Here are Ella Berthouds book recommendations from Salons Big Ideas on Thurs: How Do I get through the Winter? The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson How do I get over my obsession with buying bags? Obsession cure – Moby Dick by Hermann Melville Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Fashion madness cure Fabulous Nobodies by Lee Tulloch The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger I can’t finish any books! Follow the 50 page rule – read 50 pages before giving up Cut up big fat tomes! Read with a friend or a group of friends My Golf is rubbish how can I improve it: Give up! Read a good novel instead. But to focus your mental faculties, read Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower If you recycled yourself and came out as someone new, who would that be? Gerald Durrell who wrote My Family and Other Animals I need to think before I speak: Black Swan Green by David Mitchell and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov I’d Like to Learn how to Cycle: Gold by Chris Cleave How can I overcome my internet addiction? Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys How can Literature help combat the shift towards a visual culture? The answer all lies in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, especially the Graphic Novel version, illustrated by Tim Bethany Lewis Hamilton
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