Finished: The Tempest (Shakespeare). Ahh, Shakespeare. :-) It's always nice to get back to a little Shakespeare. Though, I can't say The Tempest was my favorite, I love Shakespeare, and I'm glad to have finally read it! I've heard references to Prospero before, and Miranda...so now I've read their story! I was inspired to read it by Kenneth Branagh quoting the play during last night's Olympics Opening Ceremony. The quote he used was actually spoken by one of the less likable characters in the play, Caliban, when he was plotting with two other miscreants to kill Prospero and take over the island. He was convincing his new "friends" not to be afraid of the island's mysterious voices and noises:

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

I think the most famous quote I recognized from The Tempest was "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

I'm torn about whether I want to continue with Shakespeare and read Othello, or read a different book. Hmm....