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, February 25, 2013

Railroad Stations

Railroad Stations: the Buildings that Linked the Nation © 2012 ed. David Naylor 336 pages For the past couple of weeks I've been...

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Selma

Selma: A Novel of the Civil War © 2008 Val McGee 396 pages On the cover: Sturdivant Hall, a local home-turned-museum. Today, Selm...

Friday, February 22, 2013

BTT: Libraries

BTT asks: How often do you visit a library? Do you go to borrow books? Do research? Check out the multi-media center? Hang out with the fri...

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies © 2009 Seth Grahame-Smith 319 pages Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the old story of girl meets...

Friday, February 15, 2013

Reads to Reels: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice has been subjected to several dramatizations, but the 2005 movie starring Kiera Knightly is my first. I only fini...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Booking through Thursday: Bibliophilia

This day, Booking through Thursday asks ....what do we love most about reading? In picking up a book, I can throw back the curtain of time...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The Seven Wonders

The Seven Wonders © 2012 Steven Saylor 332 pages A few years ago, I read through the Roma sub Rosa series in which a first-century ...

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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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