My new year resolution is actually to read all the classics and I’m ashamed that I haven’t read everything by the Brontë sisters.
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Fifty per cent of the books on my shelf, so much so that I gave them away.
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To Kill a Mockingbird.
Because it’s in one of my songs, War and Peace.
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