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…are you reading now? FREE Therapy by debut short story writer Rebecca Ivory, which I rushed to the shops to pick up. The captivating Alice Munro and her collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Japanese Ghost Stories by the Irish-Greek fantasy writer Lafcadio Hearn, a Penguin book of modern women's short stories published in 1990 featuring an array of now forgotten women writers … Oh and Hilary Mantel's A Memoir of my Former Self and Nicole Flattery's Nothing Special… would you take to a desert island? THAT would need to be the Norton Anthology of Poetry, which has been sitting neglected on my bookshelf since college days. The particular anthology may be out of fashion, but I reckon, you can't read a poem too many times …first gave you the reading bug? LIKE many girls my gateway into literature was the Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M Martin, about a group of go-getting girls and their babysitting charges in a town called Stoneybrook which formed about three quarters of my childhood imagination. From age 12-16 I read nothing at all. At 16, it was Anne Enright then straight to Tolstoy.… [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
