Read all the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I went on holiday. Gabito books formed my sole link with the intellectual world in Fakiraki, surrounded as I was by pasty English people with startling regional accents and a certain aptitude for drinking tequila. I make no apology for admitting that this isn’t a desirable attribute in, well, anybody. Call me a snob, but at least I’m honest.

I began with The General In His Labyrinth. My opinion of this is, well, apathetic. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it.

Strange Pilgrims was my second challenge of the week. I adored this collection of short stories, just because it tickled each and every creative bone in my being. Hurrah.

I’ve been completely rubbish at this one.

I have, however, read Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In two languages, no less. Damn you, A Level Spanish, I have entirely forgotten you.

I should go to the library on a Gabito hunt.

Read:
100 Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories

Next up:
Chronicle of a Death Fortold
In Evil Hour

Already read “Hundred years of solitude”, tonight will start “Love in the time of cholera”.

You have to start somewhere!