• getting medication for my anxiety
• cutting off 8 inches of my hair

• doing laundry
• the morning bus timetable
• repetitive sounds
• house music
• the smell of secondhand books
• long nails
• talking in the morning
• when my jeans get too baggy
• being interrupted while reading

• Absolutely Fabulous
• Chewing Gum
• Derry Girls
• Friday Night Dinner
• Friends
• Ghosts
• Golden Girls
• Superstore
• This Country

• James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster
• Misfits by Michaela Coel
• Just Ignore Him by Alan Davies
• Managing Expectations by Minnie Driver
• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes
• The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
• Why Did You Stay? by Rebecca Humphries
• Set the Night on Fire by Robby Krieger, with Jeff Alulis
• Gentleman Jack (Anne Lister) by Anne Choma
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• How to be Champion by Sarah Millican
• Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
• Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh
• Van Gogh's Ear by Bernadette Murphy
• Free by Lea Ypi

• almost entirely plant-based
• falls in love with books, not characters
• reads while it rains outside
• descended from vikings, probably
• mornings are for coffee, afternoons are for tea
• anxious, obsessive brain
• heart-shaped sunglasses in three colours
• dresses and smocks and cosy jumpers
• reads unrelated non-fiction in times of distress
• owns an obscene amount of books
• won a television quiz show once
• never folds the corner but sometimes writes on the page
• books are organised by colour

• cute bras
• signed books
• matcha lattes
• cat cafés
• thunderstorms
• houseplants
• garden birds
• vegan marshmallows
• jaffa cakes
• neighbourhood cats
• autobiographies by comedians
• mugs
• goats
• fresh, homegrown fruit and vegetables

• 01.19 Shapes
• 02.02 The Host
• 02.10 Red Museum
• 02.14 Die Hand Die Verletzt
• 02.20 Humbug
• 02.21 The Calusari
• 03.03 D.P.O.
• 03.04 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose
• 03.06 2Shy
• 03.08 Oubliette
• 03.13 Syzygy
• 03.20 Jose Chung's From Outer Space
• 04.02 Home
• 05.04 Detour
• 05.05 The Postmodern Prometheus
• 05.09 Schizogeny
• 05.10 Chinga
• 05.12 Bad Blood
• 05.17 All Souls
• 05.19 Folie à Deux
• 06.03 Triangle

2005-2020; 2002-2022

• endless affection
• their understated love for one another
• their talkative natures
• sneaky food acquisition
• the door opening as one enters, followed by the other
• gentle nudges
• welcome homes
• the chaos of lunchtime
• funny little poses
• everything, always

• big feet
• chunky
• wears a lot of yellow
• eats six times a day
• loves mushrooms
• and po ta toes
• sleeps a lot
• moves quietly

alphabetical order

• animal rights
• anti-racism
• ending poverty
• equal access to education
• intersectional feminism
• lgbtq+ rights
• refugees
• reproductive rights
• social care
• universal healthcare

"it's not about allyship, it's about 'this ain't right'" — Claudia Rankine

• Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Japan: A Short History by Mikiso Hane
• A Graphic History of the Middle Ages by Dr Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
• It's Not About the Burqa ed. by Mariam Khan
• A Curious History of Sex by Kate Lister
• Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
• Van Gogh's Ear by Bernadette Murphy
• Animal by Sara Pascoe
• Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
• The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
• Free by Lea Ypi

• caramel latte
• chai
• chamomile tea
• earl grey tea
• english breakfast tea
• ginger tea
• hot chocolate
• matcha latte
• peppermint and licorice tea

• Acaster, James
• Conaty, Roisin
• Davies, Greg
• Gilbert, Rhod
• Hagen, Sofie
• Jones, Rosie
• Kumar, Nish
• Lycett, Joe
• Pascoe, Sara
• Ranganathan, Romesh
• Ryan, Katherine

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
• How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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