Books I've actually finished lately: 132

I FUCKING LOVE JUICE.

Books I've actually finished lately: 129

Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 14

Witty window-dressing from the Somerset House Tintin exhibition (til January 30th).

Books I've actually finished lately: 69

All his life, Dave had been bald.
Barely a hair anywhere on his person at all.
(Bar the bristles in his brows... and one under his nose)
But apart from those,
Dave was as smooth as a bowling ball.
(Hence the wig.)

- Stephen Collins

Books I've actually finished lately: 58

Facebooks - II

Because Tuesday's child is also full of books.

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Leonard Woolf: A Life - Victoria Glendinning
The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry - ed. The Enthusiast (Ian Sansom     and others)
An Historical Relation of Ceylon... (etc.) - Robert Knox
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Iliad - Homer
V for Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Shah of Shahs - Ryszard Kapuściński
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Collected Short Stories - Roald Dahl
The Libertine - Stephen Jeffreys

Facebooks - I

So, this thing is going round that you name ten books that had a major impact on you.

Ten books is not enough.

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The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Disgrace - JM Coetzee
Oscar Wilde - Richard Ellmann
One of the many biographies of The Doors [I will endeavour to recall         the particular volume]
The New English Hymnal - various
Tintin [all of] - Hergé
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis - Wendy Cope
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto - David Shields
The Collected Stories of... - Lydia Davis

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Notes / Self-imposed Rules:

1) No particular order of importance.
2) Links are to editions read, where possible.
3) One book per author.
4) -ish. Book stipulated is either first read or first enjoyed.

Books I've actually finished lately: 48

Mercifully witty.

Books I've actually finished lately: 46

(Editor's note: Also, I have just named my first dog 'Maus', on account of how he looks exactly like the one on the left.)