I am hysterical with love for this book. It is glorious. It's like Shakespeare meets Greek theatre meets everything wonderful about modern literature. Astounding prose, brilliantly funny and heartbreakingly moving. I hugged it when I finished it. I read it in two sittings and I'm going to be sad for a while that it's over. George Saunders, thank you. My book of the year so far and it's going to be hard to beat.

Just finished reading #MadonnaInAFurCoat and I think I might need a moment or two to recover 😥 utterly beautiful.

How gorgeous is this edition of #AllMyFriendsAreSuperheros? Found it in work today and had to have it. Started it and it's already wonderful ❤️

Heard a lot about this book so picked up a copy this afternoon, and thanks to a long bus journey I'm already over halfway through. It's a strange, compelling little volume.

And now for something completely different - I've just finished Ali Smith's Autumn and it was utterly fantastic, but I fancied a change of direction. After watching #RogueOne on Christmas Eve, and then the desperately sad passing of Carrie Fisher, I've been rewatching the original #StarWars trilogy this week, and we got this back in stock at work yesterday. I am feeling the Force right now.

Finally settled on Ali Smith's Autumn as my #FirstReadOfTheYear #FirstReadOf2017
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I've never really been much of a graphic novel person, but I've seen and heard so much about Saga that I decided to give it a go while I'm at home in bed ill. It's brilliant! I want the other 5 published so far! Also, 100 books read this year now, go me! 📖👍🏼

Having read Cynan Jones' #Cove a few days ago - which I *loved* - I decided to dig out my copy of The Dig (pun intended) that I remembered being given years ago.

Finally, Eugenides' Middlesex. Always wanted to read this, more so after listening to it discussed on #BookShambles, so for Q9.25 I couldn't pass it up!

Then I saw this gorgeous little Oxford World Classics pocket edition of Tristram Shandy, and I had to have it. Discovered after that it had all these little bookmarks in left by the previous reader - who only made it to page 153 according to the 'Placemark', a little bit of card that also had 'Death' written on the reverse, ominously.

Was out for the day today and visited a little second hand book stall down on the quay, and picked up a few books. First up, Asimov's The Complete Robot. Never read any Asimov before, but having read his charming introduction and the first couple of stories, I think I'm going to be a fan.

Last night I did that thing where you take four books to bed because you can't decide which to read before sleep. We all do that, right? 😂

Had my eye on the paperback of this book for a while because I'd never seen the hardback, but I one showed up in the reduced section at work so I had to have it! Just look at it, it's a thing of beauty isn't it? The dust jacket is actual a folded circle and the hard cover isn't a plain boring thing. It's gorgeous. #prettybooks

About halfway through Man Booker long listed The Many and it's pretty good. Read half the book in one sitting before falling asleep. It's easy to gobble this book up.

The paperback edition of this wonderful book is out in the UK at the end of August, so I'm rereading it in bed. Thanks to Faber for sending me a copy of the paperback - I'm glad to see the aesthetic of the sublime hardback has not been abandoned!

Only a few pages in and already I'm cackling like a fool. I love Sue Perkins.

Only a few pages in and already I'm cackling like a fool. I love Sue Perkins.

Having read #TheCursedChild (I have many thoughts and not all of them good, so-) I wanted to return to the wizarding world properly. My original reading copies of Harry Potter are so battered and I want to keep them safe, so with my handy staff discount at Waterstones I treated myself to a box set of the paperbacks to read them again. Actually prefer the new adult covers to the new kids covers (UK), so got those instead. 👌🏼

Just finished & I have so many thoughts & so many feelings but I can't pin down what any of them are? I think it was wonderful. I think it was glorious. I think it was overreaching. I think it was horrific. I think I loved it. Heavy but the prose is so spinningly deft? It was so strange. Unexpected.

#amreading Lauren Groff's #fatesandfuries. I've heard a lot about this book and how popular it's been in the US, and the wonderful @windmillbooks sent me a proof. It's a strange beast so far...

Pleasantly surprised by this book. James Franco rather put me off actors-as-writers, but so far Eisenberg is actually a pretty funny writer without being, y'know, Actors Anonymous levels of awful/akin to putting pins under my nails. Nice one Eisenberg! 📖👍🏼

Time for a cult classic! Read about this on The Pool and felt silly for having not read it before. #ValleyOfTheDolls #50years 📖💁🏼

Today I read Emma Cline's novel The Girls and it was as fantastic as everyone said it was. Atmospheric, haunting, sinister, beautiful. Will definitely be reading this one again one day.

Half way through this and it's pretty darned good! Linked vignettes has scorching as the fires of LA that surround them 🔥🔥🔥🔥