It's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves.Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago,I made a(n) （1）discovery. Pretty much all the （2） on my bookshelves were written by British authors,and there was almost nothing in translation from other （3） .What a shame!So,I decided to launch my （4）reading project.
　　But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for （5） . So in October 2011,I started my blog,and (6) a short appeal online.Within hours,people began to （7） . At first,it was friends and colleagues. Then it was friends of friends.And soon,it was （8）.
　　Four days later,I got a(n) （9） from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she loved my project, （10） if she could go to her local English-language bookshop and choose my Malaysian book and post it to me.I accepted （11） ,and a few weeks later,a package （12）containing no one,but two books—Rafidah's choice from Malaysia,and a book from Singapore that she had also（13） for me.At the time,I was （14） that a stranger more than 6,000 miles away would go to such lengths to help someone she would probably never （15）
　　But Rafidah's kindness （16）to be the pattern for that year. Time and again,people went out of their （17）to help me.And books often came from （18） sources.A writer even emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me,allowing me to become one of the（19） people ever to read that book in English.
　　That year, thanks to kind strangers from the four（20） of the world. I read books from over 100 countries