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Simon Mason – My Reading Habits
I take notes, very neatly in pencil on a blank page at the end. When I’ve finished, I write a…
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Shanta Everington – My Reading Habits
I can only have one novel on the go at any given time but with creative nonfiction, I often have…
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Shanta Everington – Life Changing Literature
If Deenie was cool, that meant it was okay to have scoliosis and not the shameful secret it had once…
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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi – My Reading Habits
I don’t come from a bookish family, so my addiction to reading was a surprise. My mother read cookbooks, my…
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Nathalie Abi-Ezzi – Life Changing Literature
On its cover, a girl sits astride an alligator with sharp teeth. She’s being swept downstream to who knows where.…
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Michael Bird – My Reading Habits
The three or four pages I’ll be turning as I fall asleep remind me of the individual matchsticks from which…
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Michael Bird – Life Changing Literature
Reading T. S. Eliot, I saw the images, got caught up in the rhythms with no awareness of separation. As…
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Lulu Allison – Writers Who Inspire Me
As my understanding of the world grew, so my love for a broader spectrum of writing emerged. The tender brutality…
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Lulu Allison – Classic Book I’d Like To Rewrite
The great gift of myths are the many layers of meaning and understanding they bring, smuggled under the surface. Why…
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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…