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I asked my mother to teach me to read when I was three and that's when I started to love books, the shape and feel of them. Once I discovered what was inside them I also fell in love with the English language. Although I am filled with admiration for so many writers who can do what they do with words, it is only in the past few years that I have dared to write myself (that's if I discount my oodles of childhood attempts). I'm writing my second novel and hoping that some day something I write will find itself between covers. As for the books I enjoy I used to find a writer I liked and then would devour his or her books until I ran out of them or I overdosed (like with John Irving), whichever happened first. Now I'm more eclectic or less organised, not sure which, and hop wantonly between writers, genres and styles. In recent years books I have particularly loved are: The Remains of the Day by Kasuo Ishiguro, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Sylvanus Now by Donna Morrissey, Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood, This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann and everything by John McGahern and John Steinbeck. But that's a severely pared back list; I already feel faithless and ungrateful for not acknowledging so many others.

Posts by marygm:

• September 12, 2008 Do Good Lives have to Cost the Earth? edited by Andrew Simms and Joe Smith

• September 10, 2008 The Importance of Being Honest: An Interview with Mark Lynas

• August 26, 2008 Foul Play : What’s Wrong with Sport by Joe Humphreys

• July 24, 2008 The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle

• July 20, 2008 FRANCE WEEK: L’Etranger/ The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus

• July 7, 2008 Children’s Book Week: When We Were Cubs by the Bookfoxes

• June 22, 2008 Everything Must Go by Elizabeth Flock

• May 22, 2008 Thursday Soapbox: Too Much of a Good Thing?

• May 14, 2008 Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

• May 6, 2008 The Known World by Edward P Jones

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