{"id":940,"date":"2011-05-12T22:19:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T23:28:29","slug":"summer-reading-list-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading List &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that summer is officially several (five) weeks away, I&#8217;ve planned my slightly overly ambitious summer reading list. \u00a0It contains some new material, some classics and an old favorite. \u00a0I am hoping to make it through the stack before the end of August. \u00a0If you know what a typical day here entails for the family of six, one-room school house, that doubles as an organic mini-farm in the summer &#8230; you won&#8217;t be at all surprised if I am still at the top of the stack as the calendar turns over to September. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_941\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chloepoppins.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0263.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-941\" class=\"size-large wp-image-941\" title=\"Summer '11 Reading List\" src=\"http:\/\/chloepoppins.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0263-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chloepoppins.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0263-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/chloepoppins.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0263-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chloepoppins.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_0263.jpg 1504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Summer 2011 Stack<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>So, what&#8217;s in the Summer Stack 2011?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watership Down, by Richard Adams \u00a0 <em>#1 will be reading this for a literature analysis during the 2011-12 school year.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Motherhood, by Sally Clarkson \u00a0<em>This is the one I started today. \u00a0I won&#8217;t be reading this in order. \u00a0I&#8217;ve read others of Sally Clarkson&#8217;s books and am looking forward to this one.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter \u00a0<em>This was my grandfather&#8217;s favorite book growing up. \u00a0I never thought that I would actually find a copy, but the IU press printed it a few years ago because G. Porter was a native of Indiana. \u00a0I started this one last year, but I am looking forward to learning a little more about my grandfather and enjoying his favorite story.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Boys Should Be Boys, by Meg Meeker M.D. \u00a0<em>Obviously this is true. \u00a0I think I bought this one to help me figure out exactly how that works &#8230; ha! \u00a0Good luck. \u00a0Never having been a boy, I feel I&#8217;m at a disadvantage here.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Orczy \u00a0<em>#1 will be reading this one next year too, and I&#8217;ve always wanted to read it. \u00a0So, this year &#8230; I will.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Vanishing Comrade, by Ethel Cook Eliot \u00a0<em>This is one of my all time favorite books. \u00a0My sister found a copy for me several years ago. \u00a0When we were growing up, we only had one copy in the house and it was my mom&#8217;s. \u00a0The book was written in the &#8217;30&#8217;s, but it is a wonderful story. \u00a0I am looking forward to reading this one again and may even read it out loud to #2. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s right up her alley.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Windboy, \u00a0by Ethel Cook Elliot \u00a0<em>Imagine my surprise when I found another book by Ms. Eliot. \u00a0I bought it on the spot at the consignment store; I don&#8217;t think the previous owner even read it. \u00a0Love the picture on the front, it reminds me of passages in The Vanishing Comrade. \u00a0Looking forward to another good story from Ms. Eliot.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that summer is officially several (five) weeks away, I&#8217;ve planned my slightly overly ambitious summer reading list. \u00a0It contains some new material, some classics and an old favorite. \u00a0I am hoping to make it through the stack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/?p=940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-education","category-life-on-the-farm","category-summer-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chloepoppins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}