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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (5137)	8/20/2001 12:23:10 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I should be reading my textbooks in order to prepare for my next class that starts next Monday. I have a whole WEEK off for once between classes. Normally we get no breaks, except at Christmas. But I'm not. I am going to try to finish the Underpainter. It wasn't quite as engaging as the other two books. I recently bought The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter and Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat- and I am very tempted to start reading them. My son is copying out Ulysses this summer to improve his handwriting. I wanted something difficult, yet metered, and somewhat engaging- so I guess you could say we are reading that as well. One page at a time. Not so different from how I read Julius Caesar in Latin class. :-) A Latin scholar, I was not. I wish now I had worked a great deal harder at it. I will probably pick it up again later. I want the children to know Latin. Although right now I am teaching them French. I prepared an entire French unit for my 2nd grade class last year, and ordered a ton of French children's books, from Ebay and from a bookseller Solon recommended, so I thought it would be quite a pity not to use that unit on my own kids. Which got me reading some of my old French books again. When I was in French in college my father, who was a librarian, ordered me several wonderful books in French. Life is really too short and too many hours are required for sleep.