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Late Night Reading follows the books I read "late at night" since it's really the only time I have a chance to sit down and read! It will be referred to as "LNR" in future postings.

I borrowed this book from one of my friends and had a hard-time putting it down. The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition is written by E. Christian Kopff, a classicist at the University of Colorado. Kopff provides great thought-provoking chapters and strong arguments for bringing back the "classics" to help our children's education.

Here's an excerpt from Booklist...

"Contemporary Chronicles" contains profiles in classical courage drawn from academe and the movies; especially noteworthy are the sketch of classicist and Scottish nationalist Douglas Young and the considerations of The Godfather, the films of Clint Eastwood, and The Lion King as enactments of classical Greek ethical concepts. Kopff concludes with practical proposals for restoring Latin and Greek to elementary and secondary curricula and with guidance for adults who want to learn them. His clean and lively style throughout constitutes a very cogent arguing point for teaching the classical languages again: would that we all wrote this well.

I also enjoyed the story in the introduction explaining the title of the book.

The Devil Knows Latin at Amazon.com

April was a busy month and I just realized I never got a post in. I have been very busy at work and at home, so haven't had much chance to catch up on any of the extra stuff (like the family photo gallery).

Mary and I did get to see Scott Hahn in Traverse City last Saturday and he didn't disappoint. A great speaker and writer he really fires you up about the Catholic faith. If you get a chance to see him, don't miss it. I recently finished his book called The Lamb's Supper and we are going to try to start his Ignatius Catholic Study Bible series as well.

Uncle Doug celebrated his 52nd birthday on April 28th! He's doing well and loves the kids!

That's it for now, hope everyone is enjoying spring now that it's finally here!