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	Name: Jeff Hardy
	City & State: Novato, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Designing Hospitals for Patient Safety
	Website: www.birthsongbook.com

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

Once upon a time there was a sad little boy who had a sad and difficult life. Every day the sad little boy got out of bed and was soon doing something that got him scolded for being bad. He went to school and got beat up by other boys for not being like them. He got chided by teachers for not paying attention when everything he was supposed to pay attention to was not interesting.

By the end of the day his insides were filled with scolds, chides, cuts, bruises and tears, just like his outsides. But when it was time to go to bed the sad little boy crawled under the covers and listened while someone read him his favorite book before falling asleep.

He loved the book. The book never scolded him. The book never hurt him. The book never made him cry. Instead, the book made him feel good. The book made him laugh. And most important, the book gave him hope. That's when the little boy discovered that there was love in the world. The book let him know that even a sad little donkey could be just as loved as a bear of little brain.

As he got older and began to read for himself he learned that there were sorrows greater than his own, that people did more horrible things to each other than what people had done to him.

So the boy, and then the man trusted books to guide his way as he looked for, and finally found love for himself. Books were not like all the people he knew when he was a sad little boy so long ago. Books never let him down.

My List of Ten: Touched my heart

1. Winnie the Pooh
Author: A. A. Milne

2. First Circle
Author: Aleksandyr Solzhenitsyn

3. Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Author: Tom Wolfe

4. Sirens of Titan
Author: Vonnegut

5. Alice in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll

6. The Once and Future King
Author: T. H. White

7. 1001 Nights Arab folk tales
Author: a lot of people

8. Princess Sultana: life behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia (trilogy)
Author: Jean Sasson

9. The Ladies #1 Detective Agency (series)
Author: Alexander McCall Smith

10. Dune (series)
Author: Frank Herbert

Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.

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