Before going to bed (really!)...

the Birmingham Bookshelf so far:

- Manfred Eggert: Prähistorische Archäologie
- Pierre Bourdieu: Die feinen Unterschiede
- Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
- Langenscheidts Grundwortschatz Französisch
- Langenscheidts Grundwortschatz Spanisch
- Bordwell/Thompson: Film Art

- Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas (newly bought and read here)
- Michail Bulgakow: Der Meister und Margarita (old, read here)
- Stephen R. Donaldson: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever (birthday present, read here)
- Neil Gaiman: American Gods (birthday present, read here)
- Iain Sinclair: London Orbital (newly bought, unread)
- Zadie Smith: White Teeth (birthday present, reading at the moment)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion (because I want to reread it)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (because I can't be without it)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Le Seigneur des Anneaux: La Communauté de l'Anneau (because I want to improve my French)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: El Senor de los Anillos: La Comunidad del Anillo (because I want to improve my Spanish)
- Gene Wolfe: Shadow and Claw (The Book of the New Sun 1&2)
- Gene Wolfe: Sword and Citadel (The Book of the New Sun 3&4) (both newly bought, and so far unread)

Strange interconnections: the last book I read was American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. In the afterword, he claims to have taken the 'best sentence in the epilogue' from Gene Wolfe, by whom I am about to read a book. Also, before I bought London Orbital by Iain Sinclair, virtually the first thing I read when I opened the book randomly, was a reference to Neil Gaiman. So, Sinclair reads Gaiman, and Gaiman reads Wolfe.

Oh, and since I've started making lists: here's the music I brought:
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mining
R.E.M.: Automatic for the People
Red House Painters: Ocean Beach
Tindersticks: Can Our Love...
Suede: A New Morning
Placebo: Without You I'm Nothing
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Radiohead: Kid A
Radiohead: Hail to the Thief
Erdmöbel: Erste Worte nach Bad mit Delfinen
Björk: Vespertine
P.J. Harvey: To Bring You My Love
Beth Orton: Central Reservation
Natalie Merchant: Motherland
Suzanne Vega: Nine Objects of Desire
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls
Leslie Fish: Folk Songs for Solar Sailors
Blind Guardian: Nightfall in Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings Soundtrack 1 & 2
Etoiles Celtique
Nicholas Lens: Flamma Flamma