Hobbits8 - Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

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Aug. 3, 2006

Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

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Jayber Crow and Wendell Berry were mentioned frequently at the Circe conference. I checked it out from our local library and wanted to give a quote here:

I didn't come clean about anything, really. What I wanted were courses in book-reading, and I wasn't particular which. Once I got over there in the actual presence of the classroom buildings and the library, it seemed to me that I hungered and thirsted to hear somebody talk about books who knew more about them than I did. I didn't mean I wanted to be a schoolteacher. I just made that my pretense to be there, for I had never heard that anybody ever went to a university just to read books. There had to be a real reason--namely something you wanted to do later. Anyhow, I never took any courses in the college of education. I signed up for literature courses

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Aug. 3, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Kathleen

Hi Patti! I look forward to reading your posts. You are a great inspiration to me. I now have a slew of books to check out after reading your post on American history.

~Kathleen

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Aug. 5, 2006 - Great read

Posted by cricket313

I enjoyed each of your blogs. I had read you on blog spot (or whatever the other one's name is, sorry) a time or two. Thanks of the books you listed. I'll be looking into reading one or two. I'm not great at reading history. I'm more of a fiction reader or books on homeschooling.

Great to meet you in person yesterday.

Michelle

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Aug. 5, 2006 - Books

Posted by Hobbits8

Thanks, Ladies. I love homeschooling and I love books, so I love talking about them.:-) It was nice to meet you, too, Michelle.

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I am the 48-year-old homeschooling mother of six children residing on 40 acres in the Ozarks of Missouri. I plan to write about odds and ends of things related to education, history, theology, genealogy, and my kids, of course. My husband is the owner of Clever Welding, a portable welding business.