I know a lot of people do multiple reading challenges and they and they also do the five by five.

But this one for me was great because I could shop my shelves and really look and try and build categories off of that.

And then I could still buy some.

Right?

Still scratch that itch to get a new book in the mail.

My Amazon overlord will send them to me.

Welcome to Skolae sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking moms we can.

This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done.

Skolle Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully,

equips us for the task of educating

our children. I'm your host, Abby Wall, and I am joined by my friend Misty Winkler for this bonus

episode all about the Skolle Sisters Five by Five-Five Reading Challenge. So we're just going to jump into it today. And Misty, would you please tell us about how the

five by or what the five by five challenges and how it came to be? Yeah. So actually, I came up with the idea of the five by five

challenge just for myself. I was, you know, it was about this time of year, the, you know,

beginning of a new year. And I was looking at all my bookshelves of full of books that I had not

read.

And I was considering not buying any books for the coming year, making that a goal.

And just actually reading what I own.

Yeah, I realized that was a goal I was never going to keep.

So instead, I was looking at the books and thinking about how I, you know,

bought way more books than I read the previous year.

And I noticed that I, for the most part, buy books just within a few different topics, you know, a few

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