I work in a university library; have two daughters (21 and 26); spend all my free time reading; just starting to draw and paint again; and am yearning to travel. I read nearly anything that comes my way, although I'm not usually drawn to science-fiction or horror or chick-lit. I've recently discovered South American writing that takes me to new...
more »I work in a university library; have two daughters (21 and 26); spend all my free time reading; just starting to draw and paint again; and am yearning to travel. I read nearly anything that comes my way, although I'm not usually drawn to science-fiction or horror or chick-lit. I've recently discovered South American writing that takes me to new places, especially through the magical realism genre - love it! And, because I'm Dutch and spent my early years in Holland, I try to read as much translated Dutch fiction as I can.
Because there is no other way, on this site, to make a note of authors I wish to read, I will list them here for my reference: Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Salman Rushdie, John Irving , Rohinton Mistry, Michael Ondaatje, J.M. Coetzee, Mark Helprin, Philip Roth, Carol Shields...
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." ~ Thomas Carlyle
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