UK Literary Luvvies #2 Vital reading
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queenamber
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Was just checking my emails and it sounds like someone is bitter 
jenmarks
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Oh that's so Otegha. Desperate to insist she's not like them but intent on being accepted by them.
Love_hate_small_town
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Eye roll for the tweet, just post the pic of your arse (which in fairness is a great arse) without first having to qualify it. I don’t know her work but get the impression she is taken fairly seriously so why no just live that life and be the change etc
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W H Smith has partnered with author and broadcaster Dawn O’Porter to launch ‘Dawn Loves’ recommended reads.
The five novels hand-picked by O’Porter are Love Marriage by Monica Ali (Virago), Yinka, Where Is Your Husband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Viking) Girl A by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins), Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (Fourth Estate).
JUST what you have been missing in your life, right?
The five novels hand-picked by O’Porter are Love Marriage by Monica Ali (Virago), Yinka, Where Is Your Husband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Viking) Girl A by Abigail Dean (HarperCollins), Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) and Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors (Fourth Estate).
JUST what you have been missing in your life, right?
queenamber
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Londongirl89
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I like her dress sense, but her books are not very good. I don’t know how Dawn gets gigs like this.
They’re all a bit old news books? Yinka was a bit of a press fave like a year ago and Chemistry was a thing about three months ago. Hardly hot literary picks
Walkthehemline
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They’re all a bit old news books? Yinka was a bit of a press fave like a year ago and Chemistry was a thing about three months ago. Hardly hot literary picks
This is why no one shops at WH Smith
NomDeGuerre
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Lessons In Chemistry is perhaps the worst book I have ever read. I hated it. I hated every page.
It's twee, pseudo-clever, really poorly written, full of detestable characters... no wonder Dawn picked it!
It's twee, pseudo-clever, really poorly written, full of detestable characters... no wonder Dawn picked it!
I’ve actually thought the same..?
She flaunts a lot of designer clothes, expensive items and holidays etc on socials but it’s really unclear how’s she’s funding or what PR is funding that lifestyle.
I usually wouldn’t care but given she wrote a whole book called ‘We Need to Talk About Money’ it feels a bit disingenuous…
She flaunts a lot of designer clothes, expensive items and holidays etc on socials but it’s really unclear how’s she’s funding or what PR is funding that lifestyle.
I usually wouldn’t care but given she wrote a whole book called ‘We Need to Talk About Money’ it feels a bit disingenuous…
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queenamber
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I wonder how many emails Elizabeth Day has sent to Phil Schofield's PR team begging him to come on the podcast to 
share his truth
share his truthWell done on her for getting that tbh! But yeah bet there was some strategy involvedI wonder how many emails Elizabeth Day has sent to Phil Schofield's PR team begging him to come on the podcast to
queenamber
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Oh sorry I thought you were saying he wasOh he's not on the podcast as far as I know, I can just imagine her trying
I don’t really like the podcast, she doesn’t ask incisive questions. I’d like to see Othega do a similar one- not a huge fan but she has a sharper tongue
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