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	Name: Renate Stendhal
	City & State: Pt. Reyes Station, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Writer, editor, spiritual counselor

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

Reading is habit forming. Mine started at age five when I was so eager to read my sister’s fairytale book that I magically figured out how to read. The thrill has never lessened.
I still love to be tempted and challenged by books – which is why I translated Gertrude Stein into my mother tongue, German, struggled (unsuccessfully) with Proust in French while I lived in Paris, and fell in love with Henry James when I came to live in Berkeley, CA.
I often read through the night (tiredness is never an argument), and my lovers have often complained that I don’t hear a word spoken when I am gripped by the words of a book.

Certain books have to be read over and over again, and those you will find in my OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Delight) list below.

My List of Ten: Of my OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Delight) list

1. The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Author: Thomas Mann

2. Death in Venice
Author: Thomas Mann

3. The Ambassadors
Author: Henry James

4. The Leopard
Author: Giuseppe di Lampedusa

5. Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf

6. The Blue Flower
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald

7. The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy

8. The Little Prince
Author: Saint-Exupéry

9. The Lover
Author: Marguerite Duras

10. The Red and the Black
Author: Stendhal

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

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