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Just finished Iphigenia, & I'm a tiny bit upset, due to spoilery reasons 😂 All I can say is my inner romantic is unhappy, but the ending makes sense & I would have rolled my eyes had it been any different.
There is a definite 1920s/30s flavour to the novel (think Mitford, Cold Comfort Farm, etc.)

Warning for offhand racist, classist, colorist and antisemitic remarks, mainly from the mouths of foolish characters

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Happy #WorldBookDay (or 1 of them) / #SantJordi / #DayofBooksandRoses / #SaintGeorgesDay everyone! It is celebrated on this day because it is the anniversary of the death of Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, but as it happens, the author I am reading right now - Teresa de la Parra - also died on April, 23rd.

I find Maria Eugenia (the Iphigenia of the title) deeply irritating but also lovable. I can't think of many early 20th-c. novels that show the mind of a teenage girl in such detail. She is bright but naive, superficial but thoughtful, bold but shy. And v. volatile. It's clear she is/will be used as a pawn by her family, at the v. least to maintain their status, but v. probably for money too. Impending doom 😬

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My plan for the weekend: make arepas. Unexpectedly, I found the proper flour for them locally 😁Wish me luck for my 1st attempt...
Possibly also start on the tagged novel (a Venezuelan classic), if the book I ordered at the library doesn't turn up.

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