but not nearly as exciting as deciding to spend the rest of your life with someone named Jeremy Javers (Ahhhhhhhh!).
No, just kidding. No regrets at all.
I FINALLY finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The guy is a Nobel Prize winner and the writing is beautiful ... but it's not exactly a page turner. I read a few pages before bed almost every night and it took about four months for me to finish it. I had to read a couple page turners and listen to some audiobook mysteries to keep me going for the duration of Hundred Years. It is a marvelous story and a great study in magical realism, where the most absurd and phantasmagorical happenings are told with such a natural tone of voice. It is really interesting how he mixes reality and unreality in a way where you aren't really sure what really happened. Eventually you don't care anymore. I kind of reminded me of Toni Morrison novels. It also really reminded me of Latin American and South American stories and myths from my cultural anthropology studies. Marquez grew up in Colombia and spent a lot of time living in Mexico so it makes sense that he would be exposed to those hybrized indigenous-Spanish stories. I wonder if Marquez knows Shakira.
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First of all, congrats on your engagement!! How exciting!
But 100 years of solitude... One of my all time favorite books. Love in the time of cholera isn't as good but is an easier read. You don't need a 5 generation family tree to get through it. I also suggest Isabel Allende. She is wonderful, feminine, and she embraces the latin spirituality like Marquez. Aaaah... Books!!
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