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Due to a tedious hour and a half spent tidying an already tidy first floor at work today, I have compiled a detailed list of autobiographies I plan to read. I am going to share this list with you so a) you can see how shallow my reading interests are, and b) so I remember them and can get them out the library.

GO:

- Oliver Postgate (creator of Bagpuss and the Clangers. The cover is pink)
- Jo Brand
- Peter Kay (number 2)
- Ant and Dec
- Frankie Boyle
- Jack Dee (only because I met him and the text is massive so will take about an hour to read)
- Bill Bryson
- Barack Obama (so I can legitimately bitch about the millions of copies of it on the shelves if it's crap)
- Justin Lee Collins
- Humphrey Lyttleton
- Alan Titchmarsh (why not)
- Barry Cryer
- Alan Davies
- Ranulph Fiennes (number 2)
- Sheila Hancock (number 2, the one not about John Thaw)

I also want to read (in normal books), Phyllida Law's 'Letters to my mother-in-law', which looks well good, and 'Dear me', letters of celebrities to their 16-year old selves. All high-brow stuff, you understand. Ooh ALSO the last Princess Diaries one, as I never finished the series when I read them all in sixth form by getting FiC to borrow them off her younger sister. SCORE. I think all this quality reading is a violent reaction to only reading Ishiguro for weeks and being forced to give up on 'The Unconsoled' because I just can't be arsed with it.

Also don't say I am being a knob for talking about books now I work in the 'Stones, because this addiction started long ago. I don't read things I can tell customers about. Apart from the children.

In other news, John Barrowman's second book is excellent, Lil's seminar this lunchtime was excellent, I am doing washing finally which is excellent, and I am not at work tomorrow which is excellent. In less excellent news, my bro is having his hernia operation tomorrow re: which I am nervous. But it is excellent in the sense that soon he will be fixed and have a legitimate excuse for being lazy for the next 4-6 weeks.

Going away now. Got to read some poems for tomorrow.

xxx