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John Lawton - Blackout ( Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard ) Prussian Blue - Philip Kerr ( Bernie Gunther series) The Company - Robert Littel

Alexander Solzhenitsyn experienced 1984 for real . His predictions,as Orwell's , were uncomfortably accurate .

I read a lot of books . Have been reading a lot of books from a very young age . When I skipped school , I'd head for the library . When life was hard , I read a lot of books , usually written by folks who knew . When life was easier , I read about that too . Thank goodness books taught me the difference between one and the other . I am Canadian, got winter in my blood .

A Perfect Peace - Amos Oz

John Le Carre - before he became formulaic and predictable . John Lawton Nikos Kazantzakis Philip Kerr Alan Furst Saul Bellow Ivan Turgenev Nicholas Berdyaev(sp)

So, are we children of the state ? Some believe this to be the answer . East Germany circa 1956 was successful in ideological purification to a point . Dr Zhivago had to bw smuggled out . It won the nobel prize , when that actually meant something . People will always find a way to make up their own minds . Freedom of thought , born free , etc.

Coco Chanel

Paper .

Shakespeare , couldn't make heads or tails of it .

That men don't read fiction , to me , is possibly fictitious or maybe they're too busy writing it .

Brand new books I receive at Christmas or my birthday . I prefer the shelves at thrift stores and , book shops . Our libraries sell them as well . I might bring home two or three a month , eventually get around to reading them . There's something warm and fuzzy about glancing at the titles . But yeah, two or three a month , sometimes finish the ones I've started before . Surprisingly, the one that initially disappointed , turns out to be satisfying somewhere down the road . Something's changed,yes ?

Smiley's People - J. le Carre Fathers and Sons - Turgenev Who has Seen the Wind - W.O. Mitchell Dispatches - Michael Herr Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow Captive Mind - Czeslav Milosz The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington Tears of Autumn - Charles McCarry Some are favourites , some are significant . Not always the same thing, y'know ?