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One of my reading goals this year is to finish thi One of my reading goals this year is to finish this book, Home Education by Charlotte Mason with a book club. I’m all for the solitary activity that is reading, but it’s always fulfilling to process with a few people and hear their thoughts and learnings. 

Are you part of a book club?
X years ago I married this guy who made me excited X years ago I married this guy who made me excited about the married life and talking about books and tech forever. 

This week you reminded me that I’m  God’s answer to your prayers. Kilig ako. Praising the Lord everyday for you MR 🤎
@thefilipinoparentsreview allowed me to discover s @thefilipinoparentsreview allowed me to discover so much about the things I consume. It gave me a safe space where I can process books I read, shows I watched, and things I listened to - thus review! I met new bookish mama friends who I love chatting with and getting new recommendations. So nice to commune with people in the trenches of motherhood. So maybe check us out if that interests you.

@jumieanne and I discussed our 2020 reading and watching life, our reading goals, and our 2021 word/s in our latest episode. 

I’ll be finishing the show and book I mentioned in that podcast this weekend sooo laters!
Last year I took a leap and attended @zelgarcia ‘s Smoothie bowl workshop. One of the highlights of my 2020, though a reminder of things we cannot have this year, will continue to be my source of inspiration.

Friends here sent me messages how I can read and do “a lot” one reason is this.  Smoothies makes meal prep and clean up a lot easier! 

Maybe we can share our #zelicioussmoothiebowls again here 🤔
Jan 1 - Happy Birthday Miss Mason Thanks for the Jan 1 - Happy Birthday Miss Mason

Thanks for the encouragement that I need when I am tired of reading aloud the 5th book 😭😅

 “Children should read worthy books, many worthy books”

#alifegivingeducation
#charlottemason
#charlottemasonph
Holiday reading c/o Alan Jacobs. Found this book t Holiday reading c/o Alan Jacobs. Found this book through @theunreadshelf The title caught my attention, the subtitle made me buy it.

“A Reader’s Guide to a more Tranquil Mind”

I’ll update if I get that tranquil mind after reading this. 😌

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Blurb from @penguinpress 

W. H. Auden once wrote that “art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.” In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present–and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our “personal density.”

Today we are battling too much information in a society changing at lightning speed, with algorithms aimed at shaping our every thought–plus a sense that history offers no resources, only impediments to overcome or ignore. The modern solution to our problems is to surround ourselves only with what we know and what brings us instant comfort. Jacobs’s answer is the opposite: to be in conversation with, and challenged by, those from the past who can tell us what we never thought we needed to know.

What can Homer teach us about force? How does Frederick Douglass deal with the massive blind spots of America’s Founding Fathers? And what can we learn from modern authors who engage passionately and profoundly with the past? How can Ursula K. Le Guin show us truths about Virgil’s female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen? In Breaking Bread with the Dead, a gifted scholar draws us into close and sympathetic engagement with texts from across the ages, including the work of Anita Desai, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Rhys, Simone Weil, Edith Wharton, Amitav Ghosh, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Italo Calvino, and many more.

By hearing the voices of the past, we can expand our consciousness, our sympathies, and our wisdom far beyond what our present moment can offer.
Cracked open my Christian Standard Bible from @she Cracked open my Christian Standard Bible from @shereadstruth that I’ve had for years. I think 2021 is the year I’ll try this translation. 

A contemporary english translation with key verses art, short introductions to the books, color-coded genre indicators, maps, reading plans, and timelines. Some of the features I normally try to get from different translations or from the internet all in one place. ✨

Last year I mainly read the Bible on my phone. This year I want to go back to a physical copy. I finished the daily reading prior and I think this translation is perfect for my season of busy motherhood. Also it’s really pretty 😍 

Anyone here attempting to read the Bible in it’s entirety this year? I’ve done it a couple of times before, pre-motherhood 😅 Lord willing I can again this year.

If I’ll have one reading goal this year it’s to be a “Woman in the Word everyday”
2020 was a great reading year. There was a lot of 2020 was a great reading year. There was a lot of great books to highlight but I chose 3:

📔 Extraordinary Parenting by @mightymother_ it was the most timely and encouraging read for home educators during the pandemic. I felt a little lost when our rhythm was thrown off so the chapter on Rhythms was God sent. I can’t recommend this enough.

📔 Little Women and Good Wives - I read pre-pandemic in time for the movie premier. But I ended up watching and rewatching it on Netflix cause lock down. A great escape to an era of simplicity. Made me miss my sisters and living in a house full of people.

📔 The Rosie Project - was my comfort read when our living room got flooded in. I enjoyed this escape to Don’s world and a peak at a different mind. I imagined an Australian Sheldon. Can’t wait to read the final book in a series next year.

Grateful for books and the escape it provided. I remember a quote from Prom “That’s why I love the theater. It’s how I escape. A distraction is momentary. An escape helps you heal.” Replace theater with books and that was 2020.

We might need more escaping for 2021 in our side of the world, so I’d love your recommendations! 🎉
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