Goodreads asked Robert Rees:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Robert Rees I tend to go blind into a bookshop and pick out the titles that appeal to me - but there will always be certain genres I like to take. A couple of science based books - I am currently reading "The Invention of Science", a history of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton (excellent). Some science fiction - I particularly the classic SF series. Usually something on music. At the moment I am wading through a heavy but enjoyable study of Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven by Daniel Heartz. And then a few current novels. I also always try to take one classic book - this year it will be either Bleak House or Proust. Last year it was the Illiad - brilliant. Sometimes I get through it, sometimes I don't. Like my character, Henry Fanshawe, I have bookshelves of books that I have read, and bookshelves of books that I have not read, but feel I ought to.

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