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re-reading 'Windjammer' by Shaw Desmond (haven't read it in quite awhile so it was due for a re-read)
Patrick Murtha said:I recently finished Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Currently I'm re-reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is greatly entertaining. I have also started Henry James's The Europeans. A big project I just began is reading the complete Canterbury Tales in Middle English (Penguin edition). I had forgotten how funny Chaucer is! I haven't tackled The Canterbury Tales since college, and I am delighted to discover that my Middle English is still in good shape.
Since I only arrived in Korea to teach ESL a couple of months ago, I have not had a chance to ship my personal library (or my complete wardrobe) from the States yet, but I will be doing that soon. I have a number of other books in varying states of completion, including plenty of non-fiction, and the classic Chinese novel The Story of the Stone. I'm nearing the end of the first of five volumes, again in the Penguin edition.
I'm reading Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels and stories in publication order; I finished Some Buried Caesar not long ago. In the excellent Hard Case Crime paperback series, I read Donald Westlake's Memory mostly on the plane to Korea, and was blown away by it.