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Favorite authorsCharlotte Brontë, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Salman Rushdie, John Steinbeck, J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy (Shared favorites)

About meIn an effort to make myself 'better read' in addition to my usual 'reads a lot' I began to read through the 2003 BBC list of top 100 books. Not because I particularity rate this list or like lists in general but I see it as a useful tool for encouraging me to read more widely in 2009.

Typical of the first casualty of war; the plan, has gone awry. I’m one of life’s easily distracted but enthusiastic pupils, so I read one Russian novel, then I’m off .....must read all I own....lets buy many more, then, be it Rushdie and India or Dickens and some decrepit English city, I’m again running down that alley......

This entire alley running is fun; as 2009 starts to close it has seen me read more widely, the original task, a useful tool to my mind, has enriched my life.

Tolstoy, Rushdie, Steinbeck, Dickens, Dostoevsky and others are newly met fellow travellers along my road, can’t wait to see who is loitering around the corner.

Just finished

War and Peace
The Karamazov Brothers
Midnight's Children
Anna Karenina
Crime & Punishment

Currently Reading

A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924
American Tabloid

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Currently readingA People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality (Penguin Press Science) by Brian Greene