Ayn Rand is one of my favorite authors as well, Russ. At least ONE thing we have in common. Ha! Ha!

Books played a very important part in my family. We were all avid readers, except my sister. I doubt she even knows how to read. LOL It's what I used to tell her all the time when we were kids.

Birthday and Saint Nicolas gifts were usually books. Dad even built us a library upstairs just to keep us from running up and down the stairs.

I stopped reading novels around the age of ten or eleven as I was more interested in reference books, mostly History and Geography. My interest in novels bloomed once again in my early twenties but reference books are still high on my reading list.

My first English novel was "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. My second one was "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger. I must've read this one close to fifty times and will surely read it another fifty times. Have been a fan of Salinger's works ever since.

I can't sit in a coffee shop (drinking TEA), airport -pretty much anywhere- without having something to read OR a crossword puzzle. Heck, even a soup can would do. Throw me in jail without anything to read and I'd a complete nutcase in less than 24 hours. Wait! I'm already one.

FAEbGBD, what genre do you like? Any particular authors that keep you going back for more?

Taike

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