by applewooddollhospital | Aug 14, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
by: Sinclair Lewis Babbit was written in the 1920s by Sinclair Lewis who was a socialist. Normally, a socialist’s commentary on American culture from the 1920s wouldn’t interest me, but this book is part of the literature curriculum of a Catholic...
by applewooddollhospital | Jul 28, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Mary Shelley This was another book on Joseph Pearce’s “100 Works of Literature Every Catholic Should Read” list. In the beginning, it felt a bit melodramatic, particularly the male characters and especially Victor Frankenstein. I kept...
by applewooddollhospital | Jun 6, 2024 | Blog, Essays
I put the book down that I had been reading aloud about a pioneer woman who had saved her dying child. My son was studying pioneer times and we were reading a historical novel about a...
by applewooddollhospital | Feb 20, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
by Thomas More I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this book. I’d read it was a satire and then the guy who wrote the introduction to the version I was reading insisted it wasn’t...
by applewooddollhospital | Feb 9, 2024 | Blog, Saturday Fairy Eggs
Children are naturally curious creatures and with so many under one roof coupled with the fact that we homeschool, we are frequently looking things up to answer the various questions that arise. For instance, the children found that one of the chickens had laid an egg...
