Episode 209: Best of Series The Literary Life of Emily Raible, Ep. 56
Welcome to another episode in our \u201cBest of The Literary Life\u201d podcast series. Today on The Literary Life Podcast, our hosts Angelina and Cindy chat with \u201csuperfan\u201d Emily Raible about her own literary life. Emily is a homeschool mom, an avid reader, birdwatcher, baker and probably Angelina\u2019s most loyal student. In telling the story of her reading life, Emily talks about her childhood and how she was not a reader as a young person. She shares how she finally started getting interested in reading through Janette Oke and Hardy Boys books. Then she tells about borrowing books from a local family\u2019s home library and starting to fall in love with true classics.\xa0
After getting married to an avid reader, Emily started going through her husband\u2019s own library during her long hours at home alone. Even after she became of lover of reading, Emily still didn\u2019t define herself as a real reader. Emily shares her journey to becoming a homeschooling parent, how she learned about Charlotte Mason and classical education, and her first time meeting Angelina and Cindy. They continue the conversation expanding on the feast of ideas, what it means to be a \u201creader,\u201d and how we learn and enter into the literary world throughout our lives.\xa0
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Also, our Sixth Annual Literary Life Online Conference is coming up in April 2024. The theme is \u201cDispelling the Myth of Modernity\u201d with keynote speaker Jason Baxter. You can learn more and register now at HouseofHumaneLetters.com.
Commonplace Quotes:But the object of my school is to show how many extraordinary things even a lazy and ordinary man may see, if he can spur himself to the single activity of seeing.\xa0
G. K. Chesterton
Time can be both a threat and a friend to hope. Injustice, for example, has to be tediously dismantled, not exploded. This is often infuriating, but it is true.\xa0
Makoto Fujimura
Armies in the FireThe poet is traditionally a blind man, but the Christian poet, and story-teller as well, is like the blind man whom Christ touched, who looked then and saw men as if they were trees but walking. This is the beginning of vision, and it is an invitation to deeper and stranger visions than we shall have to learn to accept if we are to realize a truly Christian literature.
Flannery O\u2019Connor
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The lamps now glitter down the street;
Faintly sound the falling feet;
And the blue even slowly falls
About the garden trees and walls.
Now in the falling of the gloom
The red fire paints the empty room:
And warmly on the roof it looks,
And flickers on the back of books.
Armies march by tower and spire
Of cities blazing, in the fire;\u2014
Till as I gaze with staring eyes,
The armies fall, the lustre dies.
Then once again the glow returns;
Again the phantom city burns;
And down the red-hot valley, lo!
The phantom armies marching go!
Blinking embers, tell me true
Where are those armies marching to,
And what the burning city is
That crumbles in your furnaces!
Tremendous Trifles\xa0by G. K. Chesterton
Culture Care\xa0by Makoto Fujimura
Rascal\xa0by Sterling North
Anne of Green Gables\xa0by L. M. Montgomery
Little Women\xa0by Louisa May Alcott
Poppy Ott\xa0by Leo Edwards
Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream\xa0by William Shakespeare
The Once and Future King\xa0by T. H. White
The Lord of the Rings\xa0by J. R. R. Tolkein
The Eye of the World\xa0by Robert Jordan
Pride and Prejudice\xa0by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park\xa0by Jane Austen
Howards End\xa0by E. M. Forster
The Divine Comedy\xa0by Dante (trans. by Dorothy Sayers)
Illiad and Odyssey\xa0by Homer
The Great Gatsby\xa0by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Room of One\u2019s Own\xa0by Virginia Woolf
Why Should Businessmen Read Great Literature?\xa0by Vigen Guroian
The Scarlet Pimpernel\xa0by Baroness Orczy
Are Women Human?\xa0by Dorothy Sayers
Confessions\xa0by Augustine
Wind in the Willows\xa0by Kenneth Grahame
Babe the Gallant Pig\xa0by Dick King-Smith
Brambly Hedge\xa0by Jill Barklem
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