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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Thursday, April 19, 2018

A Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England

A Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England © 2014 Ian Mortimer 415 pages Previously Ian Mortimer has offered readers with ac...

Monday, April 16, 2018

The Birth of Britain

History of the English Speaking Peoples, Vol 1: The Birth of Britain 521 pages © 1956 Sir Winston Churchill I've been reading fr...

Sunday, April 15, 2018

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack

Hello, dear readers! For the past week I've secretly been running around northern Arizona, leaving you with some scheduled posts in my a...

Thursday, April 12, 2018

A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War

A Hobbit, A Wardrobe, and a Great War © 2014 Joseph Loconte 256 pages When some future Gibbon writes of the Decline and Fall of Weste...

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Further Up and Further In

Further Up and Further In: Understanding Narnia © 2018 Joseph Pearce 200 pages ”The further up and the further in you go, the bigger ...

Sunday, April 8, 2018

The Letters of CS Lewis

Letters of C.S. Lewis © 2017 Harper Collins Edited by Warren Lewis and Walter Hooper 688 pages After the death of his younger brothe...

Friday, April 6, 2018

Rifleman Dodd and The Gun

The Gun, and Rifleman Dodd © 1933 C.S. Forester 311 pages "There was sorrow in Dodd's heart as he looked down on the pitiful...

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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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