But not only has she given up news for Lent, she has also given up talking to people altogether.
Newt Gingrich (whose wife Callista said she was "giving up opinions" for Lent) blamed "the media" for exploiting the story and said there were far more important issues – Barack Obama's "war on religion", for example.
Barry Townsley, a stockbroker who lent £1m; Sir David Garrard, a property developer who lent £2.3m; Chai Patel, head of the Priory Clinics, who lent £1.5m; and Sir Gulam Noon, the so-called "curry king", who lent £250,000.
Your banks have lent my country crazy sums of money, way beyond the bounds of caution or common sense.
Among them is musician and social activist Paweł Kukiz, now polling 9%, and behind him on 5% is Janusz Korwin-Mikke, whose party has lent support to Ukip's grouping in the European parliament.
The private arm of the World Bank, which has lent more than $75bn for water and sanitation projects around the world since 1995, has been in secret talks for more than a year with the city's private water company about funding another possible private-public partnership (PPP) scheme.
Two leading candidates for the May 22 poll, and the partner of a third, donated or lent the party tens of thousands of pounds about the time they were selected for safe seats, according to an analysis of Electoral Commission records.
"Will the minister therefore tell the House why he has not moved to implement the extension of the public lending right to ebooks, as mandated in section 43 of the Digital Economy Act 2010?" Vaizey told Jarvis in response that "part of the problem with ebooks is that most publishers do not want ebooks lent in libraries.
That's because their pin-up political editor Tom Bradbury has lent it to close pal Prince William so he can edit together all his gap-year videos and DVDs into one very posh home movie.
On one wall of the Graves is a Damien Hirst, lent by Jarvis Cocker to his hometown's museum when he heard about its plight.
Valentine lent me a copy of Georges Bataille's L'Erotisme and carrying that around tipped me over the edge.
