Ooooooo - an AI thread! Jason - he seemed happy to be going home! Syesha - she gets better every week and we all like her but don't see her winning. David A. - Monchichi - ha :rofl: I like his voice when he is not overdoing it (too many runs and just stuff) and sometimes he is very good but - we just don't like him. David C. - our family favorite. I like the quality of his voice, even when he shrieks. I doubt we would buy his album but I would probably enjoy listening to it! We all think that David A. will win but are still hoping that we are wrong!

Here are a few fiction titles with a fun NYC setting - All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg And here is a *teen* title that your older dd might like - Remember Me to Harold Square by Paula Danziger I am trying to think of a few books that are more about upstate NY....I'll ask my crew when they wake up! HTH.

and I need to think *out loud* here a little bit. Here are some books that I am sure I want to use - On The Incarnation (we won't get to it this year so I want to start next year with it) Confessions of St. Augustine Beowulf Canterbury Tales (Prologue and 3-4 tales) Utopia The Prince Imitation of Christ 5 Shakespeare plays (my girls chose from a list of ones we have not yet read) - Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Richard III So....other possible titles..... Rule of St. Benedict - short and I really liked it, but should I save the time for something better? Cur Deus Homo - Susan recommends it but I have never even heard of it. Is it a medieval reworking of On the Incarnation??? Aquinas? Scary!!! Which selections? La Vita Nuovo - I don't feel up to the Inferno but I thought that I could manage this one. Or am I crazy to think of reading Dante without help of some sort? Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? Or selections of Le Morte D'Arthur? Or both? Or should I just have my younger daughter read The Once and Future King on her own time (my oldest has already read it) and say that is enough Arthur? Luther or Calvin? A little of both? What is most important? I don't know how to choose selections here. Any thoughts/comments/criticisms will be gratefully received!!! Oh - I should say that I have used Lightning Lit and Smarr before. I am not happy with limiting myself to either this year and I can't afford to buy both....

Thanks! :)

Wow - I have not been to the WTM boards for nearly a year....just look at all the changes! I found the boards in 2000 (or maybe 1999?) and was a frequent lurker/occasional poster. Last year I made an effort to reduce my time online (which was good in many ways) and I stopped checking in regularly, then pretty much forgot about the boards! I am part of a RL support group but it just not the same. I have missed the support and encouragement I found here. Anyway, I had the opportunity to hear SWB speak a few days ago and I decided to come back. I am glad that I did! Oh - we've always homeschooled. I guess I can say that we use an eclectic mix (Classical, Charlotte Mason, Ruth Beechick, Christian, secular, textbooks, living books, etc.). My oldest is looking at colleges and is making herself (and the rest of us!) a little crazy. My 9yo struggles academically and that has changed how I approach everything.

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