Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"Marion Howard" #

by May Ramsay

[fiction]
(free Google book)
{Sunday Book}
  

"Dear Pen Pal" #

by Heather Vogel Frederick

[fiction]

(Kindle book]

{carried over from last week} 

"Richie Rich Digest Winners"

[comic digest]

(openlibrary.org loan)

"The Secret Language"
by Ursula Nordstrom
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"N 2 Deep" 
by Laurie Lazzaro Knowlton
"Please Reply!"
by Dandi Daley Mackall
"4Give  & 4Get"
by Kristi Holl
( todays.girls.com series, created by Terry K. Brown;
children's fiction, Christian, [Protestant, denomination
not specified] )

"Just Patty" #
by Jean Webster
[fiction]
(read online, free)

"Truly Elizabeth"
by Edna Weiss
[children's fiction]

"Henry Huggins"
by Beverly Cleary
[children's fiction]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"A New and Different Summer"
"I Met a Boy I Used to Know"
{carrying over into next week}

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]

I know this looks like a long list, but many of the books on it are children's books, and quick reads.

Memorizing Bible Verses

This is adapted, and very much expanded, from a post in one of my old blogs.

I loved the tv show "The Waltons", but I didn't agree, and still don't agree, with the way Olivia sometimes punished her children by making them memorize Bible verses. IMO, the Bible should NOT be used for punishment.

As for having children memorize Bible verses, that, in itself, is a good practice, especially if the parents also learn new verses.  For example,there is the following sentence in "The Long Winter," by Laura Ingalls Wilder:

First Grace, then Carrie, then Laura and Mary, and Ma repeated their verses.

When should children begin memorizing Bible verses?  Please keep in mind that I'm no expert, but I believe that they can start learning them at a very early age, before they are aware that they are learning Bible verses.
Simply repeat several "child friendly" verses as a matter of course, just as you would repeat, let us say, "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?"
By the time the child is old enough to understand the words, those Bible verses will have become loved and familiar, in good part because your child will associate them with a voice that is loved and familiar... your voice.

Throwback Thursday

Connecting a Picture and a Quote

I always connect this Garth Williams illustration from Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder with these words from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau:
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
If Laura Ingalls, at the age she was in the picture, had heard that quotation, I'm sure she would have agreed perfectly!

Originally posted on July 29, 2012

Sunday Snippets--- a Catholic Carnival

Well, here it is time once more for Sunday Snippets! Thanks to RAnn for hosting!  I've discovered some wonderful blogs here.  How about sharing yours? 

Semper Gaudete!: Blogger Compares Abortion to Cavity Removal, Calls Babies “Time-Sucking Monsters”

Semper Gaudete!: For Today's Solemnity (re-post, slightly edited)

Semper Gaudete!: A Post I HAVE to Share

Semper Gaudete!: Happy New Year!

Semper Gaudete!: Throwback Thursday

Semper Gaudete!: The First Story That Ever Made Me Cry

Semper Gaudete!: Books Read in the Past Week

Books Read in the Past Week

Books read for the first time are marked with a #

"Born Catholics"

compiled by F.J. Sheed

[non-fiction]
{Sunday Book}  

 "The Woman's Club: A Practical Guide and Hand-book"

by Olive Thorne Miller

[non-fiction]

(free Google book)

{carried over from last week}

"Jerry Todd's Up-The-Ladder Club #

by Leo Edwards

[children's fiction]

(openlibrary.org loan)

{carried over from last week}

"Don't Call Me Katie Rose"

"The Winds of March"

by Lenora Mattingly Weber

[YA fiction]

{carried over from last week}

"John of Pudding Lane" #
by Mabel Leigh Hunt
[children's fiction, historical]
(openlibrary.org loan)

"Daddy Long-Legs" #

by Jean Webster

[fiction]

(free Kindle book)

"Dear Pen Pal" #

by Heather Vogel Frederick

[fiction]

(Kindle book]

{carrying over into next week} 

"Richie Rich Summer Games"

[comic digest]

(openlibrary.org loan)

appropriate, since I recently joined

Richie Rich Comics Fan Club



You may have noticed by now that I often have several books "going" at the same time!

The First Story That Ever Made Me Cry

The first story I ever cried over was The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck, by Beatrix Potter. That business about the eggs just got to me.

I didn't realize back then... I hadn't even heard the term... but that was my introduction (or should that be introDUCKtion?) to the literary device known as tragic irony.

Throwback Thursday

Originally posted on January 6th, 2012

The Name Was The Same

There was something that puzzled me, and I mean greatly puzzled me, when I was little. In order to understand my confusion, you need to know that my maternal grandfather's first name was Nathan.
Every now and then, my family would go to

for a meal. Baba preferred to sit down to eat, so we'd go inside and enjoy table service.
My usual meal was a hot dog or a hamburger (I was crazy about their hamburgers!) a chocolate shake or a cup of hot chocolate, and sometimes corn on the cob. There was one item I invariably
ordered: French fries.
So where does the confusion come in?
Remember, my grandfather's first name was Nathan.
The place was called Nathan's.
We've established these two facts.
I could never understand why we had to pay for our meals, since it was quite
obvious to me that my Grandpa owned the place!