Sara Pascoe - Shelf Isolation
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The Importance of Reading
I would love one day to write something about the way characters and novels are with money. I read that book when I was very similarly poor after my first job. And all of your life decisions are what can we get? What do we have left over? Also borrowing money and things like that, like really common. That thing where you have two cigarettes left for the day. So you're literally thinking for two hours, I can't smoke one now because then I've only got one left and it's only one o'clock. The fact that he's not allowed to eat or drink in his room. He has just been flying the George Orwell and novel, where his poverty is described
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