What a week. During times like these I’m grateful for interesting reads and fun things to delight, distract, and occupy the mind. I hope you enjoy this weekend’s assortment.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- Toni Morrison’s Personal Library Is Now Available to Purchase. What a treasure!
- A Glance at Daily Life Among the Caretakers of Britain’s Small Islands. Breathtakingly beautiful.
- Isn’t this t-shirt that a team member wore to this week’s meeting just perfect?
- A reader suggested this recipe in the comments on the kitchen faves post. We made it and it was so good! We are totally making it again.
- The Age of the Whimsical Indie Literary Adaptation Is Upon Us. “These films play on our nostalgia for the past while slyly reminding us of its drawbacks.”
- Key cozy piece in a work-from-home uniform?
- How Sharing Food Can Strengthen Communities. “Wherever our table was and whatever it looked like, what mattered most was that it brought us together.”
- 25 Things Book Lovers Will Absolutely Drool Over This Fall. Loved seeing I’d Rather Be Reading included in this post!
- Don’t Be Weird About Cast Iron. All in favor of more people cooking with cast iron!
Last weekend to vote!
If you haven’t yet, pop over to vote in the Goodreads Choice Awards, where my book Don’t Overthink It is a best nonfiction nominee. On behalf of authors everywhere, thank you for voting!
Don’t miss these posts:
- 25 family sagas that will sweep you away. With the holidays approaching, now is the perfect time to pick up an engrossing story about complicated families.
- 15 bookish gifts for kids who love to read. An updated kid gift guide is coming soon!
Have a great weekend!
12 comments
Can’t wait for my coffe to be ready to read the links that picked my attention!! Thanks
Like the article you linked to on the HuffPost said, depending on the situation in the classic book, I skip over words or use the language/scene as an opportunity for discussion with our kids. An important part of the discussion though is the fact that we shouldn’t sit exclusively as judge, jury, and executioner of the works of the past but use it as a time to humbly consider what things our own current culture is blind to that others may look back on with dismay after we are gone.
Also, I would hate for parents to think that a fairytale boils down to “a woman needs to be saved by a man.” Fairytales go much deeper than that (see CS Lewis’ essay on “In Defense of the Fairytale”).
If we totally throw the baby out with the bath water as far as classics go, we miss so much.
Well said Alison! I’m so glad our classical charter school teaches the classics this way and we try to do the same at home. And I second the recommendation of C. S. Lewis’ essay.
I so agree with you.This current culture is so intent on destroying rather than using as teachable moments .
I went online straight away to look at the Jane Austen coasters mentioned in an article, they would be a perfect Christmas present for me from my husband. I also love the article about France, I am British but lived in France for 18 months in my early twenties are there still so many things that I miss, the food being the main one, and how everything is gift wrapped in every shop.
This was one of my favorite “Friday interesting reads” articles! There were so many fantastic links today. I got lots of ideas for Christmas gifts and have even assembled a wish list for myself to give to my husband. Thank you. You brightened my morning with this and I am excited to get shopping early. I keep telling friends about Modern Mrs. Darcy. I want to build your audience and keep others reading. Have a fantastic weekend and thank you for making reading fun and exciting.
Thank you for the link to the Steve Martin interview… I might have guessed he was such a bookworm, but I hadn’t!
I find it really challenging that you are putting links to NY Times articles that I am not allowed to read once I click on the link.
You can try clearing your cache to get a “start over” with your allotted free articles per month. Or consider subscribing as it’s only $4 a month for the NYT digital subscription. I finally did that and am so glad I did as they have such a wealth of excellent articles and reporting.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one frustrated by this. It would be nice to see a warning label.
Hi Anne, just curious, do you tithe?
Thank you for so many wonderful links. I just had to order the Jane Austen coasters as a Christmas gift to myself!