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 My first blog post was in March 2008. Excuse my massive ego, but how awesome am I? So okay, I don't write all the time, and mostly it's about movies and books and TV, with one unfortunate positive post about Celebrity Apprentice , but that's 13 years, yo. I'm proud of that. So now that I have a new laptop and don't just have my iPhone, I will make a real attempt to write more, hopefully about something interesting. Ooh here's one. I've been watching The Great Pottery Throwdown  on HBO Max, and I love that show. I mean, anytime British people are baking or crafting, I'm here for it. But I don't know anything about pottery, so I was weary about this show. I mean, I tried the one where the people make knives and swords, and I tried the one about glass blowing, and neither of those worked for me. But there was something about watching people make ceramics on a pottery wheel that was really nice to watch. So of course, what's next? I think I want to

 When You  was published, it was like nothing I had ever read before, or since, for that matter. I was in the head of Joe Goldberg, an obsessive murdering stalker who made you root for him. And it was amazing. So amazing, that Netflix optioned it and made it into a series, which is equally amazing even if it doesn't follow the book plot the way all of us book nerds would like. Then Caroline Kepnes [who you should really be following on Twitter because she's hilarious] wrote a follow-up, also starring Joe Goldberg, titled Hidden Bodies . Because the first book was so amazing, I had high hopes for the second, which is usually disappointing. And this was too - the book was great, but not as great as the first, and I figured this is where the series would end. The writing was great but the plot was a little too fantastical. But I'm a huge fan of Kepnes, so when You Love Me , the third in the installment, was announced, I of course pre-ordered on Amazon because even if it was ba