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I forgot to mention some other recent reads. Two of them are by Charles Dickens: Bleak House, easily one of the best novels I've read this year, and Little Dorrit, which came as a disappointment. I started reading Little Dorrit just after finishing Bleak House. I gave it a chance but even after reading half the book, I didn't care for almost any of the characters.
I also read The Impossible State by Victor Cha. It's part history, part political analysis of North Korea. An informative but at times repetitive book.
I am now devoting most of my time reading War and Peace in the Maude translation but in the Oxford World's Classics edition. This edition differs from many Maude reissues in that it leaves the French language passages untranslated, with translations available in footnotes. Moreover, character names are left un-Anglicized: Andrei, not Andrew, Marya, not Mary. Both of these are very welcome differences
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