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, March 12, 2014

This week at the library: Chimpanzees, El Niño, and simple living

This week at the library I've been working through a lull, having finished my last Stack o' Books and having not yet gotten ano...

Friday, March 7, 2014

dirt

dirt: the erosion of civilizations © 2007 Peter R. Montgomery 295 pages Civilizations rise or crumble on the soundness ...

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Look Homeward, America!

Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists © 2006 Bill Kauffman 250 pages "The Little...

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

A Place on Earth

A Place on Earth 320 pages © 1983 Wendell Berry "I ain't saying I don't believe there's a Heaven. I surely hope t...

Monday, March 3, 2014

Voyage

Voyage: A Novel of What Might have Been © 1996 Stephen Baxter 511 pages On November 22 nd , 1963, John F. Kennedy narrow...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Excerpts from "A Place on Earth"

From Wendell Berry's A Place on Earth , the story of a great flood and a terrible war. In the preacher's words the Heavenly City ...

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Look Away!

Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America © 2003 William C. Davis 496 pages While most Civil War histories concentr...

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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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