maize Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I've recently listened to these two books as audiobooks and really enjoyed learning new to me information: https://www.amazon.com/Other-Brain-Schizophrenia-Discoveries-Revolutionizing-ebook/dp/B00328ZUNE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1481306995&sr=1-1&keywords=the+other+brain https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00421BN4A/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 What brain food books have you been reading lately? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 That first one looks really intriguing. Right now working on math stuff so not much time for reading. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndOfOrdinary Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 That first one looks really intriguing. Right now working on math stuff so not much time for reading. I am watching The Great Course: Visualizing Mathematics. While everything is not mindblowing, it has some really interesting bits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I'm continually reading painting books in an effort to improve. The most helpful one I've read recently was about composition. I wrote about it here: http://www.nmsgwatercolors.com/more-summer-doings/ Does reading a Magic Treehouse book in Spanish count? Judging by the cover, I am going to learn something about tigers. : ) Nan 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I've recently listened to these two books as audiobooks and really enjoyed learning new to me information: https://www.amazon.com/Other-Brain-Schizophrenia-Discoveries-Revolutionizing-ebook/dp/B00328ZUNE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1481306995&sr=1-1&keywords=the+other+brain https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00421BN4A/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 What brain food books have you been reading lately? These look great! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 I'm continually reading painting books in an effort to improve. The most helpful one I've read recently was about composition. I wrote about it here: http://www.nmsgwatercolors.com/more-summer-doings/ Does reading a Magic Treehouse book in Spanish count? Judging by the cover, I am going to learn something about tigers. : ) Nan Absolutely Magic Tree House in Spanish counts! I attempted The Horse and His Boy in Japanese recently but it seems I've lost too much of my kanji reading skills even for that (only requires maybe third grade skills less common kanji are accompanied by phonetic markings). I wonder if I could get Magic Tree House books in Japanese; they're geared at a bit younger kids so might have all the helps I need :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 (edited) Ha! Found some! https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaurs-Before-Knight-Magic-Japanese/dp/4840105510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481391597&sr=8-1&keywords=magic+tree+house+japanese I just may know what I am getting myself for Christmas! Thanks Nan for sparking this idea :) Edited December 10, 2016 by maize Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 TinTins are where I started when I wanted to revive my French. Did they rework the illustrations in the Japanese Magic Treehouse books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted December 10, 2016 Author Share Posted December 10, 2016 TinTins are where I started when I wanted to revive my French. Did they rework the illustrations in the Japanese Magic Treehouse books? Good question, guess I'll find out. Looks like there is a Magic Tree House anime movie too: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I have been listening to the book Drive. Which is all about motivation. I chose it with the thought to learning more now that I am the boss at work but finding it is great when it comes to understanding the best ways to motivate my kids etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Academy Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I posted here awhile back looking for study guides or teaching helps for Aristotle's Poetics. I found this, and enjoyed it very much. Dd is now reading it. We're about to read Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra. To fill myself in on the background/true history of the plays, I'm reading Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love and Politics in the Ancient World and finding it excellent - just the right amount of detail/background, and very readable. When we finish ancient Rome we'll be doing some medieval British history, so I'm reading 1066: The Year of the Conquest. Again, a highly readable account that covers historiography as well as history, and gives a good sense of what life was actually like, for the common folk in England, just before the Conquest. We're also going to be reading Jane Austen, and for fun I picked up A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz, the author of Excellent Sheep, another great book about education. It's part memoir and part lit crit, and thoroughly enjoyable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 I just requested the How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin. Every year I can decode more and more of it. :) Other than that, I am reading a Bible Through the Ages History book with the kids, The Epic of Gilgamesh with them, How to Draw Everything, watching YouTube art videos, and just picked up a book, How to Get into Art School to start looking at with dd12. So constantly learning, but usually with the kids during the school year. Short articles here and there I can squeeze in from online or magazines are helpful, but nothing too deep going on right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Hey, Maize - Did you know that your Treehouse book has paperdolls in it? And it looks like you don,t need any kanji to me. I didn,t see any that didn,t have the hirigana next to it, anyway. I don,t know much about it, though. Nan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Good question, guess I'll find out. Looks like there is a Magic Tree House anime movie too: Fun! I recognized the word book! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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