I got behind on these – especially considering I read this book in July.
Columbia: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Thoughts: I like Gabriel García Márquez and in some ways I liked this book better than One Hundred Years of Solitude – it definitely was more, the word I am stuck on is precise although I cannot exactly figure out how I mean precise to apply. I miss these flowing, labyrinth tales that I am finding less and less in books written in English where I keep reading books based on stylistic techniques or tricky endings or the author proving cleverness over the reader. This is just a simple story of two people falling in love, which of course is not simple and careens off into a thousand different directions, and maybe there’s magical realism or maybe it’s just a story of what happens and that’s fine with me.
Rating: 4/5
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