Recently the Guardian published a list of '1,000 Novels You Must Read'. As a person who spends more time with her nose in a book than is good for the eyesight I eagerly looked through to see just how many of the 1,000 great works of literature I had read.
The shameful answer? Thirty one.
Upto that point I had always considered myself a well-read person. Turns out that while I have read a lot of books, the books I read are not the sorts of great literature that make up the Guardian's list.
So here's my challenge. To stop such embarrassment occuring again (and partly because I cannot resist a challenge) I downloaded the Guardian's list and set myself the task of reading every single last one of them.
1,000 novels? How hard can it be?
The shameful answer? Thirty one.
Upto that point I had always considered myself a well-read person. Turns out that while I have read a lot of books, the books I read are not the sorts of great literature that make up the Guardian's list.
So here's my challenge. To stop such embarrassment occuring again (and partly because I cannot resist a challenge) I downloaded the Guardian's list and set myself the task of reading every single last one of them.
1,000 novels? How hard can it be?
Just counted, instead of paying attention in my geotechnics class... 60 exactly though I may have missed some! I thought I would have had more too!!
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