I'm excited about my new purchases from last night. Eslite bookstore is having a sale on their foreign books, so I picked up Chinese Characters, Reading and Writing Chinese, and The Peguin History of Economics. The first two books should help me in my current efforts to learn how to type Chinese characters (using zhuyin, also known as BoPoMoFo). Hopefully, all of these books while make me appear more erudite in both English and Chinese.