READ READ READ

If, unlike me, you are still able to read; might I suggest you dump the vacation novels, beach reads and self-help books for the rest of the Summer in favor of  . . . THE CLASSICS.  Check out my list below and if you find one you haven't read and which might strike your interest - go for it.  It's as inexpensive as the public library and, friends, these are called 'classics' for a reason.  These ten are all fiction - they take you to another world - but, so much like our own.

Don Quixote  by Cervantes  (a lighthearted look at a different kind of knight)
Kidnapped  by Robert Lewis Stevenson  (adventure, shipwreck, murder)
Animal Farm  by George Orwell  (politics you can understand)
To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee  (it was once this way in America and maybe still is)
Anne of Green Gables  by L.M. Montgomery  (tough little girl to admire)
Of Mice and Men  by John Steinbeck  (this Steinbeck is short and intense)
A Tale of Two Cities  by Charles Dickens  (the French Revolution at its best)
The Picture of Dorian Gray  by Oscar Wilde  (some people's lament: your looks or your soul)
For Whom the Bell Tolls  by Ernest Hemingway  (an American in the Spanish Civil War)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  by Lewis Carroll  (its not Disney, children's fantasy for adults)

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