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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 28, 2025

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So, what are you reading?

I'm adding Lewis' The Screwtape Letters to my list.

I've been motoring through books lately.

Read Eig's biography of Muhammed Ali. Brilliant work, Eig is really the platonic ideal of a serious mainstream biographer. He does a perfect job of writing a well sourced well researched book that is neither hagiography nor hit piece, that shows the controversies and conflicts of Ali's life while also showing the heroism. Ali himself is such an important figure in American history, part Forrest Gump and part Martin Luther King. I enjoyed it so much I immediately started Eig's biography of MLK Jr. Both are fascinating. I never realized just how much Ali's management stole from him, nor just how evil the Nation of Islam really was. We remember them today as quirky dudes in bow ties, but they were both so much more ignorant and so much more evil than that.

Read Hemingway's A Movable Feast. I love Hemingway, and the book was great. So many things in it that we typically think started much later.

Started Stoner on audiobook from its wide reputation. It's well written, but I can't manage to get into it. Idk, it's short, so no harm done to grind through it.

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