{"id":24799,"date":"2019-07-15T08:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T13:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24799"},"modified":"2019-07-15T06:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T11:27:33","slug":"brian-j-lacks-a-du-toitian-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/brian-j-lacks-a-du-toitian-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian J. Lacks A du Toitian Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit has posted a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2019\/07\/13\/reading-lists\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">things he encouraged his children to read<\/a> while homeschooling them.<\/p>\n<p>A list of books?  <em>That&#8217;s a quiz!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So how do I do compared to a du Toit?<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I will bold the things I&#8217;ve read and underline the things I own but have not yet read.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>1984<\/i> George Orwell<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>Animal Farm<\/i> George Orwell<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Of Civil Government<\/i> John Locke<\/li>\n<li><i>On Liberty<\/i> John Stuart Mill<\/li>\n<li><i>Our Enemy, The State<\/i> Albert Jay Nock<\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Prince<\/i> Niccolo Machiavelli<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Basic Economics<\/i> Charles Sowell<\/li>\n<li><i>The Wealth of Nations<\/i> Adam Smith<\/li>\n<li><i>From Dawn To Decadence<\/i> Jacques Barzun<\/li>\n<li><i>Heroes<\/i> Paul Johnson<\/li>\n<li><i>A History Of The American People <\/i>Paul Johnson<\/li>\n<li><i>A History Of The Jews <\/i>Paul Johnson<\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Iliad<\/i><\/b> Homer<\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Odyssey<\/i><\/b> Homer<\/li>\n<li><i>The Proud Tower <\/i>Barbara Tuchman<\/li>\n<li><b>United States Declaration of Independence<\/b><\/li>\n<li>The Articles of Confederation<\/li>\n<li>United States Constitution<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u>The Federalist Papers<\/u><\/li>\n<li><i>Carnage And Culture<\/i> Victor Davis Hanson<\/li>\n<li><i>The First World War<\/i> Martin Gilbert (or John Keegan)<\/li>\n<li><i>A History Of Warfare<\/i> John Keegan<\/li>\n<li><i>The Second World War<\/i> John Keegan<\/li>\n<li><i>A War Like No Other<\/i> Victor Davis Hanson<\/li>\n<li><b>The Bible<\/b> (The NIV, so one of the short ones)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Book of Journeyman<\/i> Albert Jay Nock<\/li>\n<li><i><u>Confessions<\/i><\/u> St. Augustine<\/li>\n<li><i>Essays Moral and Political<\/i> David Hume<\/li>\n<li><i>Intellectuals<\/i> Paul Johnson<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/29\/book-report-meditations-by-marcus-aurelius-classics-club-edition\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Meditations<\/a><\/i> Marcus Aurelius<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Memoirs of a Superfluous Man<\/i> Albert Jay Nock<\/li>\n<li><b><i>The Republic<\/i> Plato<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Summa Theologica<\/i> St. Thomas Aquinas<\/li>\n<li><i>Coriolanus<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li><i><b>Hamlet<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i><b>Julius Caesar<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>King Lear<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Macbeth<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i>Othello<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Richard III<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li><i><b>Romeo &#038; Juliet<\/i> William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>Billy Liar <\/i>Keith Waterhouse<\/li>\n<li><i><u>Faust<\/i><\/u> Goethe<\/li>\n<li><i>The Importance of Being Earnest <\/i>Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li><i><u>Lysistrata<\/i><\/u> Aristophanes<\/li>\n<li><i>&#8216;Tis A Pity She\u2019s A Whore<\/i> John Ford<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Waiting For Godot<\/b><\/i> Samuel Becket<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;The Eagle&#8221;, &#8220;Charge Of The Light Brigade&#8221; Alfred, Lord Tennyson<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Dover Beach&#8221; Matthew Arnold<\/b><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Soldier&#8221; Rupert Brook<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner&#8221; Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/b>\n<li>&#8220;The Good Morrow&#8221; and <b>&#8220;A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning&#8221;<\/b> John Donne (I&#8217;m not sure if the first is in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/book-report-selected-poems-by-john-donne-1958\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Selected Poems<\/a><\/em> I read in 2011, and I can&#8217;t find it quickly to see.)<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Ode To A Nightingale&#8221; John Keats<\/b> (If not now, then by the time I finish the complete works I&#8217;ve been working on for a year or so).<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;The Gods Of The Copybook Headings&#8221; Rudyard Kipling<\/b> (I haven&#8217;t alluded to it in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/brian-j-the-gods-of-copybook-headings-and-smelt-fishing\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a whole week<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;To Althea, From Prison&#8221; Richard Lovelace<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Sonnets by William Shakespeare<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Ozymandias&#8221; Percy Bysshe Shelley<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221; Walt Whitman<\/b><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Tintern Abbey&#8221;, &#8220;The Solitary Reaper&#8221; William Wordsworth <\/li>\n<li><b><i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/i><\/b> Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li><u><i>Alice In Wonderland<\/i><\/u> \u2014 Lewis Carroll<\/li>\n<li><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/22\/book-report-the-grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck-1939\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Grapes of Wrath<\/a><\/i> John Steinbeck<\/b><\/li>\n<li><i>The American<\/i> Henry James<\/li>\n<li><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/book-report-anna-karenina-by-leo-tolstoy-1877-1992\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anna Karenina<\/a><\/i><\/b> Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n<li><u>As I Lay Dying<\/u> William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i><\/b> Ray Bradbury<\/li>\n<li><i>A Handful of Dust<\/i> Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n<li>The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n<li><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/book-report-the-count-of-monte-cristo-by-alexandre-dumas-1844-1846-1999\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Count Of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/i> Alexandre Dumas<\/b><\/li>\n<li><u><i>Don Quixote<\/i><\/u> Cervantes<\/li>\n<li><b><i>A Farewell To Arms<\/i><\/b> Ernest Hemingway<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Emma<\/i><\/b> Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li><b><i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i><\/b> Harper Lee<\/li>\n<li><i>The Invisible Man<\/i> H.G. Wells<\/li>\n<li><i>Zorba the Greek<\/i> Nikos Kazantzakis<\/li>\n<li><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/book-report-gullivers-travels-by-jonathan-swift-1948\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/a><\/i><\/b> Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n<li><u><i>The Mayor Of Casterbridge<\/i><\/u> Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n<li><u><i>The Sound and the Fury<\/i><\/u> William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li><i>Fathers and Sons<\/i> Ivan Turgenev<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Stranger in a Strange Land<\/i><\/b> Robert A. Heinlein<\/li>\n<li><i><u>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/u><\/i> Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<li><i>Carry On, Jeeves<\/i> P. G. Wodehouse<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Lord Of The Flies<\/i><\/b> William Golding<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Crime and Punishment<\/i><\/b> Feodor Dostoyevsky<\/li>\n<li><i>Madame Bovary<\/i> Gustave Flaubert<\/li>\n<li>The Harry Potter Stories by J.K Rowling<\/li>\n<li><i>Women In Love<\/i> D.H. Lawrence<\/li>\n<li>The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (probably not all of them, but I did read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/book-report-the-return-of-sherlock-holmes-by-arthur-conan-doyle-1905-1991\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Return of Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/em> this year.)<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Catch-22<\/i><\/b> Joseph Heller<\/li>\n<li><i>The Portrait Of A Lady<\/i> Henry James<\/li>\n<li><i>The Wind In The Willows<\/i> Kenneth Grahame<\/li>\n<li><i>Rebecca<\/i> Daphne du Maurier<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Robinson Crusoe<\/i><\/b> Daniel Defoe<\/li>\n<li><i>Sons And Lovers<\/i> D.H. Lawrence<\/li>\n<li><i>Uhuru<\/i> Robert Ruark<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/22\/book-report-stories-of-suspense-1963-1967\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Birds<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;Don\u2019t Look Now&#8221; Daphne du Maurier<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Snows of Kilimanjaro&#8221;, &#8220;The Killers&#8221; Ernest Hemingway (likely, but I&#8217;m not 100% sure.)<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/book-report-selected-tales-and-poems-by-edgar-allan-poe-1927-1943\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pit And The Pendulum<\/a>&#8221; Edgar Allan Poe<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Bartleby the Scrivener&#8221; Herman Melville<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&#8221; Ambrose Bierce<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/book-report-kipling-a-selection-of-his-stories-and-poems-volume-i-by-rudyard-kipling-edited-by-john-beecroft-1956\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Jungle Books<\/a><\/i> Rudyard Kipling<\/b><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Good Man Is Hard to Find&#8221;, &#8220;Good Country People&#8221; Flannery O\u2019Connor (although perhaps they&#8217;re in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/good-book-hunting-august-30-2008\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a collection I bought in 2008<\/a> and deserve an underline.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Boule de Suif&#8221;, &#8220;<b>The Necklace<\/b>&#8221; Guy de Maupassant (although I also have a collection of his gathering dust which might mean the first need underlining.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty&#8221;, &#8220;The Unicorn in the Garden&#8221; James Thurber<\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<b>The Gift Of The Magi<\/b>&#8220;, &#8220;The Cop And The Anthem&#8221; O. Henry<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Where I\u2019m Calling From&#8221;, &#8220;Little Things&#8221; Raymond Carver<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sredni Vashtar&#8221;, &#8220;The East Wing&#8221; Saki<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mountain Victory&#8221;, &#8220;A Rose For Emily&#8221; William Faulkner<\/li>\n<li><i>Ars Amatoria<\/i> Ovid<\/li>\n<li><i>Delta Of Venus<\/i> Ana\u00efs Nin<\/li>\n<li><i><u>Lady Chatterley\u2019s Lover<\/u><\/i> D.H. Lawrence<\/li>\n<li><i>Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure (or Fanny Hill)<\/i> John Cleland<\/li>\n<li><i>The School of Whoredom<\/i> Pietro Aretino<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How did I do?<\/p>\n<p><em>Not good enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Especially since I have not made much progress in thirteen years on improving my score on the list of Kim du Toit&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/09\/because-its-a-literary-list-thats-why\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">favorite short stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim du Toit has posted a list of things he encouraged his children to read while homeschooling them. A list of books? That&#8217;s a quiz! So how do I do compared to a du Toit? Once again, I will bold the things I&#8217;ve read and underline the things I own but have not yet read. 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