May

5/1 The Killing (1956) 5/2 The Story of the Church, Walter Russell Bowie Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen (finished) ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 5/3 The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers The Chinese Maze Murders, Paul, Walter Wangerin, Jr. 5/4 A Heap O’ Livin’, Edgar A. Guest 5/5 The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Poems that Make Grown Men Cry, ed. Anthony Holden and Ben Holden 5/6 The Story of the Church, Walter Russell Bowie Delivered from the Elements of the World, Peter J. Leithart The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis Rudyard Kipling’s Verse THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT 5/7 Church History, Eusebius Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare The Chinese Maze Murders, Robert Van Gulik THE SIMPSONS 5/8 5/9 Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolen 5/10 When Do Teachers Teach? H. Clay Trumbull The Chinese Maze Murders, Robert Van Gulik DERRY GIRLS 5/11 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt The Chinese Maze Murders, Robert Van Gulik The Odyssey, trans. Emily Wilson DERRY GIRLS 5/12 The Chinese Maze Murders, Robert Van Gulik (finished) The Three Mulla-Mulgars, Walter de la Mare 5/13 The Story of the Church, Walter Russell Bowie The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis DERRY GIRLS 5/14 The Story of the Church, Walter Russell Bowie (finished) 5/17 The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers 5/19 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers Anabasis, Xenophon Past and Present, Thomas Carlyle Essays in Idleness, Agnes Repplier The Wizard of Oz (1939) DERRY GIRLS 5/20 Christendom and the Nations, James B. Jordan Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt HORATIO HORNBLOWER 5/21 Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper Traffic, Tom Vanderbilt (finished) DERRY GIRLS 5/22 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Pastor, ed. William H. Willimon The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers Anabasis, Xenophon On Earth as it is in Heaven, Peter J. Leithart Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper You Can Write Children’s Books, Tracey E. Dils HORNBLOWER THE SIMPSONS 5/23 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Pastor, ed. William H. Willimon The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers Anabasis, Xenophon On Earth as it is in Heaven, Peter J. Leithart Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper The Three Mulla-Mulgars, Walter de la Mare School Education, Charlotte Mason The Killing (1956) 5/24 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Pastor, ed. William H. Willimon On Earth as it is in Heaven, Peter J. Leithart A Philosophy of Education, Charlotte Mason Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper DERRY GIRLS 5/25 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Pastor, ed. William H. Willimon Anabasis, Xenophon Essays in Idleness, Agnes Reppelier Tried & True, Daniel B. Coupland (finished) Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien 5/26 You Can Write Children’s Books, Tracey E. Dils Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper 5/27 “Death in the Age of Instagram,” Jeremy Atherton Lin Over Sea, Under Stone, Susan Cooper (finished) 5/29 The Desk Drawer Anthology, ed. Longworth and Roosevelt Pastor, ed. William H. Willimon (finished) You Can Write Children’s Books, Tracey E. Dils (finished) The Three Mulla-Mulgars, Walter de la Mare The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss HORATIO HORNBLOWER: LOYALTY COMMUNITY 5/30 The Lord’s Service, Jeff Meyers The Three Mulla-Mulgars, Walter de la Mare The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss “The Lost Tools of Learning,” Dorothy L. Sayers The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes, ed. Max Hastings The Early Church, Henry Chadwick COMMUNITY 5/31 “The Acceleration of Tranquility,” Mark Helprin Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Douglas Wilson Bob James, Rameau COMMUNITY