Allure of Deceit
Suspense novels about charity, religion, literacy and women fleeing control
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reading
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Friday, April 12
Reading
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Reading is a solitary activity that offers a sure guide to navigating society and our many relationships. In The Uncommon Reader by Ala...
Monday, December 18
Free thought
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In The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman, Ivy Jacob grows up in Boston, beautiful and wild, spoiled yet neglected. An unintended pregnancy pr...
Tuesday, April 7
Secret judges
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Our choices and assessments of books expose us as much as those whom we judge. Not so long ago, t hese pages noted : "If readers a...
Friday, April 3
Happiness
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Practiced in making choices, readers may be more content than non-readers, as suggested by David Hume in 1742: The good or ill accidents...
Friday, March 7
Independence
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An 1851 entry from the diary of Linka Preus of Norway, the night before her wedding: "A human being is a free and independent creatur...
Wednesday, September 11
How we read news
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Anyone who loves newspapers hopes that Jeff Bezos can innovate and revive interest in the Washington Post, the newspaper industry and da...
Wednesday, February 13
On literacy
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Illiteracy weakens societies: " it’s a mistake to think we can glide through modern life unaffected by others’ struggles with lit...
Tuesday, August 3
Old books
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A stack of old books from the library wait in the corner of my bedroom. I wonder how many people have read them before me. Did the books cha...
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