Lee Randall

Asleep on the job

It’s #worldbookday so a good day to say that I will be back on a bookshop and library tour from late April - dates still being added but quite a few up here

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Not only correct but you'll probably be awarded damages!

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I will be honest, I have never once found him sexy in anything I have seen him in. But in person, that day, whoa!

I think it benefited from general horniness.

I didn’t know East Kildbride had Chinese spies. Thought it only had roundabouts.

I am sore tempted. I watched it as high comedy, the way I watched Dynasty.

I interviewed John Hannah once, can’t remember why, and he was delightful in the extreme and—and trust me this came as a body blow of a surprise to me—insanely, seemingly effortlessly SEXY.

In other words, highly (hilariously) recommended.

Oooooh, Spermicus* is streamable on Ch 5! If you like nonstop sex, fighting, utter silliness, and wall to wall glistening muscles, this is for you. Also contains John Hannah and Lucy Lawless in a sex scene so outrageously funny that I laughed myself off my sofa when it happened.

*Spartacus

Another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about.

@argentology.bsky.social has bought a copy of "A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides" by Gisele Pelicot for me to give away to someone who'd appreciate it.

Get in touch if this is something you'd like to read. DM if you prefer.

UK only.

Started watching Instinct because I am fond of lovely, sassy Alan Cumming. The continuity person must have been on heavy meds. Alan’s hair is different in every scene. Colour, shape, etc. And not as a quirky character trait.

More amazing #buyastrangerabook day magic!

@hierath77.bsky.social will buy one lucky person the book of their choice, up to £20.

So, if there's a books you're after, just ask!

UK only

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The Intricate World of Literary Jumble Sales Bring Out Your Jumble, and your Literary Jumble Sales  Now here’s a post that’s been long-promised and a long-time-coming. Given that we d...

Of course one day we were going to do literary jumble sales on Clothes in Books. And the day has come. From Barbara Pym to Mapp and Lucia, with a surprise teaser from Graham Greene. With pictures. Please add your own favourites and mentions.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

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I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you.

@mikecooperrp.bsky.social has sent me £20 to buy someone a book with.

So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch.

Any book at all, not just what's on my website.

UK only.

Hey Edinburgh. . . I bought one of these walking pads a while back (not THIS brand, but it's sure enough pink). I seem not to use it, after all. Anyone fancy buying it? You have to uplift as I've no car for deliveries. Say £85. Lightly used and I can throw in the lubricant.

'Zactly.

God I feel like an old broad in a caftan sitting on a Miami sun lounger trading hospital stories!

Oh, mine didn't beep. (But suddenly remembering the bliss of pressing the button to release more morphine... apart from the way morphine made my face itch.)

I hate a drip. When my appendix exploded a healthy pal came to visit and I had to wee and she saw me dragging the pole to the loo and asked why I didn't leave it at the bed. . . when I stopped laughing I said, "You don't have much experience with medicine, do you?"

Oh, Rose . . . [some personal news]

Meanwhile, back in the land of human-generated text, @uchicagopress.bsky.social is reissuing Sally Benson's novel Meet Me in St. Louis, I've written the foreword, and you should (please) consider preordering the living heck out of it.

He's a hoot IRL. (Opinion based on doing one event together, I don't mean to suggest we're buddies.)

Yes this one offers a wealth of confusing times when one may contact the surgery and for what, and they all contradict each other and in practice, it's a miracle getting to see a doctor.

That would do it. During the worst of my Crohn's I could not stand up or get out of bed, except for quick crawling to the loo.

This is not to downgrade cancer one wee bit, but with cancer you can usually still summon help. . .

Guess we tailor our fears to our circumstances, she said, highlighting the blindingly obvious.

GP waiting room has a big screen displaying Informative Information. Which is how I learned that British people fear cancer more than they fear getting stabbed. (No comment re: probabilities there.) I realised that as an alone person, I am WAY more afraid of having a stroke. Or dementia.

P.S Highlight of the day was the happy singing security guard at the entrance to Westminster calling me (someone not so far off the age of 50) "young lady".... yay to FFP3 masks covering up decades of laughter lines 😂