Lilac @sunbeam@www.librepunk.club

in january i've started white teeth by zadie smith and the writing is fantastic but i'm definitely not going to finish it for a bit

i did also read twelfth night by shakespeare in january but that was for a class so i'm not Really counting it. but i do want to read more shakespeare on my own soon

in february or otherwise future i would also like to read

• notes of a crocodile by qiu maojin
• frankenstein by mary shelley
• swing time by zadie smith

sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami:

i am going to preface this with i have No clue what the Fuck this book means so this also deserves a reread soon

i don't feel like it explored the age gap between sumire and miu the way i Expected considering how emphasized it felt in the first part but maybe i just haven't analyzed well enough for that yet

no rating this needs a lot more thought and anywhere from one to several million rereads before a proper opinion is formed

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin:

so this follows a pair of game developers as they come together and make video games over the course of their lives

i really loved how throughout the whole thing their relationship and each character's emotions are kinda shown through the lens of the games they make or they play

this definitely did a great job of showing the intricacies and intimacy and idiosyncrasies of their relationship

also it presents itself in a way that felt clear and meaningful even without analyzing, but without sacrificing anything from the analysis

that being said i don't think i've really absorbed or understood all of it yet so i will be going back for another reread eventually. 4/5

i'm gonna talk about the books i've read this month bc yeah

dracula by bram stoker:

i started reading this bc i never finished dracula daily bc i didn't like not being able to read in bursts but i needed to talk to my friend about it

this felt very quintessential and i appreciate how it kinda helped me look at like vampires as a cultural/literary symbol more and their origin

maybe i just struggled to find it but i don't feel like this had a lot of literary underlying meaning, i felt like it was more of a story to follow than anything else. that being said i don't think that makes it worse i think that just means its for a different situation or vibe

resoundingly fun and not nearly as difficult to read as i expected for a classic, 3.5/5

i'm only in act 3 so far but i feel like twelfth night is about compulsory heterosexuality

viola has a Secret Identity that she can't reveal and it's part of why she loves the person she does, but instead she is forced to pursue olivia in orsino's stead

i think orsino and olivia both not taking no for an answer represent how queer people (viola) can feel forced into compulsory heterosexuality

i feel like this is a very allegorical interpretation but also like i think that's kinda what all the gender fuckery is supposed to mean

i might also just be off my rocker literary analysis isnt normally my thing

all of my shakespeare interpretations got so much better once i realized i can just interpret everything thru the lens of it being super gay

quiz

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i just learned abt willans formula this is so cool