David Cook

You too!

This is great as ever, Rick.

The Long Walk is 2025’s most brutal film – and a reminder of Stephen King’s roots Too many King adaptations have been cautious, fastidiously reverent affairs, which is why it’s so gratifying to find one that has been allowed some breathing room – and space to be a little lurid, wri...

I wasn't expecting much, but this is a terrific film. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Had my first mince pie of the year just now. I refuse to feel guilty about that.

This is so brilliant!

Brilliant.

Features like this are weird. I used to work in the food hall at M&S, but I wouldn't use that fact to presume a position of authority on what the best sandwiches ever are.

Finally!

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Sunny is great, btw.

When you get invested in a TV show, series one ends on a cliffhanger, then you find out it's not getting a series 2.

Oh my, this week's episode of Severance though...

Cartoon caption: The fourth pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. A large grey wolf is staring at a little pig’s house made of skulls.

I actually wrote stories! Two of them! And submitted them! Wonders will never cease.

I'm excitedly awaiting the rejections.

Goodbye Sadie. Your flame burned short, but so bright. The mice and birds round here won't miss you at all, but we will. Sleep well.

A book named Tender is the Flesh.

Well, this one's gonna stay with me for ages. The most disturbing, dark, brilliant book I've read in a good while.

Great stuff, Dan.

Wrote a story for the first time in, oh, six or seven months. I'm not saying it's good, mind you, but it's great to get back to it.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

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Happy New Year, everyone!

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄
🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

Look at the difference in covers between autobiographies by men and those by women. Look how tedious and serious the men's books are, with their grey and black colour schemes. I'm not afraid to read a book with a bit of fucking orange on the cover. But presumably publishers think most men are. Sigh.

Makes sense.

Each year, the Christmas decorations go up in my local Spar and they think, 'sod it, break out the Easter chocolate'. I sigh inwardly each time, curse their ridiculousness, and then buy Mini Eggs.

There's a McDonald's radio ad for Happy Meals, which talks tells you (or your kid most likely) can choose to get a Grinch toy or book with it. It ends with the words "Choice of toy or book is between book or toy." This is a weird sentence. It baffles me. What is its purpose?

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

Four series of it on Netflix. Once you've seen one episode, mind you, you've seen them all.

I've seen more of the TV show Is It Cake than I probably should. This story made me chuckle.