mariephillips.bsky.social
Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
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Oh cool! I didn’t know she ever read audiobooks
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Me too! I mean, it’s a film featuring a staircase, a dog and a murderer. Come on.
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Ha!
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Massive bullet dodged, though I imagine you’d have done (far) better than this
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I also noticed that. The editors really needed to get more involved with this.
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This amused me cc @paulsharples.bsky.social
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Missed this one. Don’t know whether to look it up or run away screaming
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I really hope it’s someone who (a) can write and (b) knows something about food. It doesn’t seem too much to ask.
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Thank you!
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Ooh thank you, will investigate
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Hmm, I have not read the book but I wouldn’t say this is especially funny!
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Me too 😂 They are doing a great job at least of demonstrating that reviewing restaurants is difficult
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Incredible
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More chalk-or-charcoal Morecambe and Wise. It really does look like someone's hand-painted an entire episode.
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I know. It broke my heart adorably.
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Oh that's lovely. Good choice your Dad.
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Reading through the replies, I may be the only living person who’s had one, entirely out of curiosity having seen them turn up in Nancy Mitford (or similar). They’re good.
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I was turned onto words by the song Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick long before I could read, which is also why Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was my favourite book when I was six. I couldn’t understand either of them really, but the words were just so good.
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That line!
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Can’t wait to read it, it sounds fascinating!
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Hurray! So glad you enjoyed it
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Haha!
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I read book one and didn’t like it, was told that it didn’t really get good until book 2. Read book 2, didn’t like it, was told it didn’t get good until book 3, at which point I thought: there is a much quicker way of dealing with this situation.
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She’s a beautiful woman, so this is not unexpected
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Ditto
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Episode 7 is insanely good
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This is why I won’t watch it again. I’m not sure I was particularly aware of these things at that age. I hope Out of Africa has aged better, but it’s a white woman in Kenya so…
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I was a sucker for any doomed love story that felt epic and sweeping and made me cry. I’m not sure that I applied a lot of quality control. I remember also being crazy for Gone With The Wind and Out of Africa. I haven’t rewatched any of them as an adult.
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I adored Dr Zhivago when I was eight. This is not a recommendation.
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I totally lost track with Dior, sometime around when they kept sending Jennifer Lawrence out in see-through dresses with those Dior-printed-waistband white boxer briefs underneath. Since then all I hope for from them is ‘not that’