by Gabriel García Márquez
Tasks for Pancha Ganapati: Post about your 5 favourite books this year and why you appreciated them so much. Tasks for Festivus: [...] --OR-- Perform the Airing of Grievances: name 5 books you’ve read this year that have disappointed you - tell us in tongue-lashing detail why and how they failed t...
Bingo No. 3: First column to the right. Bingo No. 4: Second row. The "bingo" squares and books read: Bingo No. 3: Bingo No. 4: ...
Challenge: Read a book a friend recommended This is my third García Marquez book and I still can get into his writing. In this particular book, there are no divisions other than the indentation of the paragraphs, which made me feel overwhelmed with the amount of information I was getting. Everyo...
This is the first work of Garcia Marquez that I've read, and I really enjoyed it. I had read an excerpt at my Spanish class, and I immediately knew I would like it. It's a mix of magical realism and a crime novel. It reads fast (I'm waiting for a weekend of bad weather to read it again!) and leaves ...
One of the most respected and celebrated novella of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It narrates the chronicle of Santiago Nasar and how his dead came to be in the full knowledge of the whole town who did nothing to stop him because his dead was so well known they all assumed he knew it too. Killed for a cri...
I read this novel when i was in high school and it was one of the first times i was given an interesting book. I love the narrative, and although the story itself is tragic the world and the descriptions are amazing. One of those books that once i started reading couldn't put down until it was done;...
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