In this third Young Ladies Literary Tea, we returned to Alcott. In an unplanned twist, our general Eight Cousins book club got upgraded to a Young Ladies Literary Tea for the Rose Campbell books. Alcott’s writing is so safe that I decided to convert this to one of our teas because I knew that it…
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Freckles & A Girl of the Limberlost Young Ladies Literary Tea
After the success of my Young Ladies Literary Tea for An Old Fashioned Girl, I had high hopes for our second meeting, Freckles & A Girl of the Limberlost. Due to some logistical complications, we had to move the tea to my house. As I said in my last article, this is a grand experiment…
An Old Fashioned Girl Young Ladies Literary Tea
An Old Fashioned Girl isn’t my favorite Alcott book, but it is near the top. (My favorite Alcott story is the Rose Campbell series.)
Hobbit Club: August Meeting
I do not know what I did to get so blessed. In all likelihood, nothing. God knew what Greg and I needed, and He just asked us to obey His promptings and follow His lead. And, by His grace, He has led us into a Hobbit Club which can only be a gift from Him….
Book Club: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Earlier this month, I hosted a Wonderful Wizard of Oz themed book club at Cathedral Book and Gift with 15 young readers. I think that of all of our book clubs to date, this was my favorite. I do like the Oz books, but that is not why this was my favorite. Last summer we…
Book Club: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Earlier this week, I hosted a book club at Cathedral Book and Gift for 34 readers aged 7-15. I was shocked by the number of registrations for this particular club because our book was Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a book which many find to be quite strange. During my years at Hillsdale College,…
The Hobbit Club
Last year at about this time, some friends and I decided to start a book club for us grownups (as opposed to the book clubs for young readers and teens that I was already doing). We settled on reading Tolkien with the aid of Joseph Pearce and our Hobbit Club was born. In our first…
Virtue Book Club – September
The first meeting of my “in real life” Tending the Heart of Virtue book club was last night and I am positively glowing this morning. For a year I prayed about this idea. I knew that I wanted a local book club that would celebrate the role that books have in our quest for holiness…
Book Club: The Princess and the Goblin
“Reminding ourselves that Beauty is one in being with the Good and the True, we should remember that the beautiful always leads us back to love and reason. The lifting up of the heart in the presence of beauty enables us to give our hearts in love and to raise our heads in contemplation. This…
Book Club: The Bark of the Bog Owl
As I explained in this post, I am having great fun hosting a young readers book club at my local Christian book store, Cathedral Book and Gift. The second book in our middle-grade reader series was The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers. Bark is a fantastic first book in a very worthy…
Book Club: Henry and the Chalk Dragon
This summer I hosted a Henry and the Chalk Dragon book club at my local Christian bookstore. We had 12 kids aged 6 to 13 attend and we really did have a wonderful time together. Because we hosted this at our Christian bookstore and because I think that the Christian themes are absolutely present in…