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Reading List



We're on the email list of a young woman who used to read the books my wife and I wrote. She's a fan, now a soldier in Hawija, Iraq. She had a number of requests for things to ease the boredom and we'll see what we can do about some of them, but I was struck by the list of books she requested. Not surprisingly given that she used to be a fan, she's still into science fiction and fantasy. But the number one book on her list is the one shown above.

“Reading List”