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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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I love hummingbird wars. We had several feeders in California, and refilling them was like walking through a (minor, figurative) war zone. We got divebombed.
And our goofy German Shepherd liked to chase them. He scuffed his chin on the patio a few times before he realized that he could bound around after the birds themselves instead of lunging for their shadows.
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