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Cake day: July 25th, 2020

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  • Recently I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Tipping the Velvet, both great books. The former about one of literature’s great Evil Twinks, the latter about lesbians in victorian england with themes of class conflict relevant to its setting.

    I’ve also been reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and I might be stupid or something because I’m like 1/3 through it and tbh I still don’t really know what it’s supposed to be about. There are too many characters and the narrator keeps rapidly switching focus among them. Some of them die uneventfully, and for others there’s a big emotional buildup to it, which I feel like is supposed to mean something, but I just don’t get it. Also there’s a civil war that I feel like is intended to be an allusion to something IRL, but I don’t know enough about latam history to know what that could be. idk, maybe I’m overthinking it just because it’s one of those books with a big reputation 🤷‍♀️.

    Today I started Grapes of Wrath, and I’m already hooked! Though I will say, some of the things the white sharecroppers say about indians makes me think of Settlers lol.