Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
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.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
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.
None. I’m not ashamed. I’m dyslexic so I don’t read a lot of books.
Selfless and open, freeing.
I can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
It happened when I was younger, somewhere outside London. We were on bikes, and this older girl pulled up and said something racist that I won’t repeat. I will never forget that, because it was the first time, and I was like, “Oh, I am feeling different from everyone around me right now”.
Nothing’s guaranteed and things change in an instant, and to get used to that and stay in the moment.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
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