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<\/a>My house is full of binders just like this, but this is one of my favorites.<\/p>\nI gave up personal reading during high school and college. It took me years to revive the hunger for ideas which was stamped out during those busy years. I didn’t like much of what was assigned to read during those years. I became weary from ideas of authors I didn’t admire and books I had not chosen. Of course these reading experiences had value, but I am grateful to be in a new phase of study.<\/p>\n This time of my life is a little bit like being back in school, but I love the freedom to read what I want and study as little or much as I please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you have an unlikely treasure hidden in plain sight at your house? Here’s mine: My house is full of binders just like this, but this is one of my favorites. Last year I decided to collect the notes I have taken from literature since moving to Arizona and compile them in a book for … Continue reading Angie’s Book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-homeschooling","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5150,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Last year I decided to collect the notes I have taken from literature since moving to Arizona and compile them in a book for easy reference.<\/p>\n<\/a>It’s an odd assortment of stuff; some of it is personal religious study; some of it is evidence of curiosity; many books I have studied so I can teach them. I don’t take notes on everything that I read. More often you will find my notes scribbled in the margins of my books. But there are some books which require a little more effort. This is where I keep the evidence of those efforts.<\/p>\n<\/a>I read The Republic<\/em> twice last year to make any sense of it. I made notes in columns to show the dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/a>After reading The Aeneid<\/em> and making careful summaries, I decided not to use much of the work in Paige’s study plan.<\/p>\n<\/a>This book is evidence of many elements of my life which coincide with my studies. I was a mother of a toddler at the time I was studying a text on the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<\/a>My notes from Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations<\/em> by Adam Smith were left on a chair at Spring Lake and received a good soaking from the sprinklers.<\/p>\n<\/a>After I read a book, I decide whether I want my children to study it. If so, I will often make a study plan, research commentaries, and write essay questions and sometimes worksheets. It’s not very often that I read something and discover that I can’t use it in some way in our classes.<\/p>\n