鈥淚t鈥檚 hard for me to find time for reading,鈥� says Reid, professor of statistics at the University of Toronto, Canada, 鈥渂ut I love reading novels.鈥� Graham Swift鈥檚 Last Orders (Random House, 1996) was 鈥渜uite remarkable鈥�. She has also just finished reading Paul Auster鈥檚 The Book of Illusions (Henry Holt, 2002) and Brian Moore鈥檚 No Other Life (Bantam, 1993).
On her bedside table is Luciano Canfora鈥檚 account of the Library of Alexandria, The Vanished Library (University of California, 1992).
鈥淭hese authors are all male!鈥� she notes, 鈥淚 usually look for female authors. So I鈥檒l add Alice Munro to my summer list.鈥�
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