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Margaret Megard
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Growing up in a family with more creativity than money, Margaret’s parents embarrassed her by decorating their home with second-hand furniture and castoffs they lovingly painted, varnished and restored. Today, she thinks they were incredibly resourceful and talented and is happy to report that some of that resourcefulness spark has rubbed off on her. After a decade of editing home magazines such as Our House and Country Home Ideas, Margaret has seen tonnes of houses and when it comes to home decorating, she is keen to share what she thinks works and what doesn’t.

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Book Worm
March 16, 2011, 11:09 am

Book Worm

Books have always been a passion of mine. I think my addiction to reading really blossomed when I was 12 and my English teacher, Mrs White, assigned us many volumes of classic literature as homework. I zipped through Vanity Fair, devoured Les Miserables and couldn’t get enough of The Scarlet Letter. While I loved these books and thought I truly understood them at the time, it’s not until I re-read some later in life that I realised how much I’d forgotten and maybe how little I actually comprehended them as a youngster. That has spurred me on to revisit other books I enjoyed – some not really great literature, but surely interesting reads. Ian Fleming, Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony Burgess and Roald Dahl still do it for me, and I’d like to lose myself in the pages of the much-loved Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird.

I’m very tempted to buy an electronic book reader like a Kindle or an iPad, but in the meantime, I’ve discovered Penguin Books and their classic Popular Penguin range. It’s bliss – a whole range of cute little cream and orange books, priced at only $9.95 each. Their catch-cry is even ‘View an old friend in a new light’, and I couldn’t agree more. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first Penguin paperback to be published, they are even adding another 75 classics to their line-up in the middle of the year. I could write more but I’m off to read – this week it’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s.