#reading checklist

I'm not going to call it the public shame list because we're abandoning shame in 2026 but. I have an overwhelming amount of library checkouts and holds right now and I need to get on top of those. so.

no new book checkouts, purchases, or loans until I've finished at least three of these books I'm reading for fun

You Had Me At Hola (Alexis Daria)

Notes of a Crocodile (Qiu Miaojin)

Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata) 

Till Summer Do Us Part (Meghan Quinn) 

AND until I return at least three of these books I currently have out for research:

Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasure of Fantasy (Leslie Bow)

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out (Jeremy Atherton Lin)

Asian American Sexualities (ed. Russell Leong)

I'm out and about right now, and I want to do a final check to make sure it's 100% accurate, but once I hope to post it by Tuesday

Things I need to do before Reading

Fake tan myself so I don't look like a multicoloured, half vampire half Jamaican bitch. 

Make sure my skin looks nice without any makeup on. 

Pluck eyebrows and other unsightly hairs. 

File, paint and generally sort out nails. 

Collect funding from banking establishment. 

Sort out where I'm camping. 

Things I will need for Reading

TICKET

Money

Identification to prove I can buy alcoholic beverages

Tent

Sleeping bag

Pillow

Blow up mattress 

DMs. (no wellies this year cos they're too small for me) 

Extra pair of shoes (converse perhaps)

Bin liners (to put stuff in)

3 pairs of shorts 

3 pairs of jeans

4 pairs of knick-knacks

4 bras

4 pairs of socks

1 lesbian shirt 

1 denim shirt 

1 jumper 

2 cardigans 

4/5 t-shirts

1 leather jacket

Sunglasses

Baby wipes

Deodorant

Body spray

Toothbrush

Toothpaste

Cigarettes (3 packs)

Vodka (2 bottles)

Mary-jane (£40 worth)

Rizzla

Tobacco

Makeup (to include:

Moisturiser 

Foundation

Foundation brush 

Powder

Bronzer

Eyeshadow

Liquid eyeliner

Eyebrow pencil 

Mascara 

Eyeliner

Lippy

Dry shampoo

Hairspray)