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The books I read to my son last year
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A literary summer reading guide
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18
Living a hidden life
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50
Make badly and suffer gladly
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12
Improving ourselves to death (or why you should stop reading self-help books)
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10
Why (and how) to plan your reading in 2025
 • Mark Casper
5
The Good Life Cannot Be Optimized
Secular monks on the precipice of burnout
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Living a hidden life
Embracing obscurity, living coram Deo, and pursuing "true success" with Beth March
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Mark Casper
50
The books I read to my son last year
The beginning of a grand, literary adventure
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Mark Casper
30
Healing the bright wound
On the "uselessness" and indispensability of art, cracking the Machine's cage, Dead Poets Society, and being smote by beauty.
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Mark Casper
5
Improving ourselves to death (or why you should stop reading self-help books)
On living in a self-improvement culture, secular monks, utilitarian pragmatism, and the novel in the workplace
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Mark Casper
10
Why (and how) to plan your reading in 2025
Reading as stewardship, a simple reading strategy, and some books I hope to read this year
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Mark Casper
5
My Favorite Books from 2024
It was a strange, strange reading year indeed
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Mark Casper
6
The Kingswood
The Kingswood
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Inkwell
Inkwell
Inkwell
After Babel
After Babel
Jon Haidt
The Abbey of Misrule
The Abbey of Misrule
Paul Kingsnorth
School of the Unconformed
School of the Unconformed
Ruth Gaskovski
THE ROSE FIRE
THE ROSE FIRE
Paul J. Pastor
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