“There is more than one way to burn a book,” Ray Bradbury once said. “And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Bradbury wrote the novel “Fahrenheit 451” about a world that systematically burned books. In late December, I resolved to try to read more books than those I review for Western North Carolina’s Smoky Mountain News. I settled on a book a month, six old and six new, though I may change that proportion in favor of older books. I’ve just finished Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” which I found difficult at first but soon came to enjoy. In those pages I was surprised to discover themes about harsh government, ambition, and cultural destruction pertinent to our own time. Next up is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel about anarchists and radicals, “The Devils,” also known as “The Demons” or “The Possessed,” depending on the translator. My own translation is …