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I read Middlemarch recently. It's the best novel I've ever read - and I don't think I'll ever read any better.

I read this: and this:

"Sango Pater" by Jan Van Banjenck. I want really this book. Someone it is checked it dies with a human condition inside of of time in the exceptional details. Enough piece of furniture.

In many ways, like Thumped?

Just finished reading Peter Carey's debut - The Fat Man in History. It's a bunch of short stories all set in some quite strange, vaguely dystopian places in a futuristic Australia. A suburban Mad Max, if you will. They're not bad, except a lot of them end in a fairly open-ended way. I've also...

Read the play Copenhagen by Michael Frayne earlier in the week. It's cracking stuff.

I read a lot of the Selected Poems from Roger McGough. He's lots of fun. And tonight, Matthew, I will be reading Copenhagen by Michael Frayn.

I'm reading. In many ways, reading this makes me feel like Arthur Murphy.

Being the Richard Madeley of Thumped, I've just finished Cloud Atlas. Wasn't that impressed. The Sonmi story was pretty cool, as was the Luisa Rey one. But it's very derivative. Now reading Norwegian Wood - which is so far, so good. Why am I telling an internet board this? I just don't know...

Louis Theroux's book about "Weird" America. That guy's a bit of a sap. Cloud Atlas as well - not too gone on it. Decent enough short stories but really derivative. And loads of poetry. Kamau Brathwaite and his Limbo stuff... Roger McGough... Moniza Alvi... Moniza Alvi... Moniza Alvi.

Started on the first Flashman book.

Just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy. One thing I could never get is how the hell did buildings accomodate all those dæmons?

It is. Not liking it in the slightest and I'll stop reading it today. If I see the word bourgeois again, I'll tidy up.

Now it's Steppenwolf! Disgrace is a good book.

Currently leafing through JM Coetzee's Disgrace. From what I can make it out so far, it's about a South African David Mellor.

Read the Wasp Factory by Iain Banks last night. A baby with no skull and maggots eating it's brain being one of the many highlights.

Haven't read Money yet. I've only read three of his books. London Fields is hilarious and you should read it. Time's Arrow is very well written and is also highly recommended. Success is okay... not nearly as good as his later works. So far (only a few pages in), The Information seems like...

I'm reading Martin Amis' The Information. Harry Potter is to follow. And then that book Longtitude. Have just finished Shuttlecock, Ever After and The Light of Day from Graham Swift. None of them stand out from the others, but they all have some excellent passages. Currently, my passage...