Learning doesn’t stop because you have left School
I studied Science, Kinesiology and Nursing at university and I am very thankful for the knowledge I acquired during those years, but there was so much more to learn. Since we embarked on our journey on homeschooling, that sense of wonder and yearning to learn more came back in full throttle. I came across, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, by accident and it was very informative. Now using some of her books she listed there I created a reading list on my own.
Literature
Sept – Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Oct- Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Nov- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Dec- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert *
Jan- From Whom the Bell Tolls By Earnest Hemingway
Feb- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
March- The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
April – The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
May – Persuasion by Jane Austen*
Biographies
Fall – Confession by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Winter – Walden By Henry David Thoreau
Spring – Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
History
- History of the medieval World by Susan Wise Bauer
- Lives by Plutarch
History trough Drama
- The importance of being earnest By Oscar Wilde
Poetry
Fall/winter – Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
Winter – Beowulf
Spring – Paradise Lost by John Milton
How about you, what books would make your list for furthering your own education?
* These books are re-read but I like them and wanted to read them again but this time slowly
Spreading a living Feast 
Such a good idea to do this. I definitely want to read some classics that I’ve never read before. I should come up with a list too, but I’m not a fast reader, so I don’t think I could do 1 a month like you 😉
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If you split it up in small chunk read, you’ll be amazed how fast you can read. I am reading “war an peace” right now and I set a goal of 10 chapters a day (chapters aren’t long like two or three pages long) and I am starting to make progress on this huge wordy book!!!
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