Chris Addison

So I calm my brain down a bit.

It's the worst sort of book for cortisol.

A pop-up book.

Well, it's just because it's surprising, isn't it?

You turn the page, you're not expecting something to poke out at you.

I... Vagina monologues.

Yes, yes.

In German.

Because it's just less erotic, isn't it?

But I did read a book in German, or tried to read a book in German, because I've spent years trying to learn and failing to learn German.

And so I thought, right, if I read...

I'm going to try and read some books I cannot read.

And that will definitely improve my language skills and not simply demonstrate to me that I still can't work the language.

And therefore, that's one more thing for me to feel bad about when I wake up at four.

What are you reading?

Das Boot?

Die verlorene Ere von Katharina Blum.

I was reading a book called The First Last Day, which is a sort of comic novel by this guy who usually writes thrillers and stuff.

And it's just full of slang that there's no possible chance of me understanding.

And so the experience is really is me just getting four words into a sentence and looking it up on the Kindle and then going another four words and looking that word up on the Kindle.