Finished "Middlemarch". Definite recommendation. I will need to read it again at some point in my life. <3 <3 <3 Mary Garth, I wish she was a less minor character. Also saw in the library a book called " After Man " by Dougal Dixon. It's a bit of speculative zoology; he describes (and others illustrate) what he reckons animals might evolve into 50 million years hence. I think I would have loved it when I was like ten years old. However, now the Pixies' "Gigantic" is stuck in my head with "Gigantic" replaced in the lyrics with "Gigantelope".