All The Seas Incarnadine: Literature

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Friday, June 5, 2026

Democracy is not a noun. Democracy is a verb.

Timothy Snyder (this is a paraphrase from memory)

The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became An American Hero, by Timothy Egan
At Home, by Bill Bryson. This guy's never written a bad book
Ray Bradbury: Every one of his books.
Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat. Mowat was a naturalist and historian well worth finding and reading.
Dean Koontz. His Odd Thomas novels, and anything else you can get your hands on.
palteringfools.blogspot.com My other blog
The Essential Rumi, Translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke A Translation from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly
Project Gutenberg, a source for free e-books, pre 1926.
Old Junk by H.M. Tomlinson, essays and sketches find at Project Gutenburg, or library
The Daily Kos. Not a book, but a fascinating website
'Pipefuls' by Christopher Morley. Collected essays. Great reading. Find it free at Project Gutenberg.
'Essays of E.B. White' By E.B. White
'Darwin's Century', 'The Star Thrower', 'The Immense Journey', and everything else by Loren Eiseley
'Parnassus on Wheels' and 'The Haunted Bookshop' Both by Christopher Morley. For those who love books, reading, and good storytelling.
'The Hinges of History' series by Thomas Cahill
'By Hook or by Crook, A Journey in Search of English' By David Crystal- A fascinating history of our language