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To Read in 2017

Prompt: What books are on your Reading List for 2017?

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This question pains me because I’ll need another lifetime to read all I want to read. My Kindles have over 3000 books and the number is still growing.

What passes in front of those books, however, is this: I received three signed books from author friends. The least I should do should be to read and write reviews for them. Those three top any reading list that I can make.

Next will definitely be Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. I have it and cannot wait to read it. Then, I have several audio books I am dying to get to. Those I listen while doing other things around the house.

Not to mention I want to reread Dostoevsky, who mesmerized me during my teens. There are also several non-fiction books lined up, waiting for their turn.

Reading for me is a life jacket and oxygen. It has always been so since I learned how to read on my own at three and a half years of age. I haven’t done anything else as early and with such passion in my life, including writing. Writing rates only second to reading. Everything else comes after those two and later, much later.