“goodreading” is the name of a magazine I enjoy very much. One page is called “me my shelf i.” ( I still have to find out what the meaning of that is.)

Fourteen questions are asked on that page and all of them have to do with reading and books.

One issue of “goodreading” has the picture of David Hobson on that page and he is asked the 14 questions.

David Hobson is one of the best – known operatic performers in Australia with a number of awards. With other words he is famous.

Here are some of the 14 questions:

What are you reading now and why? How are the books on your shelves organised – or aren’t they? Which author would you like most to meet, and why? Where is your favourite place to read? Here is another question: Which books have had the most influence on your lifestyle and philosophy? I am very much interested in that question as you can well imagine. But the following question I like best: What is your all – time favourite book?

I am not writing down here the answers David Hobson gave to those two last questions, but if you have read other posts on this blog you know my answer already, namely my answer to those two last questions is : The Bible, the Word of the Living God!

But don’t worry, I am not going to finish this post here. That would be a little bit disappointing. And nobody likes disappointments!

After reading the answers given by David Hobson I picked up another issue of “goodreading” and turned to the page “me my shelf i” – I still don’t know what that means – and read the answers to the same questions given by another very very famous Australian citizen. His name is Graeme Clark, Professor Graeme Clark AC. The father of professor Graeme Clark was profoundly deaf and professor Graeme Clark invented the Bionic Ear. In the year 2004 professor Clark was awarded Australia’s highest civil honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), for services to medicine and science. In the year 2004 he was also proclaimed Australian father of the Year! A world famous man!

Was I pleased and encouraged to read all his answers to the 14 questions. And I hope you are also encouraged.

His answer to the question: Which books have had the most influence on your lifestyle and philosophy? The Bible has been the guiding light in living.

His answer to the question: What is your all – time favourite book? Apart from the BIBLE, War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Tolstoy.

Personally I find the last bit about him mentioning the book Anna Karenina by Tolstoy very interesting. I read the book A. Karenina by Tolstoy many many years ago – but lately it came to my mind to read it again! In that book is one part that made a deep impression on me when I read it for the first time.