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Read this at lunchtime, took all of 10 minutes. A little book of rhyming aphorisms with cutesy drawings. Published in 1970. It reminds me of some of David Shrigley's stuff or Leviathan by Peter Blegvad. There's about 20 volumes more apparently. I hadn't heard about any of this carry-on until...

I read a thing called Seven Short Stories over the weekend. It's a collection of Czech and Slovak (guess what?) short stories. All pretty good, apart from the first one which is sentimental rubbish by someone called Dus̆an Kuz̆el. The Hrabal story I'd read before in a different translation and...

OMG. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was such an elitist dick.

Oh, man. What book didn't I read last night...

Found this in a bin liner. A collection of Hašek's short stories. I'll be reading it next.

Wouldn't mind reading that sometime actually.

Not the Song of Solomon anyway, that's nearly as filthy as The Fermata.

Work + study. You know yourself.

Go on then. Joking aside, I'd quite like to read Sleepwalker by John Toomey (published by Dalkey Archive Press=BONER). It should be easy to get hold of. I won't have time for the Thumped Book Club before June though.

Oh, nothing. After we've all read it we can come on here and debate how exactly we should categorize it. It'll be great.

Okay then, I choose The Fermata by Nicholson Baker... KIDDING.

Started this, but I'm only going to read the introduction and 'Bartleby' for now. I is John Today I bought: Tintin in the Congo by Hergé Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori My most RACIST evening of book buying ever. That reminds me...

Don't bother John, Martin Amis says he's got no talent: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7080509/Martin-Amis-criticises-Nobel-writer-JM-Coetzee-for-having-no-talent.html LOLOLOLOLOL

That'll be the brain damage.

I'd been meaning to read it for a while. Found the Pushkin edition in my local library, read it, didn't particularly enjoy it, couple of days later I found the other one in the secondhand section of Chapters. Thought I'd give it another go. Ah, sure I'll read anything. Twice if necessary.

Last couple of days, two translations: A novel about a precocious teenager who has an affair with a married woman, written by a precocious teenager who had an affair with a married woman. About as unobnoxious as you could reasonably expect it to be. Quite good. The second one there is...

See also: George Orwell Sure this is it.

Phil Space

Amis's outbursts and, more pointedly, their dopey coverage in the UK papers have been a joke for years. I wouldn't worry too much. None of it negates children's literature. None of it negates that he is/was a genius (I haven't read much of the recent stuff) imho. A genius and an arrogant...

btw did you see this the other day? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/11/martin-amis-brain-injury-write-children LOL