Back from a work trip to Singapore, a family visit in Hong Kong, and a three-week trip in Italy.
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Back from Hiatus
Posted on February 27, 2017 by Matthew
Current Reads
- Life after Life Jill McCorkle
- This Is Your Captain Speaking Jon Methven
- The Starboard Sea Amber Dermont
- Snark David Denby
- Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Moleskine’s All-Time Favorites
- 1. Shadow without a Name, Ignacio Padilla
- 2. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
- 3. A Separate Peace, John Knowles
- 4. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 5. Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
- 6. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- 7. Death with Interruptions, Jose Saramago
- 8. The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham
- 9. Maurice, E.M. Forster
- 10. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley
- 11. Beloved, Toni Morrison
- 12. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- 13. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
- 14. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
- 15. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
- 16. Stoner, John Williams
- 17. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner
- 18. The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell
- 19. Emily, Alone, Stewart O'Nan
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A Guy's Moleskine Notebook 
You’ve been all over. You are giving Anthony Bourdain a run for his money.
Haha! I felt invincible after dancing through different time zones and finding my way through the maze of Venetian waterways!
Welcome back!
Thanks! A lot of catching up as far as blog posts go. I didn’t stop reading while I was on the road.