Biola's Bookstore is having its "Buy it so we don't have to count it" sale this week. It started Monday and I don't know when it ends. It's 30% off all store merchandise... plus a 10% staff discount! So it was 40% off (they take the 10% off the pre-sale price).

I bought some cool books at it:

1. The Princess and Curdie - macdonald
2. The Princess and the Goblin - macdonald
3. Lilith - macdonald
4. Phantastes - macdonald
5. Norton's selection of Tennyson's poetry - tennyson
6. selected essays: rennaissance and medieval literature - c.s. lewis

I can't remember what else I bought, but I'm pretty much the most excited about Tennyson. I am going to have to take a Saturday morning and set it aside to read "In Memoriam." Alright! More great English poetry!

At the moment, I'm trying to read The Brothers K. 30 pages in, the spectre of its continuing for another several thousand is daunting, but the translation is engaging, and I can see some interesting things coming along.

Libby and I just finished reading On the Shores of Silver Lake (Laura Ingalls Wilder). That was a pretty good Little House book. I liked it. Laura Ingalls caught a glimpse of Almanzo Wilder! Gasp! We'll have to see what develops!

Next we will read King Lear together. It is the greatest Shakespeare that we haven't read, and so it's a must-read. I read the first scene recently and I liked it a lot. Poor Cordelia. I am looking forward to this the most of all the books that I'm reading. This year I've come to appreciate Shakespeare for what he really is: the best author ever to write in our language. There are a few really great books, and fewer great authors. Shakespeare is ours! There's so much to learn from him! Richard III was so amazing to get into. I don't understand the half of it yet, but I can see enough to be awed.

After we finish Lear we are going to read the Silver Chair, and then we will read the next Little House book. We're rotating our way through the Narnia series and the Little House series. The Narnia books take less time to read, I think because the chapters are longer.

We are so literary.