A 31-year reading break
It takes guts, or at least a serious PR glitch, to admit to never having read a book in 31 years. But Posh Spice Victoria Beckham has done it. As The Guardian reports: “Despite penning a 528-page autobiography charting her rise to the top, Victoria Beckham has admitted that she has never read a book in her life.” (The most disturbing element here, perhaps, is that a publisher saw fit to print 500 plus pages of Beckham’s prose.) The comment reportedly came out in an interview with Spanish magazine Chic: “‘I haven’t read a book in my life,’ Beckham confesses. ‘I don’t have the time… I prefer listening to music, although I do love fashion magazines.’” The Guardian then follows with a commentary questioning the world’s collective shudder at Beckham’s confession. Writes Hester Lacey: “The reasons for reading, as far as I can see, are either to learn something new or, more often, for sheer enjoyment’s sake. If you are unlikely to achieve either via Jane Austen or Iris Murdoch or Carol Shields or Helen Fielding, why force yourself? We all have enough duties in our lives without adding the Booker candidates to the list, if that’s not our natural proclivity.”
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Click here for the follow-up commentary from The Guardian
