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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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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Castles of Steel

Castles of Steel © 2004 Robert K. Massie 880 pages Everyone’s recipe for cooking up the First World War is slightly different, but o...

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The Rise and Fall of KHAAAAAAAN! Volume II

The Eugenics Wars: the Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume II © Greg Cox 2001 434 pages Having seized power in India and c...

Top Ten Authors Who Live in my Stacks

This week's top ten topic is an interesting one; authors we own the most books of. For the most part there's a gulf between the a...

Monday, July 28, 2014

This week: war, war, war

This past week has been a quiet one, as I've been devotedly reading through Castles of Steel , an 800+ page history of the naval war bet...

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Fighting Traffic

Fighting Traffic : The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City © 2008 Peter Norton 396 pages Stroll into the middle of any America...

Monday, July 21, 2014

This week: Huck Finn and a world at war

Without intending to, this past week I read two science fiction novels that both concerned human genetic engineering, neither featuring it ...

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Rise and Fall of KHAAAAAAAAAN! Volume I

Star Trek Eugenic Wars: the Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume I © 2001 Greg Cox 520 pages Ah, how well I remember the 1990s ...

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