• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maughm
• Hunger - Knut Hamsun
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of unextinguishable regrets. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then lif...

Excluding drama, poetry, criticism, and all other non-fiction works.

Read , Reading .

Ordered chronologically by the year of the author's birth. If you're not organising your books chronologically then I'm afraid you're doing it wrong.

• Johann Goethe (1749)
  • The Sorrows of Young Werther
• Mary Shelley (1797)
  • Frankenstein
• William Thackeray (1811)
  • Vanity Fair
• Charles Dickens (1812)
  • Great Expectations
• Knut Hamsun (1859)

Books

• The Magic Toyshop
• The Abhorsen Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen)

Films

• In Bruges (tw suicidal themes)
• If.... (I'm not sure whether to warn for sexual abuse but there are some uncomfortable situations between the older and younger students)

TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (IT'S MY LIFEBLOOD)
• The Vicar of Dibley (it's funny and super cute)
• The Crimson Petal and the White (also read the book too!)
• The Good Life (again super cute one of the best British sitcoms that you might not...

Feet

• 7 - 71/2
• Dislocate often
• Very calloused
• Long and thin

Shins

• Band of very thick hair that stops suddenly

Knees

• Some scars

Thighs

• Stretch marks on inner thigh
• First time I remember being conscious about my weight was as a child being told while swimming that I "have really fat thighs"
• Patch of eczema on right thigh

Groin

Comedy

• The Good Life
• The Vicar of Dibley
• Fawlty Towers
• Blackadder
• Peep Show
• Father Ted
• Black Books
• Fresh Meat

Drama

• Skins
• Sherlock
• Scenes from a Marriage
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Angel
• Firefly
• Dollhouse
• Black Mirror
• Mad Men
• Game of Thrones

• Coffee
  • All coffee as long as it doesn't have anything gross like caramel or cinnamon in it
  • Seriously what is that shit who drinks caramel
  • I can do mocha but that's it
• Deer
  • Especially red deer fawns
• Waking up early
• Showers
• Watching shitty horror films with partner and eating junk food
• Talking to friends
• Getting in the writing zone and managing to write quality material for hours
• The library
  • Everything about it

• 7.30: Up, breakfast, check the internet.
  • Reduce to 6.30 once sleep schedule is fixed
• 8-12: Work
• 12-1: Lunch, shower, dress
• 1-5: Work
• 5-6: Either laundry/groceries/washing up/cleaning
• 6: Dinner
• 7: 15mins flute
  • 30 minutes writing
  • In whatever order you feel like
• 7.30: Read text book
• 8.30: Internet
• 10: Absolute latest go to bed

• Improve my Latin so I can read anything fluently
• Learn enough Ancient Greek to read Sappho in the original
• Learn music theory
• Visit America
• Go on a multi-day camping/hiking holiday
• Write a novel
• Have sex (loosely defined) with someone I find attractive
• Read certain books which I will put on a separate list
• Watch certain films which I will put on a separate list
• Continue to practise the flute
• Get a lectureship
• Take some form of recreational drug
• Dance with someone
• Eat lots of delicious food
• Learn to like my reflection

I gave up organising these into genres pretty quickly. Folk, Country, Etc.

• Laura Veirs
• Nick Drake
• Bob Dylan
• Low
• Emiliana Torrini
• Hem
• Mazzy Star

Pop

• Lana Del Rey
• Laika
• The Beatles
• The Corrs
• Talking Heads
• Radiohead
• David Bowie
• Gorillaz
• Aimee Mann
• Avril Lavigne

• Sappho, "Some an Army of Horsemen..."
• Clare, "I Am"
• Rossetti (Christina obvs; Dante can go fuck himself), "Acme"
• Teasdale, "And There Will Come Soft Rains"
• Yeats, "Cloths of Heaven"
• Auden, "Lullaby"
• Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

• Happy-Go-Lucky ****
• Quarantine 2 *
• Monsters University **
• Sunshine ****
• The Great Gatsby (Luhrmann) **
• Sinister **
• Insidious ***
• The Conjuring ***
• Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon) ****
• Alpha Papa ***
• Event Horizon **
• Infection **
• Star Trek: Into Darkness *
• Biutiful ****
• Garden State *
• An Education **
  • I'm just really pissed at this film for setting up a moral quandary in the first two thirds and resolving it by bringing in new information in the final act that wo...

There are other bands/musicians whose music as a whole I like more than these individual tracks, but this is my list just narrowing it down to 16 top tracks. I was going to do 20 but those 4 places just jostled through too many contenders. These are my 100% top tier love them to death songs. One song per band/musician allowed.

• Explosions in the Sky - Have You Passed Through This Night?
• Portishead - Glory Box
• Mazzy Star - Common Burn
• Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way
• Gorillaz - Hong Kong
• Astronautalis - Skeleton
• Hem - Lazy Eye
• Maurissa Tancharoen - Remains
• Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
• Low - Point of Disgust
• Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman's Woman

That I Own

• Astronautalis - This Is Our Science
  • You and Yer Good Ideas
• Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
• The Beatles - No. 1 Collection
• Blink 182 - Best Of
• Bob Dylan - Best Of
• The Corrs - Best Of
  • Borrowed Heaven
• Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle
• Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
• Gorillaz- Demon Days
  • Gorillaz
• Elton John - Live Album
• Laika - Good Looking blues
  • Wherever I Am I I Am What Is Missing
• Low - Trust

• Fire
• Salt in cuts
• Hands bound above head
• Cold water
• Sleep deprivation
• Forced eating unpleasant items, especially insects
• Collars
• Marking
• Steel restraints
• Low ceiling cells/cages
• Interested in electrotorture but not a fan of its impersonality
• Reopening wounds
• Pulling teeth
• A mouth full of blood

1st Yr BA

• Intro to Writing------1st
• Intro to Theory-------2.1
• Modern Literature-----1st
• Medieval Literature---2.1

Average: 1st

2nd Yr BA

• Screenwriting---------1st
• Creative Writing------2.1
• European Literature---1st
• 17th-19thC Poetry-----1st

Average: 1st

3rd Yr BA

• Shakespeare-----------1st
• Modern Literature II--1st
• American Literature---1st
• Dissertation----------2.1

Average: 1st

BA Grade: 1st class

Unfinished

• The Idiot - Dostoevsky
• The Plague - Camus
• Infinite Jest - DFW
• Mary - Nabokov
• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• Manhood for Amateurs - Chabon
• Pnin - Nabokov
• Game of Thrones

Unstarted

• War and Peace - Tolstoy
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• Titus Alone - Mervyn Peake

Unbought

• The Luminaries
• 1984
• Something by Austen