What I'm reading right now is T.R. Ybarra's Young Man of Caracas--funny and urbane so far. The author is half-Bostonian and half-Venezuelan and all wit. Quotes will follow. (As they will from Can You Forgive Her?, which was good and ventured into darker territory than usual for Trollope, and even had a villain proper (Trollope's novels have deeply flawed but not really fully malign antagonists), and he had a scar.)