- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
- Seeking a Little Truth
- The Social Porcupine
- Inspire Virtue
- Classics Considered
- With Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
- The Inquisitive Biologist
- Relevant Obscurity
- Trek Lit Reviews
- Stoic Meditations
- A Pilgrim in Narnia
- Gently Mad
- The Frugal Chariot
- The Historians' Manifesto
- Classical Carousel
- Lydia Schoch
- The Classics Club
- Fanda Classiclit
- Reading In Between the Life
- The Bilbiphibian
Archives
Meta
Category Archives: General
Snowed in
For the second time in as many months, we’ve received a hearty dose of snow and ice. This time seems to have been much more disruptive, as roads have been shut down completely. Last month ice wasn’t too bad, but … Continue reading
Posted in General
24 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Meant To Read But Didn’t Actually
This week the Broke and Bookish are tackling books they meant to read last year, but didn’t. Well, so am I. 1. India: A History & China: A History, John Keay These were on the short list for last year’s … Continue reading
Podcast of the week: Amazon, Google, and Facebook as the new monopolies
Last Monday, EconTalk posted an interview about the ‘new monoplies’, in which host Russ Robert spoke with Matt Stoller about the increasing danger of Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Stoller is of the opinion that three companies are not only so … Continue reading
Announcing: Peoples of the Americas
In the past few years I’ve explored the Middle East and Asia; for 2018, I am moving closer to home with “Peoples of the Americas”. With it, I hope to remedy my ignorance of the United States’ southern neighbors (save … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Central America, Native America, Peoples of the Americas series, South America
6 Comments
What I Read in 2017
Updated for the last time last night, here’s 2017 in books! As usual, titles in bold were favorites. — January — 1. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves; P.G. Wodehouse (Comedy) 2. Ask a Science Teacher, Larry Scheckel (Science) 3. The Twilight War: the Secret History of America’s Thirty … Continue reading
A journey’s end
A few minutes ago, I finished Jawaharlal Nehru’s The Discovery of India, and completed my Discovery of Asia series, or challenge, for 2017. My goal was to read two books per month on Asian history or culture, primarily Indian and … Continue reading
Top Ten Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2018
This week le Broke and le Bookish are doing books they’re looking forward to in 2018, either as new releases or just-getting-around-to-reading-it titles. 1. Frank Sinatra: The Chairman, James Kaplan This has been on my to-read list since …er, September … Continue reading
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Books from 2017 (so far)
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from the Broke and the Bookish concerns favorite books for the year, and while there’s still a chance that some amazing book could pop up in the last two weeks of the year, I’ll go … Continue reading
Eleven Trucking Songs
Inspired by A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, which alternated between writing about driving big trucks and listening to country music….here are eleven country songs about driving trucks! There are more out there, but I’ve collected these over the years. The ones … Continue reading
Classics Club, Year III
Two years have passed since I declared I was taking the Classics Club challenge, and posted my own list of fifty classics to read. I’ve since read 20 classics, which means I am on schedule — just. Most of that … Continue reading
Reading Freely 