We have been on a reading aloud hiatus for the last couple of weeks because of a bunch test preparation we needed to do. We wanted to wait until Aunt Julia got here because she is bringing us Outliers which is the exact kind of book we like to read together. Catherine recommended Three Cups of Tea. Ruthie and Karen Joy seconded the recommendation (you can find Karen’s review of the book here), so we ordered it and are waiting for it to arrive from Amazon. Kelly’s work on Betty Blonde suffers when we do not read aloud because that gives her just the right environment she likes. Christian is right there to give advise on the fine points of humor and drawing that go way over my head. Then I read this post. That was the last straw! I decided we needed to read aloud again today. When I finish this post and our homeschool lesson plans for the next couple of weeks, we are going to start in on a fairly large tome that should take us well into the summer. It is called A Patriot’s History of the United States. Hopefully it will be interesting and help Christian with his US History CLEP tests. Also, hopefully, we will be able to resist reading the other two books to ourselves when they get here!
You will love Outliers. I’d like to read Three Cups of Tea. sounds interesting. Did you ever read “freakonomics?” It’s written by Univ of Chicago econ guys.
No, but I have seen it in the bookstore. I think I am going to have to add that one to our list!
Reading aloud is a very good thing.
And I’ve really liked Malcolm Gladwell’s works thus far. I’ll need to get Outliers at some point.
~Luke