SS #63: Who’s Your Daddy?
In today’s episode, Mystie and Brandy dig deeply into the four types of reading explained by AG Sertillanges in his wonderful book The Intellectual Life. Before Brandy read this, she didn’t even know there were four types of reading! It’s a very interesting distinction to make, and we think you’ll love today’s discussion.
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Show Notes:
Scholé Everyday:
- Mystie
How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
- Brandy
Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
Boys of Blur by N.D. Wilson
History of English Literature for Girls and Boys by H.E. Marshall
Island Story by H.E. Marshall
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
Topical Discussion:
The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges
Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour
- Who is Dr. Perrin?
The Four Cardinal Virtues by Josef Pieper
- Who was Charlotte Mason?
Norms and Nobility by David Hicks
Poetic Knowledge by James Taylor
Consider This by Karen Glass
- Jacques Barzun, author
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
- Brandy’s phonics curriculum, Teaching Reading with Bob Books
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas by Thomas Aquinas
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler
The Liberal Arts Tradition by Ravi Jain and Kevin Clark
Acedia & me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer’s Life by Kathleen Norris
- Books by Louisa May Alcott
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
The Rector of Justin: A Novel by Louis Auchincloss
Richard Halliburton’s Book of Marvels: The Occident by Richard Halliburton
How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children’s Books by Joan Bodger
Interesting topic. I’m so behind in reading – what I should’ve read my whole life and didn’t, plus keeping up with our school reading – that I grab whatever is thrown at me. And it’s such a race through that I’m missing out on a lot of the formative effect ????.
One thing I found particularly exciting, I couldn’t help but make a music theory connection with the accidental reading. “Accidentals” in music are specially identified notes that are played in a piece of music that don’t belong to the written key signature. For example, in the key of D, there are two sharps – C# and F#. So C natural and F natural are never played….unless the composer decides that they need one or the other or both to arrive at a certain sound. So, in similar thought, accidental reading will be bringing in a book outside of your normal pool of books – authors, genres, etc. For example: I’m non-denominational, but I have plenty of friends/acquaintances who are reformed. Because I want to better understand what they believe, I pick up a book on reformed theology, a theology book I wouldn’t normally pick up. Anyway, just my thoughts. Thanks for your podcast – I love it!
Ooh! I really like the music connection! Thank you! ♥