Classical music

Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture

CARMEN Prelude by Bizet

Handel - Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus

If these are the only pieces of "classical music" that I like.... does that mean I'm really a person who "appreciates" classical music?? I think not.

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
The Analects by Confucius
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone by Sophocles
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae by Euripides
The Histories by Herodotus
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Feodor Dostoyevsky
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Native Son by Richard Wright
Black Boy by Richard Wright

Princess Doodlebug's favorite

Below are the books that I read to Princess Doodlebug today. After we read each book, I asked her what her favorite part of the book was. I listed them below the titles of the book.

Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
When they got to the new town

Paddington
When he fell asleep

A Tree is Nice
The pictures

The Princess and the Pea
when they got married

Blueberries for Sal
when Sal and Baby Bear got mixed up

Hedgehog, Pig and their Sweet Little Friend
when Sweet little pig found his momma

Ballet Kitty
when she found her slippers

The Story of Babar
when he found the new city

Engine, Engine Number Nine
when they went back home at the end of the day

Because a Little Bug went Ka-CHOO!!
the cute bug

Anansi the Spider
when the fish swallowed the father spider

Ferdinand
when he smelled the flowers

Always Room for One More
when the house exploded

The Swan book
when the people realized that the lady wasn't a witch