None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
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I used to give a fantastic talk about Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’ve never been able to finish either book.
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View all 33 →None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
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View profile →I can be horribly smug and conceited, and yet always in the back of my mind is the thought that things could go terribly wrong at any moment.
Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.
All the kids I didn’t reply to who’ve written lovely letters about my books.
I’m a classic remoaner.
I’ve shat myself in public three times. It’s never quite as bad as you fear.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
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