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Hey, Laura Bush is a reader, too

And her reading list is a little racier than her husband’s. The Washington Post‘s Tamara Jones spoke with the American first lady about books, in honour of the upcoming National Book Festival.

Bush had some infinitely quotable things to say: “I will admit to reading books like Lady Chatterley’s Lover in high school, where you had a fake cover on the outside of the book and read it during math.”

Bush “breezily” admitted to having read “steamier” books since then, but avoided naming titles. She even turned to the librarian of Congress and said, “It’s hard even having to name ones that are steamy, don’t you think, Dr. Billington?”

No doubt someone with access to the White House library will be going through the collection, shelf by shelf, keeping a keen eye out for “fake covers” on Bush’s bodice-rippers.

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Read Jones’ interview with Bush here

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