He was trying very hard and I hope he has since found the right person, and that they sit in pubs reading random bits out of Folio Society editions at each other

I did not but I DID get in the hired rowing boat that he insisted we take on the river so he could demonstrate his rowing. He brought the book with us, obviously.

I once went on a first date with a bloke who was carrying - not in a bag, not in his pocket, carrying in his hand - a hardback copy of Lady Windermere's Fan. He kept opening and reading bits mid-date. Standards are slipping.

IDK who Jane Fairfax is murdering but Emma has suspicions

Yes! and don't get me started on candles...

I just think you should know who washes the clothes in your fictional world

I mean The Lobster has basically the same plot anyway

Yorgos Lanthimos adapts Belinda is the only Belinda I'll accept

Honestly, I can sort of see the appeal? It's dainty! Also this was 1942 so I assume that a mars represented like six months' rationing points

This is laser-focused at a particular kind of elderly millennial, isn't it (ie. me)