Started rereading The Red Pavilion. Judge Dee and his assistant Ma Joong are spending the night in the Red Pavilion on Paradise Island after a long day of travel. It is the Festival of Hungry Ghosts, all of the hostels are booked, and there is much carousing. Stopped reading after the exquisite check-in scene in which the pavilion and its rooms are described in detail by lamplight and candlelight and Judge Dee is about to be served his tea on the veranda.

Feeling like traveling myself with an apprentice to such a thrilling, mysterious place!