Jane in NC Posted April 24, 2016 Share Posted April 24, 2016 Book #40: The Eagle by Rosemary Sutcliff. Pre-reading it for Fritz for next year. I didn't enjoy it very much. It had good parts, but mostly it was slow and boring. And there are two more in the trilogy to pre-read. Yay. My son and I both loved The Eagle of the Ninth. Funny how The Boy went on to participate in Roman digs in Britain--the Sutcliff effect! Sorry that you did not enjoy the book. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin M Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 Link to week 17 - please continue conversation in new thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 We recently watched one of our daughters in A Midsummer Night's Dream and enjoyed it so much! They even performed it in the round. Our dd played Helena. My dd has played Helena too. It's her favorite role so far! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Traveling ought also to teach him distrust; but at the same time he will discover how many truly kind-hearted people there are with whom he never before had, or ever again will have any further communication, who yet are ready to offer him the most most disinterested assistance. And so The Voyage of the Beagle ends. I was ready for Darwin to return to England after almost 700 pages. Enough English prejudice! But then his diatribe against slavery in the last chapter demonstrates that Darwin does not justify reducing human value to that of livestock as do some of his contemporaries. We are told (A) traveler should be a botanist... I want travelers to be bird enthusiasts but that does not diminish botany. One thing that confused me momentarily was the mention of Napoleon's tomb in St. Helena. Isn't Napoleon entombed in Paris? Yes, but when the Beagle was published in 1839, Napoleon's remains were still in St. Helena, that Atlantic island off of Africa where Napoleon had been exiled. (I honestly thought of the old NYC chestnut of Who is Buried in Grant's Tomb? when Darwin mentioned Napoleon's tomb in this isolated place.) Moving forward. I am reading A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's remarkable play on race that was produced on Broadway in 1959. More to say on the playwright another day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Jane, did you mean to post on the Week 17 thread? It's my fault this one resurfaced, it showed up in my "likes" column this morning and I responded to a post, not realizing it was a week-old thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Jane, did you mean to post on the Week 17 thread? It's my fault this one resurfaced, it showed up in my "likes" column this morning and I responded to a post, not realizing it was a week-old thread. Oops! I saw BaW and jumped. I'll fix it. Thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen. Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 (edited) Oops 😊 Edited May 1, 2016 by Kathleen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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