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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Loads. All the greats.
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View all 32 →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.
Anything by Dostoevsky. I tried!
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
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The perimenopause.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
Losing my mind.
I cry all the time. Films can tip me over. Especially Pixar ones. I alarmed my kids when we went to see Coco – I was a mess. I cried at the Elton John gig at Glastonbury.
In the sea, somewhere hot. Looking back at people I love on the beach.
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