News Squib#5 – Down Memory Lane with Paula Hawkins

Extra News TodayIt’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read this week. Today: Author of “The Girl on the Train” Admits to Low-Brow Taste in Books as a Child 

 

the_girl_on_the_trainI was happy to read recently that Paula Hawkins, the British best-selling thriller author of The Girl on the Train, and I  shared a guilty pleasure as children. With the U.S. opening of the movie based on the book a week ago, the New York Times commemorated the occasion by featuring Paula in its By the Book segment. When asked what kind of reader she was as a child, Paula replied, “Not a particularly high-brow one. I read a great deal of Enid Blyton.” Continue reading “News Squib#5 – Down Memory Lane with Paula Hawkins”