Leslie tagged me. Here goes:
Imagine that a local philanthropist is hosting an event for local high school students and has asked you to pick out five to ten books to hand out as door prizes. At least one book should be funny and at least one book should provide some history of Western Civilization and at least one book should have some regional connection. The philanthropist doesn’t like foul language (but will allow some four-letter words in context, such as expressed during battle by soldiers). Otherwise things are pretty wide open. What do you pick?
Perfection Salad
Where the Girls Are
The Gallery of Regrettable Foods
Families Where Grace is in Place
The Body Project
For Your Own Good (maybe not for high schoolers)
On the Study Methods of Our Time
Attitudes toward History
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Lots of interesting choices! I love your Regrettable Foods choice! LOl! But these two, which I’ve never heard of before, look the most intriguing:
For Your Own Good
On the Study Methods of Our Time (“takes up the contemporary “quarrel between the ancients and the moderns” and provides a highly interesting statement of the nature of humanistic education.”)
I may end up ordering those two.
Well, Alice Miller is a big critic of punitive parenting, but her book offers few solutions. It is eye-opening though!!
And Vico’s just a fav of mine. As a HSer, I think you’d like it!