FINALLY finished my first last Dickens,
American Notes. I was hugely amused by his insistence in the preface that "It has not a grain of any political ingredient in its whole composition". In modern English usage, his book had several truckloads of political grain in it.
Now back to my 2 non-English books for the
StoryGraph Multilingual Dreams challenge, and just starting Arkady Martine's
A Desolation Called Peace, the followup to
A Memory Called Empire. I loved the first one, and the opening pages of this one have been promisingly appealing.