I’d like to introduce some of the sites and organizations listed on the right side of the page you may not be familiar with. In no particular order they are:
Well Read Mom – this is a group I joined just last year, a book club that knows that time for reading is precious and difficult to come by. The website describes the group thus: “Well-Read Mom accompanies women in the reading of great books and spiritual classics to encourage personal growth, friendship, and meaningful conversations in order to explore the human condition and reorient ourselves to what is good, beautiful, and true.”
The selections are well-thought out and follow a theme for each year. Some of them may be more to your liking than others, but sometimes reading something you might never have gone to on your own is a pleasant challenge. And, you don’t actually have to be a mom to join. Books we have read this year include Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, Antigone by Sophocles, and The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. Later, we’ll read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky.
Traditional Catholic – what a great site. You can get lost in this library forever. It can be a little difficult to wade through, but absolutely worth it. Some books have audio formats as well as pdfs or Kindle. Books by the Saints and Doctors of the Church are available. God bless the person who took the time to dig out all this information and provide it to us.
Project Gutenberg – you want great books? There are over 60,000 free ebooks here. The formats include HTML, plain text, and Kindle. While I prefer holding a book in my hands when I read, I’m more than willing to use my computer or Kindle when I can’t find what I’m looking for in a library or used book store or just can’t afford to buy.
There’s a start. We’ll continue looking at these sites in a future post.
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