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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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Walkable Cities

Walkable Cities: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time © 2012 Jeff Speck 312 pages For most of human history, cities w...

Home from Nowhere

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century © 1998 James Howard Kunstler 320 pages "History doesn't b...

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Teaser Tuesday (29 January)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event in which particpants share excerpts from their current reads. Play along at Should Be Reading! Now we ai...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

This week at the library: Little Ice Age, and Bernard Cornwell

Last night I finished Battleflag , third in the Nathaniel Starbuck series. Seeing as I just finished and commented on Copperhead , posti...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Copperhead

Copperhead: Ball's Bluff, 1862 © 1993 Bernard Cornwell 417 pages Nathaniel Starbuck is a man with a mighty grumpy enemy. Wealt...

Friday, January 11, 2013

This week at the Library: Hunger Games, Hunting, and Baseball

I started this year off by finishing The Hunger Games : its finale, Mockingjay, utterly consumed my attention. It's the story of rev...

Monday, January 7, 2013

The Best of 2012

Previous Wrap-Ups: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 Another year has come and gone, and once again it’s time to refl...

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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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