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\nDua Lipa opened up about her childhood love of readingThe pop star said that her parents instilled a passion for reading in her at an early ageShe’s continued her love of literature as the host of the Service95 Book Club<\/p>\n
She might be best known for pop hits like \u201cDance the Night Away\u201d and \u201cLevitating,\u201d but when she was a kid, Dua Lipa<\/a> had her nose stuck in a good book.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The 29-year-old musician opened up about how her love of reading started at an early age in a recent profile for Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt was such a big part of my childhood,\u201d she told the magazine of reading as a kid. \u201cThere was a big bookshop. It was at the O2 Centre on Finchley Road in London, and there was a kids\u2019 section.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Lipa said her mother, Anesa, would spend her weekends sitting in the children\u2019s section, \u201creading her books, and I would just spend all day in there reading my books. I think books allow us to slow down a little bit.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Lipa\u2019s paternal grandfather was a well-known historian in Kosovo and her parents also instilled a love of reading in the singer from an early age.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Dua Lipa shows off her Service95 Book Club pick.<\/p>\n Dua Lipa\/Instagram<\/p>\n The Grammy winner visited a book club in a women\u2019s prison in the U.K. as a part of the Booker Prize Foundation\u2019s Books Unlocked<\/a> program and shared that the experience had a profound impact on her.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n \u201cThere was also one lady in there that I think about often, and she was about 52 years old or something, and she said, \u2018Oh, had I maybe read books sooner in my life, maybe I wouldn\u2019t be here, because reading books has really made me understand people and humans and emotions.\u2019 Reading opens you up to the world. And it makes the world so much smaller,\u201d Lipa explained.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n The prison book club happened to be reading Shuggie Bain<\/a> by Douglas Stuart, the same book that was the first selection for Lipa\u2019s Service95 Book Club<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n Dua Lipa reads in a bikini on Instagram.<\/p>\n Dua Lipa\/Instagram<\/p>\n