WRITING: My family were all pretty religious so even as a kid I read the Bible. But the first literary books I remember reading are Emma by Charlotte Bronte and a book about a girl named Penelope. My mother ha (...)

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My family were all pretty religious so even as a kid I read the Bible. But the first literary books I remember reading are Emma by Charlotte Bronte and a book about a girl named Penelope. My mother had a great memory and always walked around the house orating the openings of great books. So I grew up hearing the openings of A tale of two cities, Ivanhoe etc.