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Advance Readers' Copies -- one of the many benefits of working at a bookstore. For those who might not know what that phrase refers to though, it means I (and other booksellers) are invited, even encouraged, to read advance copies of books before they are officially released to the public. In this world of thousands upon thousands of books, publishers often send out a free copy in hopes that a particularly enthusiastic recipient will personally promote the work to his or her customers, and thus increase sales exponentally.

Here are a few books that I have read in galley form (another phrase...
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Daniel J. Levitin, 2006, 320 pages

Why human beings make and enjoy music is, in Levitin’s telling, a delicious story. In this unprecedented meeting of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music – its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it – and the human brain.

Taking on prominent thinkers who argue that music is nothing madami than an evolutionary accident, Levitin argues that music is fundamental to our species, perhaps even madami so than language. ‘This Is Your Brain On Music’ is an ear-opening,...
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Here are some of my favourite books. Try to read them, they are excellent. For those who can speak Spanish, I advise pagbaba García Márquez in Spanish.

1.    The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2.    The Firm, John Grisham
3.    Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
4.    The Innocent Man, John Grisham
5.    Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
6.    Jane Eyre, charlotte Brontë
7.    Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
8.    A Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
9.    The Sword of Truth, Terry Goodkind
10.    The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
11.    Hamlet, Shakespeare
12.    It, Stephen King
13.    Les Rois Maudits, Maurice Druon
14.    Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
15.    Atonement, Ian McEwan
16.    Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
17.    Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
18.    Annales, Tacite
19.    Mémoires d’Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar