Consumption 16

This is a monthly series, published near the end of the month summarizing what I found, ate, watched, googled, and felt this month. New categories added from time to time.

Books Added to My TBR (e.g., books I just learned about that I’m excited to read… maybe)

• The Lowe Job (Grace Alexander)
• Valley of the Moms (Hannah Selinger)
• An Unlikely Visitor (Joanna Cannon)
• I Love You, I Love You, I Love You (Laura Dockrill)
• Alan Opts Out (Courtney Maum)
• The One Day You Were My Husband (Rosie Walsh)
• Fruit Fly (Josh Silver)
• Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• The Ballad of Ronan McCoy (Colin Morgan)
• Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil (Oliver Darkshire)
• Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hide a Body (Jennifer Holdich)
• A Planet Called Happy (Riley August)
• That Night (Gillian McAllister)

Notable Meals (new recipes, old favorites, and restaurant items we ate this month)

• Gnocchi alla Sorrentina at Da Mario.
• A vegetarian fry-up with potato bread.
• Fusilli pastore (pasta, pine nuts, spinach, cream sauce).

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• We finished Last One Laughing UK, season 2, and it was fantastic. We missed the comedians from the first season, but we welcomed the new ones. Favourite moments: Jimmy’s prank on Romesh and the animal head-to-head session.
• We started Taskmaster, series 21. Delightful discovery: competitor Joanna Page is Just Judy from Love, Actually. We laughed hard every time Kumail Nanjiani left the room during a task, and Amy Gledhill and Joel Dommett would whisper to each other, “He’s so famous!”
• We watched so many episodes of The Chase while in the UK. I wish we could watch it here. Also Four in a Bed, which is on Tubi over here.

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “The Feminine Urge” (The Last Dinner Party)

Tabs I Left Open (things I Googled and left up on the screen)

• An article from 2019 about “Soviet Soldiers Dancing” from Twitter because we were talking about it.
• A menu for Honey & Co in London.
• A map of the ice cream trail in Maryland.
• The website for Hypnos mattresses.
• Jeremy Lee recipes on the BBC.
• The Wikipedia page for The Famous Five.
• A website about chalk horses in Wiltshire.

Micro-Joys

• Getting caught by the tide in St. Ives and running through the water back to land.
• Going to the amusement park with my nephews. I got dizzy on a ride, and my 7-year-old nephew said he would protect me by not having it spin, but then also let me know that because this was going to be less fun, he would like to go on the ride again. I love that kid.
• Talking to the kids at night and hearing about their travels.

Mood

• Trying to lean hard into only happy things.

What about you? Let me know what you’re eating, seeing, listening to, googling, feeling this month.