I'm a female, English graduate who until last year has never read Jane Austen. I knew the Pride and Prejudice premise, obviously, and I'd seen adaptations of Sense and Sensibility on TV but reading them had never appealed. I do most of my reading on the train at either 8am or 5.30pm both of which I'm usually tired so classics like Austen are...

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It's so easy to talk about what you're reading but I think it's just as important to talk about why you're reading a book. Isn't that the fascinating part? Finding out what made someone pick up a book and read it just as much as what they thought of it. So I want to take some time and write a little post about...

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