Viewed and Loved: Desmond Morris' The Human Sexes, an old (1997) TLC series of six shows from his book of the same title. If you haven't yet discovered the joys of Desmond Morris, you've a treat in store. Start with The Naked Ape, his celebrated 1967 look at the Human Animal (burned by many in protest of its content at the time), or read his biography, Animal Days, and go from there.

Latest Movies: Layer Cake, War of the Worlds, Cinderella Man, Howl's Moving Castle, Batman Begins.

Current Reading: Exodus from the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe; Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way, Bill Bryson; Resolution (book 3 of the Nulapeiron series), John Meaney.

Recently Read and Loved: Boudicca: 1- Dreaming the Eagle, 2- Dreaming the Bull, 3- Dreaming the Hound; Manda Scott; Made in America, Bill Bryson; Calde of the Long Sun, Gene Wolfe; Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson; In the Moon of Red Ponies, James Lee Burke; Tears of the Giraffe, Alexander McCall Smith, Animal Days, Desmond Morris; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon.

Next down on the reading stack: Morality for Beautiful Girls, Alexander McCall Smith; Star of the Sea, Joseph O'Connor.