Robin, could you provide a link? It's a potentially fascinating subject for study. How and why do people read? Does gender reflect or reify literary preference?

Apart from the withered left leg, he's a fine specimen.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 6

Emily Wilson's brilliant version of the Iliad is worth a month of anyone's time. Reading it slowly is like breathing, the rhythms of the text giving life to myth.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 5.

Nice choice...close to my top 20 and his best work IMO.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky#Books#BookChallenge Day 3

Day 2 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky#Books#BookChallenge

Things like #bookchallenge remind me of what Twitter used to be like. Fascinated to see everyone's contributions. Let's build communities and learn from each other.