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Aug. 7, 2006
Book Disclaimer and Circe Conference
I ought to say that my book recommendations do not mean that I recommend them for all people and all ages. Some of the language in Jayber Crow is earthy. If I owned my copy and wanted to let my kids read it, I'd probably go through and use a marker on a half-dozen sentences or so. It's true to life and that's where Wendell Berry shines. He's a master of characterization and capturing the essence of the setting (time and place). The Cherokee Trail has about three sentences that I used a marker on my son's copy, and there's a couple of paragraphs in The American Promise that tells about the practices of a utopian colony that were a little more graphic than I wanted my son to read. Since I'm reading ahead, I don't have trouble catching these things...and obviously you have to own the book to do that. (sometimes I buy two copies and sometimes I get a library copy to have an extra).
As far as the CiRCE conference goes, I wanted to recommend one of my fellow ClassEd friend's blog site. I've put her link in the side panel. She's blogging about it, and I will probably just comment on her site unless I want to talk about something she's not. I've listened to two of the Laura Berquist lectures on CD today.
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