Song of Roland
- 06-18 The Woman who Walked in Sunshine by A. M. Smith
- 06-18 Where the Wind Leads by V. Chung
- 07-18 Redwall by B. Jacques
- 08-18 Little House in the Big Woods by L. I. Wilder
- 08-18 Mr. Popper's Penguins by R. and F. Atwater
- 08-18 Penric's Demon by L. M. Bujold
- 08-18 Selected Short Stories by M. Twain
- 09-18 Little House in the Big Woods by L. I. Wilder
- 09-18 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- 09-18 The Penderwicks by J. Birdsall
- 09-18 A Wrinkle in Time by M. L'Engle
- 09-18 The Tale of Despereaux by K. DiCamilo
- 10-18 A Man Called Ove by F. Backman
- 11-18 A Tale of Two Cities by C. Dickens
- 12-18 Brideshead Revisited by E. Waugh
Books Completed in 2017
- 01-17 All the Light We Cannot See by A. Doerr
- 01-17 Over Sea, Under Stone by S. Cooper
- 01-17 The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by R. Butterfield
- 02-17 Greenwitch by S. Cooper
- 02-17 Man's Search for Meaning by V. Frankl
- 02-17 The Dark Is Rising by S. Cooper
- 02-17 The Great Unexpected by S. Creech
- 02-17 The Grey King by S. Cooper
- 02-17 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by N. Gaiman
- 03-17 A Gentleman of Moscow by A. Towles
- 03-17 Good Poems selected by G. Keillor
- 03-17 The Graveyard Book by N. Gaiman
- 03-17 The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag by A. Bradley
- 04-17 Anathem by N. Stephenson
- 04-17 Hidden Figures by S. L. Shetterly
- 04-17 Persuasion by J. Austen
- 04-17 Silver on the Tree by S. Cooper
- 05-17 A Man called Ove by F. Backman
- 05-17 A Red herring without Mustard by A. Bradley
- 05-17 Paths of Glory by J. Archer
- 06-17 Bridge of Spies by G. Whittell
- 06-17 Neverwhere by N. Gaiman
- 06-17 The Book of Three by L. Alexander
- 06-17 The Mysterious Benedict Society by T. Stewart
- 06-17 The Person of Jesus: Radio Addresses on the Deity of the Savior by J. G. Machen
- 07-17 Death of a Policeman by M. C. Beaton
- 07-17 Gregor the Overlander by S. Collins
- 07-17 I Am Half-sick of Shadows by A. Bradley
- 07-17 Little Book of the Christian Life by J. Calvin
- 07-17 The Magician's Elephant by K. DiCamillo
- 07-17 The Tale of Petter Rabbit and other Stories by B. Potter
- 08-17 A Doll's House by H. Ibsen
- 08-17 A Long Way Home by S. Brierley
- 08-17 The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
- 08-17 The Pawn of prophecy by D. Eddings
- 09-17 The Queen of Sorcery by D. Eddings
- 09-17 To Kill a Mockingbird by H. Lee
- 10-17 A is for Alibi by S. Grafton
- 10-17 Sarah Plain and Tall and Skylark by P. MacLachan (which was totally needed after slogging my way through the Grafton novel :-O)
- 12-17 A Child's Christmas in Wales and Other Poems by D. Thomas
- 12-17 Anna Karenina by. L. Tolstoy
- 12-17 Hallelujah: An Advent Journey Through Handel's Messiah ed. by C. Rollins
- 12-17 Speaking from Among the Bones by A. Bradley
Books Completed in 2016
- 01-16 The Dragon's Tooth by N.D. Wilson
- 01-16 The Joy Project by Tony Reinke
- 02-16 The Private Patient by P. D. James
- 02-16 The Wee Free Men by T. Pratchett
- 02-16 Unbroken by L. Hillenbrand
- 03-16 Agamemnon by Aeschylus
- 03-16 The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
- 04-16 Still Life by L. Penny
- 04-16 The Innocent by D. Baldacci
- 05-16 In Sunlight and In Shadow by M. Helprin
- 05-16 The Hit by D. Baldacci
- 06-16 A Fatal Grace by L. Penny
- 06-16 Because of Winn Dixie by K. DiCamillo
- 06-16 The Target by D. Baldacci
- 08-16 Illusion by F. Peretti
- 08-16 The Aeneid by Virgil
- 08-16 The Guilty by D. Baldacci
- 09-16 Ella Enchanted by G. Levine
- 10-16 Mere Motherhood by C. Rollins
- 11-16 Paris by E. Rutherfurd
- 11-16 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by A. Bradley
- 12-16 100 Cupboards by N. Wilson
- 12-16 The Birds' Christmas Carol by K. D. Wiggin
- 12-16 The little Paris Book Shop by N. George
Books Completed in 2015
- 01-15 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
- 01-15 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- 01-15 The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkein
- 02-15 Argo by Antonio Mendez
- 02-15 The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
- 02-15 The Iliad by Homer
- 03-15 Nemesis by Agatha Christie
- 03-15 Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
- 03-15 The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
- 04-15 Little House in the Big Woods by Laura I. Wilder
- 04-15 Swan Lake by Mark Helprin
- 04-15 The Book Theif by M. Zusak
- 04-15 The Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
- 04-15 The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
- 04-15 Unnatural Death by Dorothy Sayers
- 05-15 Little House on the Prairie by L. I. Wilder
- 05-15 The Boxcar Children By G. C. Warner
- 06-15 Surprise Island by G. Warner
- 06-15 The Guns of August by B. Tuchman
- 07-15 The Hardest Peace by K. Tippet
- 07-15 The Odyssey by Homer
- 08-15 Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- 08-15 Divergent by Veronika Roth
- 08-15 Dodger by T. Pratchet
- 08-15 Insurgent by V. Roth
- 08-15 The Body in the Library by A. Christie
- 08-15 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamilo
- 09-15 Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius, trns. by C. Stuttaford
- 09-15 Death of a Kingfisher by M. C. Beaton
- 09-15 Go Set a Watchman by H. Lee
- 10-15 A Spool of Blue Thread by A. Rice
- 10-15 The Silver Linings Playbook by M. Quick
- 11-15 The hole in your Holiness by K. DeYoung
- 12-15 The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
- 12-15 Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea by J. Verne
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Your Christmas past posts have been a lot of fun. We've been reading Dickens A Christmas Carol and your series of posts has me thinking how different one would view the Ghost of Christmas Past if one had no photographs of one's past at all. My children love to study the photos of their past and it really shapes their memories and their perception of their lives. How would that be different without photographs? Was the Ghost of Christmas Past a more powerful idea for readers in a world that was only just beginning to have photography?
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