Ranjona Banerji | When Books Were Our Map To A Wild, Hazy World
In a judgmental fashion, I was appalled to find some popular fiction. My mother, as I remember it, was very strict about reading habits and was very clear that I had a whole lifetime to read rubbish, so I didn’t have to start young. And yet I find Colleen McCoullough’s Thorn Birds in my list.
Perhaps, and this is my excuse, I was allowed to read it after we had watched the American TV series. Who knows. I do remember being deeply embarrassed by the idea that I had even watched it, some years later.
Although Richard Chamberlain was quite dishy
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