(3) _________, like most people, I don’t have much time for reading, and I could (4) _________ dozens of books which I have never read but which I would like to. It’s an opportunity I have waited for all my life, in fact. But what would I choose? Mostly novels, probably, but I wouldn’t (5) _________ to include a volume or two of poetry. My first choice, I think, would be Tolstoy’s War and Peace. I’ve never read it, but I’m ready to believe that it is one of the most marvellous books ever written.