World book day, and becoming a multi-national

Happy World Book Day to all our readers. Reading a lot, and varying what you read is an ideal way to familiarise yourself with different genres and to discover what you like. It is also an enormous help when you need to write, especially for those who have to write in a second language: it increases your vocabulary and helps with learning idiom. I could never have raised my French to its current standard without books.

I have now spent exactly half of my life in my adopted country, and this will be recognised this Friday, 3 March when I attend a ceremony to receive French nationality. I'm on my way to becoming a true "world" citizen!