It’s the general election on Thursday! Let’s talk about absolutely anything else! What do you fancy?

We’ve got:

1. The fact that summer reading list season has finally arrived. This is my Glastonbury. I love seeing how many of the 100 best novels of all time I’ve read (never more than 20, but I live in hope).

I love seeing the same recommendations pop up in slightly different places each year – who gets the Cazalet Chronicles this time? Who’s doing Rose Tremain? Who thinks they’re being edgy by announcing they’re fans of Jack Reacher? And who’s nabbed I Capture the Castle as their top comfort read? Who has the confidence to recommend a genuine beach read and who cannot bear to lower themselves and pretend the lightest they go is Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead?

I like seeing books I’ve read and loved make the list – but not quite as much as I love seeing books I’ve read and hated make the list. You need some grit in your enjoyment oyster.

And of course I love taking note of........

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