This isn’t the best of all pictures, I know.  However, it does reveal my pitiful classic collection.  So far I’m reading Dante’s Divine Comedy aloud to my little sister, I finished The Prince and I’m working on Paradise Lost.  Next on my list to tackle is Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and then Homer’s Iliad.

This is my personal collection and is rather misleading seeing as we have a lot of classic books in the family collection.  I haven’t really read many of them, mostly because the bulk of the reading I do now is YA for my blog, but I have been slowly working my way through all the classics everyone says you have to read.

I’m rather enjoying reading Dante aloud because right now we’re on the first book in The Divine Comedy, The Inferno, which is obviously the most famous one.  When read aloud, it is quite powerful poetry with a lot of heavy imagery.  The only problem is trying to explain to my little sister what the carnal sinners did… Continue reading →