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The new Camera Obscura album is great, imo, and stands up against their best. It doesn’t feel like a comeback but more of a continuation despite everything that’s happened since Desire Lines.

I think people can underplay just how bad we were before Clarke took over that season. I remember being at Fir Park when Motherwell turned us over 2-0. Broadfoot was so bad that the Motherwell fans were cheering his name.

It felt like an incredibly manufactured argument to fill airtime. Stewart jumped in head first, full throttle looking to make an argument, rather than make a point. I turned it off just after that. It was an absolute rabble.

Looks like they’ve turned up at Larry David’s house

Really enjoying the new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. I think I like it even more than the last album, which I played a lot.

Add me to the people who enjoyed One Day. I really enjoy these types of stories (see also Normal People from a couple of years ago). Despite being nothing like the main characters I found myself relating to them in one way or another.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. A dying man trying to come to terms with what’s happening and how he got there. I liked it but I’m not sure I really liked any of the characters.

I use The Storygraph; assume most of these apps are the same but I’d saw some recommendations for it and downloaded it. Let’s you track what you’re reading, gives recommendations etc.

I listened to Live and Let Die last year. Not a great book but made all the more…interesting…by Rory Kinnear trying to do a load of black Harlem accents.

I use audible when I’m driving; usually easier stories that you can follow while you’re concentrating on the road. I like it for that. I'm reading War and Peace this year, a chapter a day, and instead of taking the book on holiday I decided to get the audiobook with one of my audible credits. It’s absolutely awful as the narrator gives everyone terrible English accents. I get that it’d probably sound daft if he was putting on Russian accents for most of the characters but it put me right off it until I got home and started reading the book again.

My parents got my 2 year old daughter a load of large soft play blocks, ramps, mats etc for her birthday last year. So much so that we wouldn’t have had the space to lay it all out or store it properly. I was livid when they brought it in the house; took about 4 trips to the car. They were told to take it back and rein it in, which didn’t go down too well.

I listened to the audiobook of Matthew Perry’s book not long after it was released and thought it was very frank (in a good way) and honest. It was read by him so it made it all the more so. On audiobooks, I usually listen to these while driving, and started to make my way through the James Bond series last year. The stories themselves hold up quite well but Bond (Fleming?) comes across horribly sometimes. I guess it’s just of it’s time. They’re read by some pretty famous actors so have still been enjoyable enough. I’m about half way through the series just now.

I just finished this tonight and also loved it. I hadn’t a clue which direction is was going to go in after the end of the first episode and some of it is absolutely bonkers, but that’s all part of the charm.

1. The Wire 2. Deadwood 3. Twin Peaks 4. Peep Show 5. Lost 6. The Office (UK) 7. Spiral 8. The Simpsons 9. Friday Night Lights 10. Normal People

That album always brings back good memories of my uni days. I saw them twice live around that time at the abc in Glasgow and then a few years ago at their comeback, of sorts, at St. Luke’s. There was supposed to be a new album in the works but I haven’t heard anything about it for a while now.

I didn’t mind Osman too much on Pointless but his twitter feed was insufferable, self-satisfied drivel. I fully expect his books to be in the same vein.

It took me 2-3 chapters to get used to the language but it’s a great book once you do. It’s amazing how you get used to it.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Really interesting take on a whodunnit set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war. The title character is dead and trying to find out who killed him. Thought this was great. It won the Booker Prize last year but I hadn’t really seen any publicity for it.

I find audiobooks of autobiographies quite good if it’s the person reading it. Bob Mortimer’s was great. It took me time to get used to them, but I tend to listen now if I’m driving. I’ve just bought a Hobbit/LOTR book set 2nd hand from eBay, as I had a notion for something a bit different from my usual reads. If and when I get round to them, I’ll let you know how it goes.

Even looking back, I’d say the majority of them hold up quite well. Obviously times moved on, but something like Super Mario World still looks and plays pretty well. I was playing some SNES games on Switch, and Donkey Kong Country, which I thought looked amazing at the time, has really aged poorly in comparison.

At the end of last season I’d probably have been content with re-signing Donnelly as a squad player but that was before we signed up Lyons/Polworth and kept a hold of McInroy. We’ve essentially just swapped Power for Magennis and went with it again. We’ve definitely improved other positions, on paper, but badly need at least one more option upfront.

It depends what you’re interested in. He’s written books that’re a lighter read than Brighton Rock. Give Our Man In Havana a go, or for something more intense, try The Power and The Glory. I’m enjoying the book I’m currently ready. It’s a bit of a whodunnit with a twist, and set against the Sri Lankan civil war.

Chernobyl Prayer is incredibly interesting but you’re right, it’s a depressing account. I dipped in and out of it when I read it. Took me a while to read. On Graham Greene, I’ve read 5 of his books this year and enjoyed them all in different ways. I’ve got another couple to read but taking a break from him and reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida just now.

I’ve watched the first 2 eps so far. What an incredible bunch of contestants.