I've always loved to read. Mostly I like complicated novels with plot twists and lots of characters. I enjoy crime and detective novels. I also like books about art history and about the lives of artists and explorers and travelers. I like to learn something new.

Wish List --
To End All Wars - by David Cunningham
River Kwai Railway - by Clifford Kinvig
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - by Philip Dick
The Betrothed - by Alessandro Manzoni
The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley - by Elizabeth Romer
Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place - by Matthew Spender
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream - reprinted - by Francesco Colonna
Florence: A Portrait - by Michael Levey
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing - by MARGARET ATWOOD
The Black Prince - by Iris Murdoch
The Lion in Winter (a play) - by James Goldman
The Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology - by Joseph Tainter
History - by Herodotus
The Mammoth Book of Wild Journeys - by John Lewis
Irish Lady - by Jeanette Baker
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty - by Sebastian Barry
The Return Journey - by Maeve Binchy
Tara Road - by Maeve Binchy
Undertow - by Tom Foote
Valperga: or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca - by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore - by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Falkner - by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Night Life of the Gods - by Thorne Smith
Martin Eden - by Jack London
Ethan Frome - by Edith Wharton

Reading List for 2008 --
Memoirs by Georges Simenon
Reading List for 2007 --
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Harvest of Sunflowers by Ruth Silvestre
Within Tuscany by Matthew Spender
D.H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Stone the Builder Refused by Madison Smartt Bell
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell