Reading Freely

Pursuing the flourishing life and human liberty through literature.
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass

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Monday, December 31, 2012

Sparkly Hayek

Yesterday I finished my last read for 2012, which was... Twilight . Yes, the sparkly-vampires-playing-baseball book. I read it as a joke. It...

The Great Railroad Revolution

The Great Railroad Revolution: A History of Trains in America © 2012 Christian Wolmar 448 pages The United States ’ history is one ...

Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games © 2008 Suzanne Collins 378 pages Once every year, two teenagers are chosen at random to represent t...

Friday, December 28, 2012

Hamlet's Blackberry

Hamlet's Blackberry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age © 2011 William Powers 288 pages Getting online used to require sitti...

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Racketeer

The Racketeer © 2012 John Grisham 340 pages Malcolm Bannister is a largely unsuccessful lawyer who was imprisoned by an overly aggres...

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Riding Rockets

Riding Rockets: the Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut © 2007 Mike Mullane 400 pages Mike Mullane is a shuttle astronaut...

Friday, December 21, 2012

The Humans Who Went Extinct

The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived © 2010 Clive Finlayson 256 pages Whatever happened to the Nea...

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Stephen: A young fogey at work in a small-town library, enjoying the good life of a historic community.

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