What are you currently reading?

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JBS

For reference, the covers of the English language editions
Hardback:

Paperback:

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

Florestan



Guy de Maupassant - Mon oncle Sosthène

To tell in five pages what others need a whole volume to tell, that's genius --- which Maupassant shares with Chekhov.
"Ja, sehr komisch, hahaha,
ist die Sache, hahaha,
drum verzeihn Sie, hahaha,
wenn ich lache, hahaha! "

owlice

I've just started "The Island Of Sea Women" by Lisa See. About 25% into it, and finding it very good.

I recently reread "Yellowface" by R. F. Kuang, and before that, read "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.