Today at my library job: *5th grade girl*: “I just finished reading Little Women and I loved it! Do you have any other books like it?!?” *Me*: “have you read *Anne of Green Gables*?” *Her*: “no” *Me*: “girl, I am about to change your life”

This week, nora 🍐 joins us to celebrate #spinsterseptember! We talk about what makes a spinster novel, Patrick Hamilton's pitch-black humor, and the strange relationships formed during wartime.

Let's not forget that Frank Baker (of Miss Hargreaves fame) said that HIS novel The Birds was the original source, and unsuccessfully sued Hitchcock. Du Maurier later said his book was better than her story.

BOSS: Have you sorted the competition prize money? £12,000 isn’t it? ME [CLEARLY WEARING A BRAND NEW £76 BANDANA]: Yeh something like that

Lovely BLWW books together on the bookcase. I'm currently reading Stories for Summer, which is an excellent collection of writers. A few stories I've read before, but I'm happy to reread those.Simon Thomas British Library Publishing

This Toadie interview is interesting, cos I'm not sure much of that mental health stuff came across onscreen (as he seems to acknowledge) digitalspy.com/soaps/neighbou…

The lads at Unburied Books and I checked in at The Rosamund Tea Rooms to explore the dark literary world of Patrick Hamilton.On the menu, insufferable boarders, sloppy porridge, gin-and-French & the ultimate spinster fight. Blonde vs brunette, place your bets! #spinsterseptember

Watching Heathers for the first time. Did teenagers wear monocles in the 1980s?

This review is the nearest I've ever come to wanting to watch something Marvel

Life hacks and hand cream! Peas in a Podcast #17 stuckinabook.com/life-hacks-and… via Simon Thomas

My most-watched genre of Insta reels is people doing time-lapse videos of totally redecorating a room and people in the comments writing in all lowercase that they preferred it before.

One of the all-time great sitcom lines IMO

Bad news for anyone who shelves books by color: Liz Truss does too.