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, October 26, 2016

Week of Enchantment: Tourists, Sharks, and Gardens, oh my!

Emerging from the natural history hours later, and returning to old town, I discovered that everyone else had woken up and joined me. ...

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Short rounds: explosives and Martians

Tonight I finally gave up on Hayduke Lives! , the sequel to Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang . The plot only arrives four-fifths o...

Reads to Reels: Brave Cowboy/Lonely are the Brave

Lonely are the Brave dramatizes Edward Abbey's Brave Cowboy, and I daresay improves upon it. As with Abbey's original, the pl...

Friday, October 21, 2016

The Brave Cowboy

The Brave Cowboy: An Old Tale in a New Time © 1956 Edward Abbey 277 pages "Where're your papers?" "My what?...

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

West of the Revolution

West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 © 2015 Claudio Saunt 288 pages In 1776, the bid of thirteen colonies for indepen...

Monday, October 17, 2016

Week of Enchantment: Epic? Nay, MAMMOTH!

The natural history museum in downtown Albuquerque is monstrously big, and after arriving at its service doors I made my way around the ...

Week of Enchantment: Takin' that Left Turn at Albuquerque

Ever since I arrived in Albuequerque, I'd be haunted by the constant din of traffic. I entered town in the middle of it, and remained...

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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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