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Books Read 2026

Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Teaching of Writing - Duffy
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Collins
Sunrise on the Reaping - Collins
The Chosen - Potok
Marce Catlett - Berry
Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
The Round House - Erdich
Andy Catlett: Early Education - Berry
Discovery of Kentucky - Berry
November Twenty Six Nineteen Sixty Three - Berry and Shahn
Purgatory - Dante
Too Much Happiness - Munro
Brother Andre - Dubuc
This is Happiness - Williams
Andy Catlett: Early Travels - Berry
The Heart of the Matter - Greene
The End of the Affair - Greene
Virtues of Renewal - Bilbro
All Things New - Ehnow
When the Unexpected Happens - Meeker
Christy - Marshall
The Way We Live Now -Trollope
The Correspondent - Evans
Theo of Golden - Levi
Bright Evening Star - L'Engle
The Understory - Wilbert
Plough Winter and Spring
Chasing Vermeer - Helquist
Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film - Monahan/Barsam
The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
Mind and Heart Common Reader - Monta, et al

Books Read 2025

The Outsiders - Hinton
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
Anne of Windy Poplars - Montgomery
Tumble - Perez
Go Like a River - Read
Night - Weisel
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
A Wish in the Dark - Soontornvat
A Spool of Blue Thread - Tyler
Awakening at Lourdes - Wilkens
Our Lady of Hot Messes - Ochoa Adams
A Long Walk to Water - Park
Plough magazine x3
Brain on Fire - Callahan
Rhetoric - Aristotle
Elements of Rhetoric - Topping
Gregor the Overlander - Collins
Cloud Atlas - Mitchell
The Art of Persuasion: Aristotle's Rhetoric for Everybody - Crider
Persuasion - Austen
All the Crooked Saints - Stiefvater
Giants in the Earth - Rolvaag
The Heat of the Day - Bowen
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo
The Weight of Ink - Kadish
Speak like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln - Humes
On Care for our Common Home Laudato Si - Pope Francis,commentary by Sean McDonagh,
The Art of Public Speaking - Carnegie
Classical Rhetoric and the Modern Student - Corbett
The Office of Assertion An Art of Rhetoric for the Academic Essay - Crider
Atomic Habits - Clear

Books Read 2024

The Boy in the Field - Livesay
The Nickel Boys - Whitehead
Remarkably Bright Creatures - van Pelt
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Body Keeps the Score - skimmed
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankwiler
A Little Princess - Burnett
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Boyne
Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind -Kamkwamba
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty - Cooper
Where the Lost Wander - Harmon
Home Front - Hannah
How Do You Live - Yoshino
Things in the Basement - Hatke
Poetry Handbook - Oliver
My Side of the Mountain - George
The Diary of Anne Frank script
The Outsiders - Hinton
Build the Life You Want - skimmed - Brooks
The Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer -Buettner
Tom Lake - Patchett
Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery
Carrie Soto is Back - Reid
Terms of Endearment - McMurtry
How Not to Age - Greger
James - Everett
The Women - Hannah
Absolution - McDermott
Tom Sawyer - Twain
Night - Wiesel
North Woods - Mason
Natural History - Barnett
Reading Reconsidered - Lemov
Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare
Fever 1793- Anderson
26 Marathons - Keflezighi
Until August - Garcia Marquez
Our Town - Wilder
Huckleberry Finn
A Work in Progress - Lerner
Mary Jane - Blau
Anne of the Island - Montgomery
Little Women - Alcott
Wild Robot - Peter Brown
The Midnight Library - Haig
The Anxious Generation -Haidt
The Hobbit
The Giver - Lowry

Journeying is precisely the art of looking toward the horizon, thinking where I want to go but also enduring the fatigue of the journey, which is sometimes difficult. … There are dark days, even days when we fail, even days when we fall … but always think of this: Don't be afraid of failures. Don't be afraid of falling. What matters in the art of journeying isn't not falling but not staying down. Get up right away and continue going forward. This is what's beautiful: This is working every day, this is journeying as humans. But also, it's bad walking alone: ... Walking in community, with friends, with those who love us, that helps us. It helps us to arrive precisely at that goal, that 'there where' we're supposed to arrive. - Pope Francis

"Our joy will be genuine only when it no longer depends on things that can be stripped from us and destroyed and when it has its basis rather in those innermost depths of our existence which no worldly power can take from us. Every external loss should turn us back to these innermost depths and better dispose us for our true life. . . The world is not a futile confusion of drudgery and pain, for all the distress the world contains is supported in the arms of merciful love; it is caught up in the forgiving and saving graciousness of our God."

-Benedict XVI

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