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Reading Wednesday: Poverty, Slavery, Falconry, Angst

This week’s reading included a novel capturing early 20th century life for a child of Irish immigrants in Brooklyn, how the great evil of slavery interplayed with a range of decisions before and since our nation’s founding, and of course several Western adventures with falconry highlights mixed in, as I continue my way through CJ Box’s Joe Pickett series. And then some more classics.

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Reading Wednesday: Classic and Not-So-Classic (But Still Some of Them Excellent) Novels

This week’s reading included:

“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”

Deeply disturbing and far too accurate sentiment from Fahrenheit 451
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