DearMe: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self
Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self by Joseph Galliano (Editor)
Started: 9th January 2010
Finished:
Summary:
If you were to write a letter to your 16-year-old self, what would it say?
In Dear Me, some of the world’s best loved personalities have written just such a letter. Dear Me includes letters from three knights, a handful of Oscar winners, a bevy of Baftas, an intrepid explorer, a few teenage pop stars, an avid horticulturalist, pages and pages of bestselling authors, a dishy doctor, a full credit of film directors, a lovey of top actors, a giggle of comedians and an Archbishop! The letters range from the compassionate to the shocking via hilarity and heartbreak, but they all have one thing in common: they offer a unique insight into the teenager who would grow up to be…. Stephen Fry, Annie Lennox, Paul O’Grady, Jackie Collins, Fay Weldon, Alan Carr, Peter Kay, Debbie Harry, Brenda Blethyn , Jonathan Ross, Liz Smith, Will Young, Alison Moyet, Rosanne Cash, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Yoko Ono, Emma Thompson… to name but a few.
It is the PERFECT GIFT for your mum and dad, sister or brother, gran or granddad or someone who is a teenager, even turning 16
Summary from Amazon.co.uk
My Review:
I must admit that I’ve had a slapdash approach to reading this – I have hunted down my favourites, Stephen Fry and Sue Perkins for starters, but it’s a lovely book, and it had me hooked at the premise.
The girl who codes. The smug little know-it-all. The nasty girl who has grown out of her fandoms, but is too selfish to give up the sites. The girl who wants to be a writer of teen fiction - but not fucking vampires.