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Louise Mulvey – My Reading Habits
I took a blanket and the six scripts I was paid to read to the park. I would lie in…
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Louise Mulvey – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite
The book I’d rewrite is Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I’d change it so Tess takes the money from Angel Clare…
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Juliet Gilkes Romero – Writers Who Inspire Me
Zora Neale Hurston left an indelible mark on me as a young journalist. I was inspired by her book Tell…
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Juliet Gilkes Romero – My Reading Habits
In the words of William Faulkner ‘Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how…
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Jonathan Edwards – My Reading Habits
When I think of reading, I think of enthusiasm, chaos, joy. I think of dropping one book, half-read, on the…
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Jonathan Edwards – Life Changing Literature
When I think of life-changing literature, I think of writing which didn’t change me at all, but which made me…
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Heidi Williamson – My Reading Habits
Of course I read for enjoyment, escape, information, learning, to walk for a few hours in other landscapes and other…
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Heidi Williamson – Life Changing Literature
I studied W. S. Graham’s poem for rhymes, sentence structure, pacing, inversions. It was like an impossible staircase or a…
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Fiona Evans – My Reading Habits
Reading. Breathing. No TV, just books, just us. In those few days, I fell in love with Agatha Christie and…
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Fiona Evans – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite
I remember my heart breaking for Joe when he goes to visit Pip in London, and Pip’s embarrassment at Joe’s…
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Edson Burton – Writers Who Inspire Me
I felt a particular affinity with writers who brought the ‘folk’ into literature. Much later I encountered Zora Neale Hurston’s…
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Edson Burton – Life Changing Literature
I can’t recall why I bought All Quiet on the Western Front. I imagine I thought it was going to…