Finished reading Angela’s Ashes by Fran McCourt. His musings about his miserable childhood in Ireland and how his parents should have stayed in America. He struggles to understand the world he’s growing up in, the father who inspires and fails him, the teachers who forbid him from asking questions, the Catholic priests who both condemn […]
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Currently Reading: SPQR A History of Ancient Rome
Currently reading SPQR A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard. Senatus Populus Que Romanus, “The Senate and People of Rome.” Rome still helps define the way we understand our world and think about ourselves.