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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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Sharpe's Christmas

Sharpe's Christmas © 2003 Bernard Cornwell 104 pages Sharpe's Christmas collects two stories which do the seemingly impossib...

Monday, December 30, 2013

The View from the Summit

The View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir from the First Person to Conquer Everest © 1999 Sir Edmund Hillary 310 pages The Hima...

Friday, December 27, 2013

The Men Who United the States

The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible ...

Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Phantom Menace

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace © 1999 Terry Brooks The Phantom Menace was the first movie in the new 'prequel' trilogy ...

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

This week: Christmas reads, science in the city, and social telegraphy

Dear readers: A blessed Yuletide and a merry Christmas to those of you in the northern hemisphere, as we celebrate the rebir...

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Blacks Rednecks and White Liberals © 2005 Thomas Sowell 360 pages Thomas Sowell's provocatively-titled Black Rednecks and White L...

Things that Matter

Things that Matter: Three Decades of Passion, Pastimes, and Politics © 2013 Charles Krauthammer 400 pages Things that Matter collec...

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