books read and tv/movies watched in 2026

[lirazel]

1. The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth
4. Ann the Word by Nardi Reeder Campion
5. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
6. Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
7. Ann the Word by Richard Francis
8. Abolish the Family by Sophie Lewis
9. Cinder House by Freya Marske
10. Football by Chuck Klosterman
11. Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read
12. Disney High by Ashley Spencer
13. Furious Minds by Laura K. Field
14. The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates
15. Erasing History by Jason F. Stanley
16. Disciples of White Jesus by Angela Denker
17. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
18. Like, Follow, Subscribe by Fortesa Latifi
19. True Grit by Charles Portis
20. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
21. Culture Creep by Alice Bolin
22. More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
23. The House of the Patriarch by Barbara Hambly
24. God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn
25. Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
26. The Quiet Damage by Jesselyn Cook
27. Magic Flutes by Eva Ibbotson


1. Heated Rivalry complete series
2. The Pitt season 1*
3. The Cult Behind the Killer
4. Love Has Won complete series
5. Breath of Fire complete series
6. The Testament of Ann Lee
7. Bridgerton season 4
8. The National Theater's The Importance of Being Earnest
9. Lawrence of Arabia
10. Project Hail Mary
11. True Grit
12. The Librarians
13. The Pitt season 2
14. The Guns of Navarone

Comments

[dollsome]

Oh gosh, it's time to start over again already!

[chestnut_pod]

May it be a good year! And what a way to start.

(Miss you around here; sending good thoughts. Also… in a Chanukah miracle, I have started watching The Pitt, so Lirazel fic, here I come.)

[lirazel]

Thank you so, so much! I'm sending you good thoughts too! I'm feeling close to ready to come back, so I'll talk with you soon, I know!

Oh my gosh, I have two equal and opposing thoughts re: you watching my show: absolute delight that you picked this show to be one of the very, very few that you watch, because it is so well done, it really is AND omg no don't read my fic the way I crashed out over this ship is so embarrassing!!!

(I mean, you can read it if you want to, of course! Just saying that I do not expect you to even ship my ship, much less want to read my very iddy and self-indulgent fic about them!)

[chestnut_pod]

Yay, I’ll look forward to it <3

It was really good! I got super sick around the new year and couldn’t read (tragic!), so I watched Heated Rivalry and then The Pitt and enjoyed them in equal but quite different measure. I hadn’t had that new fandom rush in ages, especially for Heated Rivalry. That’s a rare and precious thing, so I don’t think you should be embarrassed!

I think I would really enjoy some Robby/Collins, in addition. I’m a multi shipper for real, though, so it’s all good!

[lirazel]

I'm so sorry to hear you were sick! So sick that you couldn't read???? That should never happen! I hope you're feeling a lot better!

I am definitely working a lot of my Issues in my fic--I've never projected so much onto a character in my life as I have onto Mel King. So if it's not to your taste, I 1000000% understand!

I am really, really missing Collins this season! Their dynamic was so interesting!