31 - a book at the bottom of your to-read list

It's a hard task this week, and one I'm ready not to fulfil - a book at the bottom of my to-read list. There is one book at the bottom, the book I could never start reading, because it's so long and I felt quite scared to start it, and it's:

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

Well, we'll see if I manage to finish it. Let's hope I will!

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