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Looks like they’ve turned up at Larry David’s house

Really enjoying the new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. I think I like it even more than the last album, which I played a lot.

Add me to the people who enjoyed One Day. I really enjoy these types of stories (see also Normal People from a couple of years ago). Despite being nothing like the main characters I found myself relating to them in one way or another.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. A dying man trying to come to terms with what’s happening and how he got there. I liked it but I’m not sure I really liked any of the characters.

I use The Storygraph; assume most of these apps are the same but I’d saw some recommendations for it and downloaded it. Let’s you track what you’re reading, gives recommendations etc.

I listened to Live and Let Die last year. Not a great book but made all the more…interesting…by Rory Kinnear trying to do a load of black Harlem accents.

I use audible when I’m driving; usually easier stories that you can follow while you’re concentrating on the road. I like it for that. I'm reading War and Peace this year, a chapter a day, and instead of taking the book on holiday I decided to get the audiobook with one of my audible credits. It’s absolutely awful as the narrator gives everyone terrible English accents. I get that it’d probably sound daft if he was putting on Russian accents for most of the characters but it put me right off it until I got home and started reading the book again.

My parents got my 2 year old daughter a load of large soft play blocks, ramps, mats etc for her birthday last year. So much so that we wouldn’t have had the space to lay it all out or store it properly. I was livid when they brought it in the house; took about 4 trips to the car. They were told to take it back and rein it in, which didn’t go down too well.

I listened to the audiobook of Matthew Perry’s book not long after it was released and thought it was very frank (in a good way) and honest. It was read by him so it made it all the more so. On audiobooks, I usually listen to these while driving, and started to make my way through the James Bond series last year. The stories themselves hold up quite well but Bond (Fleming?) comes across horribly sometimes. I guess it’s just of it’s time. They’re read by some pretty famous actors so have still been enjoyable enough. I’m about half way through the series just now.

I just finished this tonight and also loved it. I hadn’t a clue which direction is was going to go in after the end of the first episode and some of it is absolutely bonkers, but that’s all part of the charm.

1. The Wire 2. Deadwood 3. Twin Peaks 4. Peep Show 5. Lost 6. The Office (UK) 7. Spiral 8. The Simpsons 9. Friday Night Lights 10. Normal People

That album always brings back good memories of my uni days. I saw them twice live around that time at the abc in Glasgow and then a few years ago at their comeback, of sorts, at St. Luke’s. There was supposed to be a new album in the works but I haven’t heard anything about it for a while now.

I didn’t mind Osman too much on Pointless but his twitter feed was insufferable, self-satisfied drivel. I fully expect his books to be in the same vein.

It took me 2-3 chapters to get used to the language but it’s a great book once you do. It’s amazing how you get used to it.