Finally finished HG Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau". Very blah. The narrator was just too blase about everything. Also, I don't think he CHANGED in any way except to become more fearful throughout the story.
Also re-read the graphic novel version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Alan Moore et al. The second chapter is much bawdier than I remember.
Re-read Sergei Lukyanenko's "Night Watch" while on vacation. As good as ever, though the third story seems a little schizophrenic, like the author wanted to tell two separate stories -- Anton's story, and the story of Tiger Cub's dacha.
Now reading the second in that series, "Day Watch", by the same author. Because he's established the characters in other stories, the second one (the Rogoza story) has some odd-seeming interludes with Anton and the Night Watch, and the whole concept of Rogoza is poorly-conceived, but the first story, with Alisa, is worth it, and I seem to remember liking the third as well.