Hell’s Half Acre

Mostly for my own benefit, I am keeping a weekly report of books we’ve read and some of what we’ve done with academics this week.  I’m not sure I’ll keep it up.
Jesse Reading:
Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Pike Reading:
Stone Fox
Mom Reading to boys:
Arabs in the Golden Age
Finished Shadow Spinner
Started Genghis Khan and the Mongol Hordes
Mom [...]

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There was once a Twilight Zone episode wherein a bookworm type man (I don’t remember if he owned a bookstore or was a librarian - NO! he had some job and would steal time to read.  He’d read at lunch, going home, he’d rush through dinner with his wife (who HATED the books) all his [...]

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