Just cleaning the reading slate for 2011. These are the books you've seen under the Currently Reading tab during 2010 but with one added feature... my rating scale!
Key: Loved (!) Enjoyed (*) OK (/) Didn't enjoy (-) Hated (#)
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (!)
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (!)
Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean (*)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (!)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (!)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise J. McGraw (!)
Domino: The Book of Decorating by Deborah Needleman (!)
A Puzzling Pair by Amy LeFeuvre (*)
Willie's Trunk by Hon. Mrs. Greene (/)
Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson (/)
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of a Quilt by Paul Arnett, etc. (!)
Sea Life Art and Activities by Judy Press (*)
A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Write Way to Write Writing by Avi (*)
The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant) by Avi (*)
Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton Porter (!!!)
Enoch Roden's Training by Hesba Stretton (/)
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer (*)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (*)
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer (*)
Little King Davie by Nellie Hellis (/)
The Theban Plays by Sophocles (-)
The Odyssey of Homer by Homer - Duh! (translated by Richmond Lattimore) (#)
The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Robert Fitzgerald) (*)
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato (translated by Hugh Tredennick) (-)
Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aeschylus (translated by Richmond Lattimore) (-)
Blackships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliffe (*)
Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff (*)
Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Stucliff (*)
Fanny Crosby: The Hymn Writer by Bernard Ruffin (*)
The Twleve Caesars by Suetonius (tanslated by Robert Graves) (#) Actually I did not read the entire thing. I got through the first few Caesars but skipped over the personal life sections of each. Too debauched! Then I got bored and quit.
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare (/)
The Inheritance by Christoph von Schmid (*)
Tom Watkins Mistake by Emma Leslie (*)
Alabama Studio Style by Natalie Chanin (!!!)
Craft Hope: Handmade Crafts for a Cause by Jade Sims (!)
Evidence Not Seen by Darlene Deibler Rose (*)
Called to Die by Steve Estes (*)
