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Reading has become as necessary as breathing.

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So many books, so little Time! I have been pondering on what to review next, there are so many books that should be mentioned and then I realized that I should probably start where my addiction started many years ago. As a young girl, I already fancied fantasy stories above true stories or just fiction.  If you added something or someone magical I would love it.  So one day I was at the school library, looking for something to read, but with a little more to the bone than Mary Norton's  Borrowers . I remember seeing the back of a book that said, MORT by Terry Pratchett .  Well, I had Latin at school and always looked out for deeper meaning in words and titles.  Imagine my amazement that in my hand I held a new world where Death is a character with so many things that can make you chuckle. I was so taken with Pratchett's writing that I ended up reading with a dictionary close at hand (as English is not my mother tongue) and I did not want t...