I am currently working on an in-depth article in collaboration with my husband Peco to bring to life a blueprint for teenage and adult communities where authentic relationships can grow, free from digital disorientation. Keep your eyes on your inbox early next week :)
Happy Fall ! The trees are starting to turn into their most brilliant colours here in southern Ontario, calling for endless walks among the leaves (no one captured this fiery foliage more strikingly than the The Group of Seven ).
If you are in the mood for some more Chesterton after last week’s post, here is a treat fromHaley Stewart: Chaos Is Dull: G.K. Chesterton and Detective Fiction, a great exploration on why we are drawn to the detective structure. Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers were among the members of Chesterton’s “Detection Club”, where he prompted all members upon entering,
…to swear on a skull that your story’s detective never resort to using “Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Coincidence, or Act of God”.
Over the last decade I have found myself a surprising fan on murder mysteries (mostly P.D. James), and use them as a type of palate cleanser between my classic reads. Although a hard copy is preferable, you can find over 100 free downloads of classic detective novels on Project Gutenberg, including, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone (one of my favorites) , Charles Dickens’s Hunted Down, and Dorothy Sayer’s Whose Body.
If you would like to embark on a Great Books challenge, this is a fantastic list (thanks Joel J Miller for linking this in your reading plan!) For some added inspiration see Ted Gioia’s Lifetime Reading Plan.
If you are in search of good books to read for your kids, James Dietz has just started a series worth exploring: Finding 1000 Good Books. Catherine from How We Homeschool provides a tremendous history reading resource here: An Ancient World Reading List for Ages 5-10.
Finally see my post on how “eating” books can serve to re-train our deep attention:
