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Today, actor Helen McCrory shares her list.
Im appalled to say I do not like a Kindle or an audiobook; I like a book.
Everything the wombat says is nonsense (Oh wonderful, fish my favorite fruit.
), and it made me howl with laughter as a kid.
I was brought up in East Africa, and was at school with all the international kids.
The Necklace, is particularly wonderful.
This was one of them.
Its interesting what sticks with you.
I read many classics as a child, but these are the ones that linger.
Without this you add to the loneliness of an audiences life, you add to their sadness.
I still read his books, but its all in this compilation.
First, shed talk, without notes, for about 45 minutes about an author.
She was never dry or academic, and would find ways to humanize her subjects.
When Ive played Medea, or roles of that kind, I return to Plath.
As you read it, you realize Partridge is having a nervous breakdown, but not acknowledging it.
Hes pure Chekhov, the idiots clown, the comic-tragic figure.
Its the kind of book you dont want to finish too soon.
Its brilliantly badly written its every teenage essay you hoped you didnt write.
He makes me smile every time.
I read these out loud quite often.
They are tiny chinks of light into all these different lives, from Charlie Chaplin to Hitler.
Each letter is reproduced as a facsimile of the original.
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