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This Reader's Digest, July 2013
Big reading month for me. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly, with some commentary. I get apathetic about rewriting what is easily Googleable, so no plot summaries. Unreservèd recommendations are marked with a star. *The Little Way of Ruthie Leming Rod Dreher A truly unique project. Dreher’s book rarely strays beyond the borders of…
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The Times: New Roman Empire
“Amnesia is frightening and pitiful because the amnesiac does not know who she is; when she recovers her memory she recovers her identity. The same, mutatis mutandis, is true for peoples; their beliefs about their origins and histories contribute crucially to their sense of their existence as a people and of what sort people they…
