To Kill a Mockingbird – I was meant to read it for an exam and I didn’t and I cheated. I was allowed to use a laptop to type my answers because I couldn’t see my writing, so I hid an electronic copy of the book on the laptop.
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Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
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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.
Any unread book a friend bought me.
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My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
I don’t think I care.
A ban on music in restaurants.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
When George, Shirlie [the Wham! backing singer, whom Ridgeley dated] and I were knocking about as teenagers.
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