Here’s a Peter Capaldi bonus for a Sunday night. In 2010 the folks behind The Thick of It put out a spinoff book called The Missing DoSAC Files, which is basically a collection of memos and other communication between the characters. At the start of the 2010s there was a bit of a fad (now faded, sadly) of producing trailers for books for YouTube. For the Thick of It book, they got Peter to read an excerpt from the book as Malcolm Tucker. He doesn’t appear on screen, but it gives us an idea of how amazing a Thick of It audio book read by him would be.
Needless to say, this video comes with a language warning. This IS Malcolm Tucker after all...
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After reading The Missing Dosac Files, I’m 100% convinced that Jamie and Malcom used to send an ‘x’ on the end of their emails to each other, but one time Malcolm accidentally sent an email to someone else with an ‘x’ on the end because it was so instinctive, so now he has to put an ‘x’ on the end of the occasional email to various different people in order to make it seem like something he’s just picked up to be more sarcastic rather than people accusing him of being in a relationship
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Blodg Monster’s Best Books of 2018
Obviously these were not all published in 2018. It’s just the best books I read this year. And no, I do not include the books I’ve reread like the HP books or Jane Eyre.
1. How to be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis
2. Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
3.Eternal Life by Dara Horn
4. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
5. Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton
6. The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
7. The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont
8.Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
9. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
10. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
11. Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. What Happened by Hilary Rodham Clinton
13. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
14. The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
15, 16, 17. the Call the Midwife trilogy by Jennifer Worth
18.Failing Up by Leslie Odom Jr.
19. Rejected Princess by Jason Porath
20. Dr. Turner’s Casebook by Stephen McGann
21. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
22. Herding Cats by Sarah Anderson
23. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
24. As You Wish by Cary Elwes
Honorable Mentions
- The Thick of It: The Missing DOSAC Files by Armando Iannucci
-The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jennoff
-Ms. Marvel Vol 5 Super Famous, Vol 6 Civil War II, and Vol 8 Mecca by G. Willow Wilson
-The Case for Impeachment by Allan J. Lichtman
-The New New Rules by Bill Maher
-Unworthy by Anneli Rufus
-Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
-Audrey at Home by Luca Dotti
-A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
-War Storm by Victoria Aveyard
-The Outsider by Stephen King
-Two Dark Reigns by Kendare Blake
- Lethal White by J.K. Rowling
-Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
-The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
-The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
-Hocus Pocus and the All New Sequel by A.W. Jantha
-Goblins of Labyrinth by Brian Froud and Terry Jones
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