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Good Reading : July 2001
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me, This month actor and author RUTH CRACKNELL reveals her reading habits and tastes Favourite authors? shelf,i my What are you reading now? Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Dyer’s Hand by WH Auden, Other People’s Words by Hilary McPhee, plays and screenplays. Elizabeth Jolley, Muriel Spark, Jeanette Winterson, William Shakespeare, James Thurber, Virginia Woolf Favourite kinds of reading? Anything from the King James’ Bible, poetry, crime, fiction, biography, food, art, cereal packets... Author you would most like to meet? Gore Vidal Book you loved best as a child? The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Favourite book title? Little Me by Patrick Dennis Book you never finished or book you have not enjoyed? Babel Tower by A S Byatt Book you have been meaning to read, but have never got round to? Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust Favourite film of a book? Camille starring Greta Garbo, based on Alexandre Dumas’ The Lady of the Camelias. Favourite fictional hero or heroine? Mrs Ramsay in To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Favourite book cover? The hardback edition of Journey From Venice Favourite place to read? Bed Book you remember reading aloud to your children? Dr Seuss’ Are You My Mother? by Theodor Seuss Geisel. All the other stories I made up. Have you read Harry Potter? Not yet. Do you use bookmarks or do you fold back page corners? Neither. Do you lend books? Yes. Favourite bookshops? Small, dusty and independent. Are you in a reading group? No. Where are most of the books in your home? Everywhere. Ruth Cracknell will be appearing in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Peta Murray’s play Salt in August. Her most recent book, Journey from Venice, is published by Penguin. 9
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