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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Sunday, September 29, 2013

This week at the library: bikes, Greeks, stuff, and eeeeeevil

Dear readers: September's winding-down for me has been busy for me, and especially today. All three meals were taken with friends whi...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Field Grey

Field Grey © 2011 Phillip Kerr 384 pages Bernie Gunther survived Hitler's Germany and a Soviet prison camp, so when he's forc...

Home Economics

Home Economics © 1987 Wendell Berry 192 pages The term economics originally referred to household management, and to Wendell Berry, th...

The Working Poor

The Working Poor: Invisible in America © 2004 David Shipler 352 pages "Like my daddy used to say -- 'Son, life's hell ...

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Free to Choose, Born to Buy (and Left to Die)

In the past two weeks I've been reading a series of books which connected together despite being on disparate subjects. Milton Fried...

Saturday, September 21, 2013

The Sky is Not the Limit

The Sky is not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist © 2004 Neil deGrasse Tyson 203 pages How does a young b...

Friday, September 20, 2013

The Disappearance of Childhood

The Disappearance of Childhood ©1982 Neil Postman 177 pages Television is killing your children -- conceptually. In 1985, Neil Postm...

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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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