Saturday, December 02, 2006

Books Finished in November

Some of my favorite Other Bloggers have posted their lists, and this month I actually finished a couple of books, so I have something to post!

I finished The Mouse and His Child for the Stacks Challenge. I'm still working on Just David--I've had other things to do and haven't gotten to it in a week.

And Tim and I finished Mozart by Marcia Davenport. Now we feel like we know Mozart, and we added a couple of CD's to our collection because sometimes the author would talk about a particular thing he wrote, or the circumstances surrounding it, and we'd have to hear the work she was talking about. We really did need to add to our Mozart collection--all we had were some piano pieces he wrote, and I've only just discovered that it's his chamber music I really like.

The book does mention some indiscretions of some characters, so it needs editing if a student is going to be reading it. I read most of it aloud, so I was able to edit on the fly.

We've started The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder. I finally bought a copy last January and determined to read it this year, and I didn't forget on Dec 1.

I'm also reading Parents and Children, volume 2 of Charlotte Mason's series. I'm going through that slowly and don't expect to finish before March.