#1 Things I've been obsessed with this week.

The rom-com that soothed my soul, a dirty little thriller for a rainy afternoon, and the podcast everyone is talking about.

Hello!

Two weeks ago, I left my dream job. I made this decision after I realised the last thing I wanted to do was look up in a year and find myself in exactly the same place.

So I took a leap of faith and backed myself for the first time in my life.

The day after I finished up, I wandered over to my book pile hoping to find a book that would break The Great Reading Slump of 2023.

I wanted to be comforted and reminded of the beauty of storytelling.

I picked up an advance reading copy of Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy and immediately found myself drawn to the story of Sally Milz, a ‘mousey’ writer on a fictional version of Saturday Night Live, who is constantly overlooked and who believes great things don’t happen to people like her.

After yet another one of her awkward male colleagues begins dating a ridiculously attractive celebrity, she pitches a skit about how it never happens in the reverse.

Then it happens to her.

Romantic Comedy is a, uh, romantic comedy but it’s also a clev…