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Fiction: I just finished reading Robert van Gulik's The Haunted Monastery, which is a murder mystery set in Tang Dynasty China. (It was one of a series of mysteries inspired by a mystery story written in Ming Dynasty China using a historical character, Judge Dee.) It was the first novel in quite awhile that I didn't give up on. Other recent novels I've tackled but abandoned include Rex Beach's The Spoilers and Harold Robbins's The Carpetbaggers. (Yes, my reading tastes are eclectic.) Last night I started Cash McCall, which is a 1955 novel set in the corporate world.

Non-fiction: I've been moving slowly through Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan, which is a history of the J. P. Morgan family of banking firms, and Casino, the Nicholas Pileggi book that was the source material for the Martin Scorsese movie. Hmm. Now that I notice it, books about corporations and businessmen and money seem to be in the ascendant on my reading list.

Movies (though that's not reading, but I put in the same "research" category for myself): I watch a lot of TCM. Last two movies were the 1969 The Green Slime, about monsters invading a space station, and 1973's Night Watch, about a woman who cracks up after she thinks she's seen a murder in the house next door.

I need to start keeping notes and outlines again on these things. I used to.