Hi everyone! I hope everyone is having a good start to their week. The end of this novel felt like quite a different adventure than the first section did. For starters I was starting to really understand the grasp of the expansion of Macondo, it …
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Hi everyone! Wow, two weeks have flown by! I can’t believe we are already on our way to wrapping up with this book. I won’t lie, although I enjoyed this book, I have been DYING to get to Rigoberta Menchu’s book as I have always wanted to delve into that. But, for now! Let’s continue […]
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Since I already addressed the whole book in my first blog post instead of splitting it up into two halves, I’m going to take a different approach this week: comparing Márquez’s style and themes against Borges’s. Whether it’s justified or not, the two often get paired together as the two great authors of Latin America […]
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The last 200 pages of Garcia Marquez’s book took readers on another bumpy but thrilling journey. Some themes from this last half I want to discuss in my blog today are decline, fate, horror, open vs. closed and multitudes. Macondo is in a state of…
Hello everyone! If im being honest, Im not sure if I was a huge fan of the second half in comparison to the first. My first mistake was avoiding the advice to read in larger sections, but at the same time, it was a long book and that…
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The last 200 pages of Garcia Marquez’s book took readers on another bumpy but thrilling journey. Some themes from this last half I want to discuss in my blog today are decline, fate, horror, open vs. closed and multitudes. Macondo is in a state of…
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Hello everyone! If im being honest, Im not sure if I was a huge fan of the second half in comparison to the first. My first mistake was avoiding the advice to read in larger sections, but at the same time, it was a long book and that…
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First off, One Hundred Years of Solitude was my most prolonged English reading ever, and I am proud of myself for completing the book! Furthermore, the genres fantasy and magical realism are quite similar to each other; however, novels like Harry Potte…
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First off, One Hundred Years of Solitude was my most prolonged English reading ever, and I am proud of myself for completing the book! Furthermore, the genres fantasy and magical realism are quite similar to each other; however, novels like Harry Potte…
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This week’s reading of One Hundred Years of Solitude was harder to get through than the first half. Although I still appreciate the novel as meaningful and enjoyed the plot it is written so densely that about half way through it becomes rather exhausting to keep up and I became slightly numb to the climaxes and moments …
