Things I like. Now with Search button (and links have moved right to the bottom)
I see from Googling that everybody knows about this already, but I didn't. The app is thrillingly lovely to use, also dramatically cheaper (£2.99 an issue, as opposed to £4 something) than buying the magazine from the newsagent's - or my newsagent's, at any rate.
I wanted to load up my Kindle with comfort reads - the literary equivalent of hot chocolate - for a friend who's not well. I know what my faves are but I wanted more suggestions, so I asked on Twitter and got an avalanche of replies. These are the ones that cropped up most often, or that I liked the sound of most, with my own favourites chucked in. I've culled anything too crime-y, on the grounds of not cosy enough, and anything too grotesquely twee (though I think a good comfort read often has an element of twee - it's getting the level of tweeness right that's a challenge), or anything too self-consciously literary, on the grounds of there being a time and a place.
I haven't got time to link to each and every one but Google is your friend. So, in no order, apart from Nancy Mitford triumphant in the top spot: here you go - ultimate comfort reads.
The pic is of Marilyn Monroe - it's not the famous Eve Arnold one of her reading James Joyce, on the basis that this list is more James Joyce reading Marilyn, and none the worse for that.
Very charming book trailer for a very charming and brilliant forthcoming novel by Andrew O'Hagan, who I should really point out is a former boyfriend and the father of my daughter. The main thing about Andrew, to other people, is that he has a huge brain and writes exquisite, prize-winning literary novels about desperate, unhappy people in Scotland.
The main thing about Andrew, to me, is that he is extremely, scream-makingly funny, a fact that, um, hasn't always been evident in his novel-writing. It is now. The book, which is narrated by Marilyn Monroe's dog (a Maltese called Maf, who doesn't speak Scottish), is out in May. Alex Garland - The Beach, 28 Days Later - is writing the film script.
I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.
I write books, and things for The Sunday Times. But I wanted a place to stick other stuff I like, and Posterous is unbelievably easy to set up. So here we are. Yet another work-avoidance strategy by me. You can follow me on Twitter, too - I'm @indiaknight. I know, right? The interwebs: where the fun never ends.
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