Blending the everyday and the miraculous, the historical and fabulous, psychological realism and surreal flights of fancy, One Hundred Years of Solitude has influenced nearly every important novelist around the world.
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Blending the everyday and the miraculous, the historical and fabulous, psychological realism and surreal flights of fancy, One Hundred Years of Solitude has influenced nearly every important novelist around the world.
Book that #BeginsWith #One Day 15: Photos are taken from our 2014 Gabriel Garcia Marquez tribute post when he passed away. More quotes can be found here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7Ei
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I've often felt the title of the novel would be the conditions under which I would be able to finish this book! Magical realism just does not do this for me, and this novel in particular!
so-soThis book is impressive, but certainly not for everyone. OYOS tells a fictional history of the Buendia family and the mythical town of Macondo, reading almost like a biblical parable. The reader is called to consider the cyclical nature of time and the inevitability of death, but with this message comes repetition and wordy paragraphs. If you‘re patient, there‘s a lot to digest from this story. If not, this might not be the book for you.
pickThe story follows the Buendia family over 100 hundred years in a town of Macondo which they have built. It describes the different members of the family through multiple generations and the repeated history of the characters. The stories are also full of magical realism.
I found the book a bit harder to get through due to the very similar names of the characters and the monotonic voice throughout. But I did enjoy it and may need to re-read it!
…the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.
Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.
Choosing to listen to the Audio book instead of reading might not have been the best idea. Why does everyone have the same name😂 other than not knowing exactl who is who this book is very different from what I expected but still quite enjoyable ☺️
Recommended by my Spanish teacher; reading in English version first. So far, I‘m enjoying it.
pickMy favorite book for grown-ups; it‘s creative, political, just the right amount of weird, and is pretty much the poster child for the magical realism genre.
pickFollows the tale of a family who set up town in Macondo.
Another classic down, many more to go. I enjoyed the book, the thing about listening to all the classics is that at times, it‘s hard to determine where one begins and the other ends.
His only happy moments, since that remote afternoon when his father had taken him to see ice, had taken place in his silver workshop where he passed the time putting little gold fishes together. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dungheap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.
#SpringSentiments Day 5 @Eggs
This book has been recommended to me several times over the years, and I've attempted reading it, but never finished it. #Exasperation is all I feel for this book and its characters.
Maybe one day I'll try again.
Have had this on my shelf for ages - finally getting into it
pickWonderfull book! One of the best I've ever read. I cannot find my words to describe this book. It was like reading all the history of the whole world in one book. War, love, family, blessings and curses. It was like speaking with my great-great grandma.
Some #litsymail from the last few days! Thanks for the birthday cards, @BookNAround and @BookwormAHN ! And thanks again for the vegan cookies, @Eyelit - they‘re not pictured here, but they‘ve been enjoyed since they arrived last week! 🍪
@CBee - thanks again for giving away the books and sending me this one! I‘ll try not to let it linger on #MtTBR for too long!
Christmas purchases still trickling in. And this just became the most beautiful book on my shelf! 😍😍
My first book of 2021...All time favourite...Re-reading it for the 3rd time....
Today‘s finished soup: “One Hundred Beers of Solitude Red Lentil & Rice Soup” is bright & sunny & delicious. My friends at @BookClubCookbook sent me a couple of their Book Blends as a thank you for taking part in their #BlendsBash2020 & I *had* to start cooking with them so I added this “Hoppy Citrus Sucker Punch” tagged blend to my lentil soup. It‘s a bunch of citrus peels & powders blended with honey, pepper, basil & cascade hops.😋Recipe link⬇️
🎄Cold night, waiting on dinner, feet up, hot tea, my small Obama collection in reach and reading☺️
“One hundred years of Solitude.”
pickJust finished this on audio.. and wow. This is a wild story about 100 years of the Buendia family, tied to the small town of Macondo. There is passion, humor, sadness, madness, incest, the same handful of names used over and over, and everything that lead to the literary phrase “magical realism”. Genius. #rorygilmorereadinglist #bbrc #yeahbaby #translatedwork #bookspinbingo #wintergames2020 #teamreadnosedreindeer 16pts
1. Lancaster PA
2. 100 Years of Solitude
3. Haven‘t really found one to this point
4. Toss up between Casablanca and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Six Feet Under
6. David Bowie
7. Light to medium green
8. Fiction in general if I had to choose but I need variety!!!
9. A county human services agency
10. Sea monkeys (due to lease constrictions)
#meetthelittens
pickEs una historia increíble, un poco fuerte a veces pero es típico del autor abordar esos temas, sin duda es una lectura muy entretenida siempre y cuando estés preparado para temas crudos y sin tabúes, si tienes tiempo devorarás la historia y el final es épico aunque lleno de sorpresas. Un clásico que deberías leer al menos una vez en tu vida.
pickGabriel's magnum opus is unputdownable. The inevitable ending and the larger than life characters stay etched in your memory. Every page propels you to think about life above and beyond of what is told and taught.
so-soReading this book is a lot like listening to a drunk person tell you a story when you‘re five pints deep yourself. It‘s sprawling and tangential, and you can be sure they‘re taking a bit of creative license, but you can still follow what they‘re saying and you‘re curious enough not to excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and never return. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-gabriel-garci...
so-soReading this book is a lot like listening to a drunk person tell you a story when you‘re five pints deep yourself. It‘s sprawling and tangential, and you can be sure they‘re taking a bit of creative license, but you can still follow what they‘re saying and you‘re curious enough not to excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and never return. Full review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-gabriel-garci...
pickGabriel is a master of invoking such rich imagery in his book that left me feeling wiser and more literate. This tale that follows a family throughout a century left me with an impactful lesson: “memories are a lie, being nostalgic robs you from the joy of today.” I almost got lost in the names and was taken aback by the incest but somehow it all just fell into context. Netflix is brave for attempting to bring this masterpiece to picture.
bailedI‘ve read and heard raving review of this book, currently listening but am so close to abandoning..anyone read this? Thoughts?
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.“
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 113 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram
#BeautifulWords Day 22: When Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away, I did a tribute to his works at GatheringBooks, mentioning that before we had a #Dalliance with children‘s literature, we first fell in love with his words. See my post here, along with our favourite quotes from his novels: https://wp.me/pDlzr-7Ei
I found this terrific thing today! One of my top favorite writers! The Harry Ransom Center at UT in Austin prepared and exhibition on Gabriel García Márquez right before everything went into lockdown. The exhibition is now mainly online plus access to the digital archives with manuscripts, photos, scrapbooks, letters, etc. Digging into this is going to be fun!
https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/2020/gabriel-garcia-marquez/
pickI enjoyed rereading this for a book group. The first time I read it was 14 years ago, and I had forgotten all these crazy characters in the eccentric fictional town of Macondo. Úrsula is probably my favorite.
#ThankfulThursday @Cosmos_Moon Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView
1. Top of list are Ireland, Canada (BC and Quebec), Scotland, New Zealand, Greece (and probably more I can‘t think of!) ... right now we re trying to decide whether to change our planned November trip to The Big Island, Hawaii. 🤷🏼♀️
2. Meditation
3. Who‘s game? @kspenmoll @Eggs @BarbaraBB @Bibliogeekery @LiteraryinLititz
Hello fellow book lovers. I found out about Litsy a couple of days ago and I am trying to figure it out. I just finished One hundred years of Solitude and thoroughly enjoyed it. This was my first exposure to Marquez‘s work and it took a while to get acclimatised to his writing style but ultimately it makes for a very satisfying read.
#7days7books Day 4
Presenting books that changed me or left a deep impression on me.
#7days7books. Seven books that left a deep impression and changed me. Day Five. #7books7days. (Not my photo)
