I bought this sign from My Sweet Savannah a few months back for our anniversary. It’s traveled a bit around the house and finally landed over our bed. I enjoyed it as I sat for long stretches of time and read this weekend. I’m reading The True End of Civil Government by John Locke and a wonderful historical novel by Geraldine Brooks titled March. The latter is the story of Mr. March, the father of the characters of Little Women. Brooks is a fascinating writer and the book is oozing with historical detail about the Civil War and the antebellum South. I would add it to a must read list. However, if you saw my most recent Amazon order, you might be suspect of my reading list advice. Here are a few of the titles:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Isaac Newton’s The Principia
Mortimer Adler’s How to Think About the Great Ideas of Western Civilization
It’s confirmed. I’m a bit nerdy. With an uncanny love for words.
Be they in a book or on the wall.
Or almost anywhere at all.
Happy Monday!
and I like cowboy boots, C.S. Lewis, good food, strong coffee, banjo music and books. I am a deeply flawed momma of 4 and grateful receiver of more good gifts than one heart can hold. I fight for joy and find it in the most unexpected places. I make quirky look normal, relish in my small town Southern way of living, and am learning that it's all grace--every last bit of it. 
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i want to add some words to my walls.
my book list is not quite as deep as yours. yours reveals a studious mind.
Edie, I just picked up "March" a few weeks ago at a yard sale. I haven't started it yet, but it's on my nightstand ready to go.
i wish i was as disciplined as you… alas, i am distracted by books narrated by dogs and speaking to car racing…hm. that, and j.crew catalogs…
Yeah, probably not going to order any of those.
Now Patty's J.Crew catalog recommendation has my attention.
wow…my mind is in the trash compared to your book list. I have a series of vampire novels and i just got a Wayne Jacobsen book called Authentic Relationships. hope homeschooling is going well.
yep, you are a bit nerdy! haha, but that's ok. you have great style that makes up for it! lol.
Hi I am new to your blog- it's wonderful and full of great stuff!
We have word walls as well! Its warm and arty! Love it!
Edie,
I know you closed comments on your next post. But I wanted to thank you for your beautiful, vulnerable words. I have not been divorced, but I have certainly reaped painful effects from my sin. And I appreciated your emphasis on how that pain and ugliness makes the work of Christ so much more beautiful. It gives me such excitement and hope for my life. Even though I know pain from within or without is always lurking. Thanks so much!
I just found your blog today and I want you to know I am sitting here sobbing like a baby. I feel for the very first time ever that someone else understands what my kids go through…that someone else understands me and the way I feel about it. I know it is closed comments but I thank you so deeply for opening up your heart and being so honest. It helped me in ways you will never know!!!