One Hundred Years of Solitude | 
Have you come across the #TED-Ed videos that look at books and literature? These are great!!! I just found them a week or so ago through YouTube related-videos suggestions. I don‘t know how many there, but there seems to be A LOT! Here‘s the link for this OYoS video: https://youtu.be/B2zhLYz4pYo
pickOne of the best novels of all time. For Spanish speaking folks, this is one of our most beloved works of literature, taught in schools around the world. A towering achievement in magical realism, the story of generations of the Buendía family and the founding of their town Macondo, is both tragic and beautiful. I cannot state it loudly enough, this is a masterwork.
pickIt gets clearer and clearer each time I read it.
pickSurely my favourite book. In my back pack whilst travelling for a year around the world. I read it three times. Beautiful descriptions, characters and stories. This book has it all
I'm struggling to read this book. It's for book club, plus it's such a well-regarded book, otherwise I would not hesitate to bail. I'm only on p.37 and feel like nothing about it is compelling me to continue. Can anyone who has read it convince me that it's worth sticking with?
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.” -Cartagena, Colombia
My “I don‘t know what I want to read” stack featuring kindle.
Any favorites here?
Waiting to get my hair cut with one of the books I‘m currently reading. Time to cross this classic off my list. 📚😀
Next up for audiobook listen!
Netflix is adapting Rebecca by Daphne De Maurier and One Hundred Years of Solitude! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
If I had to choose one book as my all time favorite, it would be this one. It tells the story of one hundred years in the life of a fictional Colombian village and one of the village‘s founding families. I have this novel in English and in the original Spanish. It‘s one of those books that you read slowly, lingering over every page, because you don‘t want the story to end. You can easily spend an entire day lost in this novel.
bailedI was listening to this and could not make myself finish. Im not sure if its the multiple characters with same name, the incest or what but i absolutely hate it.
Book 5 of 14 for #bookfitnesschallenger2 @wanderinglynn #fitwizards @Clwojick @Lova @Peddler410 @Mynameisacolour @RainyDayReading @thereadingunicorn @jen_the_scribe
Task 7 for #readharderchallenge an #ownvoices book set in mexico or central america
#68 of my year. I have been wanting to read this for a very long time and I can‘t put it off any longer. Looking forward to unlocking all of the hidden mysteries of this book.
More book mail 🥰 definitely going to have to start looking into taller bookshelves from IKEA so I can fit waaaay more books hehehe definitely looking forward to reading these hopefully this year.
Honestly, going into this book I thought it was about a guy who lived completely alone for one-hundred years. Not sure how I thought that was plausible or going to be a good book. I thought it was going to be this guy talking to him self and I‘d get the backstory of why he was alone with no other humans or animals. Then I started the book it‘s nothing like that. There‘s lots of characters and talking. It was quite a shock! Also, it‘s good so far!
More like one hundred years of reading! Not to mention 100 Arcadios and Aurelianos 😜😜
pickThis is a great book to pick up right after you have already finished it because you will find so much you did not know was there.
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
#CurrentlyReading this masterpiece for the third time.
#OnceIsNotEnough #LatinAmericanLiterature #Gabo #Espanol #Español #Spanish #MagicalRealism #audiobooks
1. Virgo (Sept. 7th)
2. Finally unpacking all of my books. They've been stored for the past 3 years while we worked on remodeling, but now they have been freed. 😍
3. See tagged book. I tried a few different times and just couldn't make myself stick with it.
4. Working and reading. My usual plans. 💚
5. #Friyayintro 💞 @howjessreads
1. It‘s not for everyone, but it‘s like no other. Looking forward to seeing how they bring it to life!
2. Yup—just how my mama trained me.
3. 47 degrees F and SUPER windy
4. French fries dunked in a chocolate Frostie
5. 👊🏻🤓👋🏻
#friyayintro @howjessreads
“[Colonel Aureliano Buendía's] orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
#QuotsyMar19 | 19: #Solitude
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so-soI've had this on my to read for a very long time. I've always heard wonderfult things, so I was excited for it. However now that I'm done with it, I feel very meh about it. I think that it is a beautiful way to tell a story about time and how it is reflected within the family, the same cyclical story of one family trapped in itself. However the repetition of the names grated me. Read it if you have a burning need.
Netflix to produce! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/07/netflix-to-adapt-one-hundred-years...
pickThis is one of the most memorable books I've ever read due to the exotic setting and fantastical events described. It's also a great commentary on the human condition and how time erases memory. It can be a bit difficult to keep track of who's related to who, but in my edition at least, there was a family tree.
pickLove his writing style. The complex relationships, the bits of fantastical story telling woven in.
so-so#2019Book8
The writing in this was good, but some parts were hard to follow since almost all of the male characters have the same two names. I'm also not a fan of books where everyone wants to sleep with their relatives all the time. The best parts of this book were the sections that focused on the town where these characters lived, rather than the characters themselves.
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me, and I walk alone
#boulevardeofbrokendreams #musicalnewyear @Cinfhen @vivastory
pickAll my scratch offs done! I‘ve read 37 of the 100; I‘ve got some reading to do!
“...because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
I would certainly feel #onmyown #musicalnewyear #catchup because a favorite song....
pickThis is one of those books I like to revisit. I have read it 3 times. Next time I think I‘d like to read it in Spanish. Classic novel.
Marquez's epic, multi-generational saga of the Buendia family encompasses the entire history of Colombia told in the style of magical realism. As riveting as it is confusing.
pickYou get immersed in his world
#Adventrecommends Day 13
This is a love it or hate it book, but I‘ve read it more than once and I love it!
#AdventRecommends Day 8
Okay, so we have people growing aquatic plants from their teeth, lady who eats dirt, dude who makes gold fishes, fire ants, floating girl, and all sorts of other bizarre shenanigans. All of this happens over multiple generations in a family where everyone shares the same two names. By the time the seventh Aureliano turned up I had to draw a diagram. At the end of it all, I had a huge grin on my face and was nearly mad.
#WinterWonderland #BirdofParadise the first books that come to miind are Marquez ... lots of exotic, colourful, birds, people & situations ... magical 💫
pickVery good book! The family tree at the books beginning is a very handy and needed reference tool for the read.
pickI was so intimidated by this book, but the audio was amazing!!
pickEin überraschendes Buch voller merkenswerter Redewendungen. Eine Geschichte die wert ist erzählt zu werden.
Mein Leseplatz auf Mutterkur in Norderney.
Männer erklären nicht, Männer nehmen hin. Hätte das Buch eine Frau geschrieben erführe man mehr über die Hintergründe. Oder verstehe ich nicht zwischen diesen Zeilen zu lesen?
Das Buch entdeckte ich Regal des Leseraumes auf meiner Kur. Da mir ein Bekannter dringend empfohlen hat es zu lesen, freue ich mich sehr über diese Entdeckung.
pickI‘ve already reviewed this one, but I got this copy recently and it‘s too pretty not to show it off. It‘s a 50th anniversary thing, so it‘s lavishly illustrated and a family tree and everything. I really had to buy it.
