I started to read hefty books quite young. As a kid, I was often in the library. Another way to escape the present reality, who knows?

Favorite books:
Watership Down
The Hunt for the Red October
The Guns of Navarone
H.M.S. Ulysses
Belgariad series - teenage years
Discworld series - in English

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Thank you for all your work! 💕

There have been many more books that left an impression, but those are from the top of my head.