Spending 10 days confined to bed in hospital getting filmed 24/7 (yay
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Preparing meticulously since once I ended up stuck on the neuro ward with no phone, broke my glasses which in turn meant I had both stitches and an eye patch, so spent a week reading the one book they had on the ward with the page four centimetres away from my one “good” eye.
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Focusing on the positive atm, like pretending I’m going to get tonnes of reading and writing done, rather than the fact I’m confined to bed 24/7 being filmed except in the toilet, have to sleep deprive myself and am not allowed to shower whatsoever til I’m discharged
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Paul Foot - The Vote: How it was won and how it was undermined. Olga Lengyel - Five Chimneys
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Seth Rogans book is pretty funny if you like stories about drugs
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The Burning of Bridget Cleary, by Angela Bourke (mad faery paranoia); Lady Audley's Secret, by Mary E Braddon. Armadale by Wilkie Collins (both have wicked Victorian women as protagonists).
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Middlemarch is a great read. Though I doubt I’ll ever read it again.
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I haven’t read it since undergrad, wonder if I still have my annotated copy...
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Naomi Novic Spinning Silver The Birthday Boys Beryl Bainbridge A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine, Marina Lewycka They All Fall DownTammy Cohen The Lady and the Unicorn Tracy Chevalier Non-fiction The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks which is fascinating
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Am actually writing something on Sacks at the moment by chance!
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Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life for any kind of locked-in period.
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Very good call.
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