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Current book(s) you're reading?

Finished all Cathy Glass and Lisa Stone audiobooks (both authors are the same person). Now I don't know what else to listen to. I love her writing style because although it's for adults it's still written quite simplistically, which makes it easy for people like me to follow and understand what's going on, rather than it being all metaphors and similes. Not that I'm literal-minded you understand, but I prefer stories to just get to the point, as I can focus better.
 
I just finished Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank.

Now I'm either beginning Mimesis by Auerbach, or European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Curtius.
 
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Stig of the Dump - Wikipedia
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I finished Daphnis & Chloe, by Longo. It's an okayish pastoral romance written around 2 A.D. It's been highly influential, apparently, as the genre of pastoral romance grew in popularity in later years. It-s something like an early version of Hermann and Dorothea (Goethe), of its less artistic but widely popular Paul & Virginie (some french dude).

Now I'm reading The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo. The author wrote this book about the last thoughts of a man condemned to death as a form of protest to death penalty.

AprilR said:
I finished The setting sun by Osamu Dazai.
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What did you think of it?
That one is great, I'll have to re-read it one of these days. Dazai was for a while my favorite authors, and I was completely obsessed with him when I read Schoolgirl, about a decade ago.
He can be very bleak while still being poetic. When japanese authors write depressive or bleak books, it seems to me that bleak reality is represented bluntly and characters simply swallow the whole thing as it is, without what seems a lot of philosophizing that I think is found in their western counterpart.
 
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