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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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March 2, 2018March 9, 2018

Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff

A book that needs little introduction

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Classics, Non-Fiction, Poems  0 Comments

February 16, 2018January 7, 2018

Selected Epigrams – Martial (Translated by Susan McLean)

The first century Roman poet fills you in on just what Roman society was like. It’s not what you think.

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February 2, 2018January 29, 2018

The once and future liberal – Mark Lilla

One of the more unsurprising finger-pointing books regarding the last election, this one aims itself at identity politics.

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Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 19, 2018January 7, 2018

Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance

J.D. Vance’s hillbilly childhood was rather poor, and it may be symptomatic of what is wrong in modern America.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

January 5, 2018January 6, 2018

Words on the move – John McWhorter

John McWhorter knows what he is talking about, and in this volume he goes over much of what people not only do not understand about language, but what many so desperately need to learn about it.

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