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Yes, I'm at the beach and it's Saturday, but the kids are asleep, my husband's gone for a walk, and I'm thoroughly enjoying proofreading the newest set of typeset pages for the Red Workbook of Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind, due out this fall. (If you're interested, www.amazon.com/Grammar-Well-Trained-Mind-Rhetoricians-Understand/dp/1945841265) Check out what they're diagramming by Week 20.
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I just ordered first language level 3 . It has these diagraming sentences as well. Now I have not learnt English grammar that way . Is there a specific rule to diagram sentences?
Diagraming sentences at the beach? That’s commitment! Be sure to look up from time to time & enjoy the sound of the surf. 💕
Somehow, diagramming sentences is relaxing to me. I may need this for myself 😜
Excellent! Continue enjoying the beach. Looking forward to this book.
Yay!!! We’ve been patiently waiting 😊
That’s my kind of morning! 🤓🤓
Just ordered!
This is the kind of literary criticism I enjoy while on vacation.
Seed cakes, Great Hall cakes, subtraction stew, fruit from the toffee tree. Mmmm. And let's not forget hazelnut stew and shrewbread. And lembas, naturally. (Check out www.theodysseyonline.com/50-quotes-from-the-best-vines and www.seriouseats.com/2017/10/staff-picks-favorite-fictional-foods.html for more...)
Time to go eat NutterButters and read one of the novels I just bought at the wonderful www.buxtonvillagebooks.com
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-fictional-foods-might-taste-like
The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
atlasobscura.com
Atlas Obscura readers weigh in on the fake snacks they'd most like to try.2 days ago
Brian Jacques took his food descriptions very seriously. My family and I were always snacking after listening to a Redwall audiobook. Tried some of the recipes from the Redwall cookbook too, not bad.
I collect literary cookbooks - the marriage of my favorite things! My latest addition... A Literary Tea Party: Blends and Treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo, and Book Lovers Everywhere www.amazon.com/dp/1510729100/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yH4DBbT26BH8E
We tried a shortbread type lembas yesterday, lemon in there sounds good. I'm thinking it should be denser, maybe some ground oats?
I did a Tolkien birthday party for my kids a few years ago (last year was Harry Potter) and found all sorts of recipes for fun. Seed cake was with caraway. Lembas was a lemony shortbread of sorts. Thank goodness for Google 🙂
I've always thought of seed cakes as likely poppy seeds, like a lemon poppyseed muffin.
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster... maybe just a sip.
"The books we love while young contribute to our development as individuals in no more imaginary a way than learning to ride a bike or the first day of middle school does. The enjoyment they yield, in other words, is not empty: these books play a part in the formation of our memories, the pattern we discern as our lives unfold, and therefore help to constitute our very selves. Hazlitt says this explicitly: 'In reading a book which is an old favourite with me (say the first novel I ever read) I not only have the pleasure of imagination and of a critical relish of the work, but the pleasures of memory added to it.' In fact, re-reading one’s favorite books can serve in some ways as dreamlike time travel, or even an otherwise impossible bilocation, in which we can—for a brief moment—simultaneously put one foot in our past and another in our present."
I'm spending some time with old favorites this week, experimenting with this sort of "bilocation." Currently on the third volume of James Herriot's four-volume series, and realizing the extent to which reading those as a child made me determined to...keep sheep.
Good piece.
www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-hedonism-of-reading-good-books/
The Hedonism of Reading Good Books
theamericanconservative.com
It's a pleasure that infuses life with richness and it's available for the price of a library card.3 days ago
A few years ago, I realized several correlations between my family and the Ingalls family... I realized that in a very roundabout way I *am* Ma Ingalls, I suppose because I read those books so many times that they became part of my psyche.
I honestly love reading profound, wordy, and difficult old books!
SC StephanieCarney and Tina Wilson - this looks like a good article.
Samuel Postell
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