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, June 2, 2014

The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad © 2006 Margaret Atwood 224 pages Which is worse, waiting twenty years for a rascal of a husband to r...

This week at the library: Civil War and Sea People

Dear readers: This weekend I finally posted comments for Away Down South , completing my unintentional miniseries of Books Whose Titles Ca...

Sunday, June 1, 2014

The Burden of Southern History

The Burden of Southern History © 1960, 1968, 1970 C. Vann Wordward 250 pages Louisiana State University Press The publicatio...

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Away Down South

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity © 2007 James C. Cobb 416 pages What does it mean to be southern, bey...

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Who Killed Homer?

Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom © 1998 Victor Davis Hanson 290 pages For hundr...

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Ten in the life of Sharpe

Since 2010 I have been steadily reading through Sharpe's series, a set of historical novels following the storied career of the fictiona...

Teaser Tuesday

Marvin interrupted. "Suppose I don't want to spend my life on anti-Communist work but I feel -- a calling to fight the Communis...

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