007 An interview with Anthony Coafield of Living Book Press
007 An interview with Anthony Coafield of Living Book Press
Charlotte Mason, traumatic brain injuries, quirks of publishing, and reading gravestones...
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Time Sensitive Announcement!
We talk about this at the very end of the episode, but Charlotte Mason's Home Education Series audiobooks are still available to support through Kickstarter! If the goal pre-sells are not reached then the project will not proceed which will be such a loss for the world (I don’t just say that dramatically, I truly believe it).
Please check out the campaign now and pre-order if you can! I’m so looking forward to my dyslexic teen being able to listen to Ourselves when we start reading it this fall and the riches being so much more accessible for her. At the time of this episode airing there are three days left in the campaign.
Anthony is currently running a giveaway on his site to win a hardcover set of books as well as an audiobook set and the giveaway’s open to everyone! So generous! Be sure to enter!
Books reviewed in this episode:
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The Digging-est Dog by Al Perkins
Lawrence Block crime books (Anthony’s favorites)
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier (Ambre wasn’t imaging the title after all!)
C. K. Thompson Books
Marco Polo by Manuel Komroff
Book of Marvels by Richard Halliburton
How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Children's Books by Joan Bodger
Books Mentioned:
Parables from Nature by Mrs. Margaret Gatty
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore
Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall
Pharaoh's Boat by David Weitzman
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
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007 An interview with Anthony Coafield of Living Book Press
I really enjoyed this episode. I wanted to thank you specifically for being so open about your health, and particularly your mental health struggles. It's really refreshing as I think many of us listening are working to heal from the past while trying to parent young kids. Thanks for not sugar-coating your struggles! Also, maybe you could do an episode about the intersection between books and mental health. I know it comes up in the background of episodes, but perhaps a more focused discussion on that topic would be interesting, i.e. which books you found healing at different times in your lives and why, etc. Thanks! Keep up the great work!
How did I completely miss this episode when it was released??? Maybe it was because my brain isn't reliable...
I had no idea that Anthony also had a head injury and is still dealing with the consequences, years later. My own Traumatic Brain Injury occurred 4.5 years ago, and the Post Concussion Syndrome is still a major issue in my life and the lives of my husband and children. I'm just glad most of my children were adults; this experience has perhaps been the hardest on the youngest of our 5 sons, who had recently turned 13 when I fell, and on our adult daughter, who became his primary home educator and surrogate mom.
I completely understand Anthony's struggles he experienced with high school studies (after being super smart prior to the injury), with establishing regular employment, and with being sidelined for days or weeks or months by stressful or unpredictable situations. It is tough to not feel like a functional adult, and to feel like there's so little one can contribute to the family economy. It's also frustrating to struggle so much to read print books since my injury; keep the audiobooks coming, Anthony!