2022 Reading

 January

The Family Romanov (Fleming)
Call for the Dead (LeCarre)

The River of Consciousness (Sacks)

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde (Bowden)

Timeline (Crichton)

My Brother Sam is Dead (Collier)

Animal (Taddeo)

All's Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare)

Old Cookery and Ancient Cuisine (Hazlitt)

Macbeth (Shakespeare)

Trajectory (Russo)

Othello (Shakespeare)

My Struggle, Book 1 (Knausgaard)

Love's Labor Lost (Shakespeare)

Whose Body? (Sayers)

Angela's Ashes (McCourt)

Jesus and John Wayne (Du Mez)

Odyssey Book 15 (Homer) in Greek

Catch-22 (Heller)

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

The Beautiful and the Damned (Fitzgerald)

The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (Schikele)

The Narnian (Jacobs)

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Jacobs)

Watership Down (Adams)

Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village (Cooper/Johnson)

February

Norse Mythology (Gaiman)

Can You Forgive Her? (Trollope)

Clouds of Witnesses (Sayers)

Empire of Pain (Keefe)

How to Raise a Reader (Russo/Paul)

Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)

Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson)

Skink-No Surrender (Hiaasen)

Good-Bye to All That (Graves)

March

Pride and Prejudice (Austen)

Asinaria (Plautus) in Latin

Peril (Woodward)

The Day of the Pelican (Paterson)

Animal Farm (Orwell)

Murder on the Orient Express (Christie)

Odyssey Book 16 (Homer) in Greek

Book of House Plants (Lee-Faust)

The Art of Shaving (Zaoui)

Unnatural Death (Sayers)

Johannes Brahms (Swafford)

The Inimitable Jeeves (Wodehouse)

When the Buddha was an Elephant (McGinnis)

All Our Happy Days are Stupid (Heti)

The Garden of Eden (Hemingway)

The Whore's Child (Russo)

The Lightning Thief (Riordan)

Death on the Nile (Christie)

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Sayers)

Metamorphoses Book 6 (Ovid) in Latin

To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)

Shakespeare (Bryson) 

Right Ho, Jeeves (Wodehouse)

The Power of Regret (Pink)

The Color of Magic (Pratchett)

April

Burnout (Nagoski)

The Same Stuff as Stars (Paterson)

Elsewhere (Russo)

Fried Green Tomatoes (Flagg)

Mating in Captivity (Perel)

Damned (Palahniuk)

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)

Taste (Tucci)

Strong Poison (Sayers)

The Golden Couple (Hendricks/Pekkanen)

Deliverance (Dickey)

Bittersweet (Cain)

The Sea of Monsters (Riordan)

The Five Red Herrings (Sayers)

Very Good, Jeeves (Wodehouse)

A History of Men's Fashion (Storey)

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

From Warsaw with Love (Pomfret)

Love and Saffron (Fay)

Odyssey Book 17 (Homer) in Greek

Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)

May

Have His Carcase (Sayers)

French Lessons (Mayle)

Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)

Across the River and Into the Trees (Hemingway)

Bonk (Roach)

Joy in the Morning (Wodehouse)

Worst Class Trip Ever (Barry)

Sticking it Out (Niemi)

The Night Manager (LeCarre)

A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

HMS Surprise (O'Brian)

Winner Takes Nothing (Hemingway)

Motherhood (Heti)

Murder Must Advertise (Sayers)

The Titan's Curse (Riordan)

The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton)

Mozart in the Jungle (Tindall)

June

Odyssey Book 18 (Homer) in Greek

The Gospels and Homer (MacDonald)

Home Improvement for the Busy and Broke (Salway)

Dear Mr. M. (Koch)

The Mauritius Command (O'Brian)

The Steal (Bowden)

Into the Deep (Ballard)

Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)

The Monuments Men (Witter/Edsel)

Farewell, Titanic (Pellegrino)

Pirate Latitudes (Crichton)

The Longest Race (Ayres)

Jaws (Benchley)

The Archaeology of New York State (Ritchie)

The Decameron (Boccacio)

Phedre (Racine) in French

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Abelard and Heloise)

The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)

Hero (Korda)

Battle of the Labyrinth (Riordan)

The Internet is Not What You Think It Is (Smith)

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Wilkinson)

Sink the Bismarck! (Forester)

A Year of Biblical Womanhood (Held-Evans)

We Came, We Saw, We Left (Wheelan)

Secrets of the Great Pyramid (Briar/Houdin)

Radium Girls (Moore)

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (LeCarre)

The Martian (Weir)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (LeCarre)

July 

The Wisdom of the Myths (Ferry)

Lost Classics (Ondaatje)

The Writing of the Gods (Dolnick)

Mindfuck (Wylie)

Rationality (Pinker)

Ending Parkinson's Disease (Dorsey)

Odyssey Book 19 (Homer) in Greek

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Dave)

The Mismeasure of Man (Gould)

Turn Right at Machu Picchu (Adams)

The Cuckoo's Calling (Galbraith)

Nasty, Brutish, and Short (Hershovitz)

The Perfect Storm (Junger)

Loch (Zindel)

Digital Minimalism (Newport)

The Silkworm (Galbraith)

The Pastor's Bookshelf (Carty)

Our Man in Havana (Greene)

The Right Stuff (Wolfe)

Career of Evil (Galbraith)

August

Lethal White (Galbraith)

Apokalypsis in Latin

Troubled Blood (Galbraith)

The Art of Loading Brush (Berry)

Euthyphro (Plato) in Greek

The It Girl (Ware)

Odyssey Book 20 (Homer) in Greek

A Shropshire Lad (Housman)

A Cabernet of Plants (Mabey)

Pontoon (Keillor)

The Lake Wobegon Virus (Keillor)

Erebus (Palin)

North Korea Journal (Palin)

A Thousand Ships (Haynes)

The Maid (Prose)

The Storm (Buechner)

Breaking the Male Code (Garfield)

Odyssey Book 21 (Homer) in Greek

Charlie Wilson's War (Crile)

September

The Ink Black Heart (Galbraith)

Alexandria: City of the Western Mind (Vrettos)

Don Quixote (Cervantes) 

Cloud Cuckoo Land (Doerr)

After Doubt (Swoboda)

The Great Pearl Heist (Crosby)

Aeneid Book 7 (Virgil) in Latin

Sex on the Moon (Mezrich)

The Screwtape Letters (Lewis)

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes (Everett)

The Tempest (Shakespeare)

Nefertiti (Wells)

Beating Vegas (Mezrich)

Woolly (Mezrich)

Deep Work (Newport)

The Second Death of George Mallory (Messner)

October

Laughter in Ancient Rome (Beard)

To Save Everything, Click Here (Morozov)

Slouching Toward Bethlehem (Didion)

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Ballmer)

The Good Nurse (Graeber)

Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger (Murphy)

I, Claudius (Graves)

Odyssey Book 22 (Homer) in Greek

Ex Libris (Fadiman)

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)

Jayber Crow (Berry)

Endurance (Lansing)

Poirot Investigates (Christie)

All in a Don's Day (Beard)

November

The Escape Artist (Freedland)

After the Ivory Tower Falls (Bunch)

Odyssey Book 23 (Homer) in Greek

Book of Mythicality (Neal/McLaughlin)

How Should a Person Be? (Heti)

Sharpe's Tiger (Cornwell)

Sharpe's Triumph (Cornwell)

The Nine Tailors (Sayers)

Arms and the Man (Shaw)

The Corsican Caper (Mayle)

Candida (Shaw)

The Man of Destiny (Shaw)

Dinner with Edward (Vincent)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie)

A Good Year (Mayle)

How to Inhabit Time (Smith)

Sharpe's Fortress (Cornwell)

December

Odyssey Book 24 (Homer) in Greek

The Sacred Journey (Buechner)

Serendipities (Eco)

Gaudy Night (Sayers)

The Winners (Backman)

Aeneid Book 8 (Virgil) in Latin

Lord Peter Views the Body (Sayers)

Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

Sharpe's Trafalgar (Cornwell)

The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)

Busman's Honeymoon (Sayers)

The Scapegoat (du Maurier)

Lament for a Son (Wolterstorff)

Sharpe's Prey (Cornwell)

A Year in Provence (Mayle)

Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace (Doescher)

Sideways Stories from Wayside Homeschool--James

 James was the tallest child at Wayside Homeschool. He had always been the tallest, because he had always been the oldest. He would have been glad to let Owen or Felix take a turn at being the tallest or the oldest, but every time that they got a little taller or a little older, James had become even taller and older still. He felt that it was an unfair advantage.

James was learning Logic in school this year, which is the art of critical thinking. His Father read him the Logic assignment. 

"My dog doesn't like cats, and no mouse likes cats. So my dog is a mouse. Represent this argument in logical notation."

James scratched his head. 

Father explained it to him. James scratched his head again.

Father tried to have James put the argument into a system of letters where each letter represented a proposition. A proposition was a single statement. Then Father would have him falsify each statement by writing a squiggle in front of it. Then Father would have him convert the statement by switching the orders of terms, and invert the statement switching the quality of the terms, and then find the contrapositive by converting and inverting at the same time.

James scratched his head.

"Come on, James," said Father "if you don't learn how to use logic then you'll never be able to communicate clearly."

James thought that maybe if he wanted to communicate ideas clearly that he should probably steer clear of logic. That was a conversion of Father's proposition.

"Let's review necessary and sufficient conditions," said Father, "and we'll see how much you remember. Is rain a necessary or a sufficient condition for clouds?"

"Well," explained James, "you have to have clouds in order to have rain. But you don't need to have rain if you have clouds."

"Right," said Father, "so what kind of condition is rain for clouds?"

James thought for a minute.

"Sounds like wet conditions to me."

Father scratched his head.

"In any 'if-then' statement where if you have P, then Q follows, what sort of a condition is P for Q?"

James scratched his head.

"A conditional condition?"

"Not a conditional condition."

James wrote down a squiggle in front of the proposition, "if p then q," and put brackets around it.

"I didn't mean that you should invert that proposition. What kind of a condition is P for Q in the proposition?"

James said it that P was an invalid condition for Q, since the proposition (which he had bracketed) was negated by the squiggly sign.

"No, no, no!" said Father.

James counted each "no" and wrote three more squiggly signs in front of the proposition. He looked at it for a moment.

"So it is not true that it's false that it's incorrect that the proposition that if it rains then there are clouds is untrue?"

Father rolled his eyes rudely, and Mother, who happened to be walking by, told him to mind his ps and qs. 

"Let's practice spotting a fallacy. If I tell you that you can have ice cream only if you do all of your logic homework perfectly, and you do your logic homework perfectly, but then I don't give you ice cream after it's completed, did I lie to you?"

James asked what kind of ice cream was being offered.

"I would not have lied to you," said Father, "because you would have substituted the conversion of the original proposition for the proposition I made."

James said he wouldn't have lied because he didn't want to do his logic homework anyway. 

Father didn't want to teach the logic homework either.

They had some ice cream.

Sideways Stories from Wayside Homeschool--Felix

 Felix was in Kindergarten. He had the biggest head out of anyone in his house, including his parents. This was important, because in addition to being in Kindergarten Felix was the Grownup Teacher. It was Mother and Father's job to teach Felix about the letters and numbers, and how to read them. It was Felix's job to teach the grownups about all of the things that they didn't know.

Before Felix had been born, it had James and Owen's job to teach Mother and Father about how a child's house ought to be run, but Felix thought they hadn't done a very good job. They had been too easy on Mother and Father, and he was constantly having to correct some of the bad habits that they had slipped into. 

For example, Mother and Father were very confused about what constituted edible food. Sometimes they would get all muddled up and try to feed the children things that were barely even food--things like fungus, or squash, or eggplant. It wasn't their fault. Mother and Father were both very tired all the time, and Felix knew that they probably had just forgotten about good and wholesome foods like waffles, nutella, and ice cream cones. Felix reminded them.

Mother and Father were also always getting confused about how they were supposed to help the children in school. Father would tell the children to read books for 20 minutes, but it wouldn't even be five minutes later that he would come into the library and get all upset because he found Owen and Felix reading Spiderman comic books. He didn't even seem to realize that he'd asked them to read, but would ramble on about nonsense like "homework" and "essays." Felix sometimes worried that Father was being too silly, especially when he used nonsense words like "adverb."

Felix also had to teach Mother and Father a great deal about chores. Sometimes Mother and Father would get confused about who was supposed to clean up the dinner table or put laundry away. They didn't remember that they were the only tall people in the family, so they were supposed to do these things. Instead, they would ask James or Owen or Felix to do them. Felix was polite and didn't criticize Father's bad memory in front of the other students, but just waited until Father forgot all about "chores and responsibilities" and just cleaned up the dinner table himself.

Felix also had to remind Father about bedtime every night. Father would often say, in the very middle of the day when no one was tired, that it was time for bed. It never actually WAS bedtime...it was always actually the middle of a football game or of a matchbox car race or of drumming time, but Father mixed up easily.

Once James read a book about people who got confused while climbing high mountains because there wasn't enough oxygen way high up in the skies. Felix thought that Father and Mother probably got confused from oxygen deprivation because they were too tall. But, on the other hand, no one else was tall enough to drive a car yet, so it was good that Father and Mother were still around. Still, neither of them drove the car very well. They were both so slow that they got passed by other cars all the time. If Felix was tall enough to drive the car, he would win every race to the grocery store.

Felix was a good teacher, and he often lay awake at night thinking of what he might teach Mother and Father the next day. Oftentimes he would call to Mother or Father in the middle of the night over and over again until one of them came into his room. He wanted to make sure that his students were both okay and not too scared, and it was good to check in on them.

Sometimes teaching Mother and Father was frustrating. They never seemed to remember that each of their boys would like a drink on the table (and they kept the cups too high up to reach), and they had a very hard time recognizing what the perfect football field looked like. (For example, both the library and kitchen table would make excellent football playing surfaces.) They got cranky when they went too many days in a row without a nap, and sometimes they would spend hours on silly nonsense games like "work" and "income tax."

Still, Felix kept patiently at his job. He made sure that he corrected bad habits. After all, you only get one chance to raise a parent.

Sideways Stories from Wayside Homeschool--Owen

 Owen had blonde hair, freckles, and a big smile. He could make anyone laugh. He had started learning Latin this year. Father told him the Saying of the Day in Latin: "Mea culpa."

"My fault," explained Father.

"It's okay," said Owen, "I forgive you."

Father looked puzzled. Today they were learning the new vocabulary words for Lesson 6. Father explained how each word was pronounced and then had Owen decline or conjugate it. In Latin, nouns are sorted by declensions and verbs are sorted into conjugations. The lesson had more nouns than verbs, so Owen mostly declined to learn his vocabulary.

Father said that the first word of the day was culpa, culpae. Owen asked why Father said it twice. Father explained that each noun has different case endings according to its declension. He said that culpae was the form of culpa in the genitive case. Owen asked if culp-eye meant a fault in your eye, but Father said that wasn't the case.

The next vocabulary word was Maria, which meant Mary. Father had Owen list all of the case endings of Maria, but Owen stopped on the fourth one, accusatively.

Next Father tried to explain what fuga meant, but Owen ran out of the room. 

When Owen was sitting down again Father taught him the next word, which was luna. Owen declined Father's help. He already knew what luna meant from his mythology podcast, so he didn't need a teacher to moon about all of the possible derivatives he might know. Father apologized and said, "mea culpa."

Next Owen learned that unda meant wave. He asked if "undas" meant "you wave," and "undat" meant "she waves." Father explained that Owen was using personal endings, and that unda was really a noun. Owen tried not to take the disappointment personally. He felt a little underwhelmed, and waved his hand to ask for the next word.

The next word was Hispania. Hispania was 1st declension feminine noun. Owen though that if it was a feminine noun, it ought to be Herspania, but that wasn't the case either. 

By the time they reached the noun silva, Owen felt like he was lost in the woods. Learning so many new vocabulary words in a single day could make him feel cranky and sleepy.

He fought to concentrate as father taught him what pugno meant. He judged that they must be near the end when he learned judico, considering how many new words they had learned. Distraction kept seizing him as he tried to learn occupo.

Finally they were on the last word, scribo. Scribo means "I write." Father wanted to quiz Owen on conjugating personal endings before he let Owen go.

"How would you say that we, as a family, write?" 

"Scribimus!" shouted Owen

"And how would a group of very literary pelicans write?"

"Scribunt!"

"And how would a single frog write?" asked Father excitedly.

"Scribit! Scribit! Scribit!" shouted Owen.

Father wanted Owen to work on noun forms some more, but Owen declined.

Sideways Stories from Wayside Homeschool--Father

Father was the Grammar Teacher at Wayside Homeschool. He had kind brown eyes that always looked tired. Father had a terrible secret. He wished that he could tell his secret to someone, but he couldn't. Father was the only person at Wayside Homeschool who knew what an adverb was.

Father didn't want to keep this secret, really. He kept on trying to share his secret unsuccessfully. He would ask James, who is in 6th grade, what type of word might modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. (Father hoped that this hint within the definition itself would lead James to the right answer eventually.) James answered, "a describing verb" hesitantly. Then he asked Father to repeat the question bashfully. James was thinking about sports continuously. It was difficult for him to learn any grammar deeply, because ideas for games kept popping into his mind so vividly.

Father tried to share his secret with Owen trickily. He wrote the definition of an adverb up on the word wall boldly. Father pointed at the word wall demonstratively. The Word Wall was really just the wall to the dining room, but covered in Latin declensions, definitions of parts of speech, and number patterns completely. 

He asked Owen, pointing to the word wall expectantly, to tell him what kind of a word might tell him How, When, Where, How Often, or To What Extent. Owen was drawing eagerly. Father tried to redirect Owen to his grammar lesson, but doodling was all that Owen was interested in recently. Owen liked to draw on his homework everywhere. Even though Owen wasn't supposed to, he did it constantly. If it was up to Owen, he would have spent his school drawing entirely.

Father gave up on sharing the secret about adverbs with James and Owen eventually. He figured that he could tell his secret to Felix soon. Felix was a Kindergartner with a big head and glasses that he only wore occasionally. Father whispered to Felix quietly, "Felix, do you remember the definition of a noun?" Felix whispered back softly, "A person, place, thing, or idea." 

Father couldn't bear the secret of the adverb burning inside him hotly. He asked Felix if he wanted to know his secret conspiratorially. Felix nodded suspiciously. Father whispered gently that most words that end in "ly" are adverbs, mostly. Felix told Father that he preferred words that ended in the letters "E-L-I-X," proudly.

Yes, Father was trapped with his secret about adverbs unhappily. He bore it stoically, constantly, and everywhere, mostly.

VBS 2022

 Q: How did you like VBS this year?

Felix: Good

Owen: Very good, I didn't have enough of it.

Q: Owen, is that why you made your own VBS schedule for this morning?

Owen: I made it forever whenever day we could.

Q: What were your favorite parts of VBS?

Owen: I don't know. They were all so fun that I can't choose.

Felix: Water balloons. That was my favorite part.

Q: How was VBS different this year than last year?

Owen: Well, it was like pizza party. 

Felix: It had different songs.

Owen: So last time it was Knights of North Castle, and this time it was Food Truck Party.

Felix: What do you think next time is going to be?

Q: What kinds of activities did you do during Food Truck VBS?

Owen: We made pillows

Felix: We made shirts. We painted them.

Owen: We did science experiments, like seeing how popcorn can float and seeing how food coloring goes through shaving cream that is on top of a half-filled water bottle. You have to be able to look in. 

Q: Did you like being with a bunch of other kids every morning?

Owen: YES!!

Felix: Yes.

Q: How do you think James liked it?

Owen: I think he loved it.

Q: I think he's been hiding in his room ever since VBS ended.

Owen: Maybe he's secretly a shy guy.

Q: I don't think that's a secret.

Owen: Well, I do.

Q: Who were your favorite grown-ups at VBS?

Owen: Maybe the guy that looked like Aunt Martha.

Felix: My teacher. One of my teachers.

Q: And why were these people your favorites?

Owen: Well, the guy that looks like Aunt Martha is cute. 

Q: Did you like the new songs this year?

Owen: Yes, especially Manna in the morning.

Felix: Yeah, definitely.

Q: You two had a disagreement about what the real words are to that song, did you ever figure it out?

Owen: Yes, Felix now believes me, which is good.

Q: So the real words are...?

Felix: We got the manna in the morning and quail every night!

Owen: Worst of all, he was yelling "Manna in the morning and the quality night!"

Felix: "Clarity," is what I was thinking it was.

Q: What do you think Mommy and I did when you guys were at VBS every morning?

Owen: I don't know, but I bet I don't want to know.

Felix: I don't know. 

Q: Do you want to do mushroom and onion princess VBS next year?

Both: No

Bachelor Week

 I stood back, martini in one hand, poking at the massive fire spilling out of the chimneia with my makeshift poker, trying to steer bits of old Christmas tree that were now ablaze back into a safe burning area. Bits of what had been green grass underneath were scorched to the dirt. Once I’d smashed the last of the branches into the chamber of the chimneia I downed the rest of my martini and set the glass down on the lawn chair.

“Well,” I said “time to go climb a ladder.”

It was Bachelor Week.

 

J and the boys are at camp in Philadelphia, and I’ve been on my own since early Sunday morning. I went to church on Sunday alone, to the barely concealed disappointment of my congregation. They were all looking forward to seeing what sorts of mischief Curious George might get into during the sermon this week, and since it was just boring old me they now had nothing to do but listen to the boring old pastor, who hardly ever went flying out of the pews and smashing into the suspended area microphones. Several wished me well. “Enjoy the peace and quiet!” “Have some good time off this week!”

I HAVE enjoyed the peace and quiet. I picked up all of the books in the library on Monday and put them on shelves, and not a single one has returned to the floor since then. I vacuumed the carpet in there, and not a single LEGO has appeared in the meantime. I’ve come downstairs in the mornings and have done my morning warm-up on the couch instead of down in the basement, muted. And I’ve read, endlessly, for hours at a time.

I used the first full day to take care of Unpleasantness that I didn’t feel it would be fair to the boys to involve them in—I stood in line at the DMV to get my license renewed, dropped off a donation at Goodwill, and ran some errands to the post office. (Also, I went in and got a massive haul of used books, which is probably the most immediate example of returning to type from my college bachelor days.)

There were some home projects that needed to be taken care of—reinsulating an HVAC line that had rotted away, and cleaning out the garage—but mostly the difference between this week and normal life at home has just been the ability to take care of routine housework, like folding and putting away the laundry, without a wrestling match spilling over into freshly folded laundry stacks or the insistence of a small person that they are going to “help” turning into an emotional crisis.

J’s biggest request for me was simply to remember to eat, which I have done. I have a ham and eggs for breakfast, and enough veggies and chicken to make an enormous Greek salad every day. (I’ll be ready for a break from both for a while once she gets back.) I even walked up to the gas station and grabbed a frozen pizza, which was disgusting.

With the half-marathon over, I’ve been able to take untimed and unstructured runs every day, ambling through the woods and around the neighborhood with no care for a training schedule. I’ve taken apart my espresso machine, fiddled with it, and put it back together. I’ve practiced and left my horns lying out of their cases all over the sofa. But it really has been, mostly, reading. Book 20 of the Odyssey in Greek, bits of the Vulgate in Latin, some Euthyphro, a book about exploring Machu Picchu, a survey of the ecology of the Great Lakes, a Stephen Jay Gould book, and a delightful book about philosophy and kids by Scott Hershovitz.

J will be back in a few more days, and I can’t wait. I keep on waking up with a start in the middle of the night when I realize she isn’t in the bed. And the reading binge doesn’t need to stop when she gets back, because the boys are going to spend a few days with their grandparents. But I want them to come back too. It’s too quiet. I ordered their school books for next year (and wrote their instruction plans for the school district…) and as much as I’m enjoying the break, I’m looking forward to working on more Logic with James, starting on Latin with Owen, and starting Felix in Kindergarten.

But I’ll still soak up the next few days of having the library clean.