Just started reading 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Marquez, and man is it captivating.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

I recognize that this is magnificent writing, and the story itself is unique and intriguing. So I feel bad that I just can’t keep my focus on this one. I really want to enjoy this but I just can’t. His prose is so difficult to follow sometimes. The characters just blend together. It’s not an easy read for sure.

Finished: One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

Started: Atonement, by Ian McEwan

Finished Kindred by Octavia E Butler which is the best book I've read this year. Also finished The Invisible Library by Genieve Cogman which was a fun escapist romp and definitely what I needed after Kindred destroyed me.

Started 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Finished: One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst, and only then did she discover how much she missed the whiff of oregano on the porch and the smell of roses at dusk, and even the bestial nature of the parvenus. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, feel apart with waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

Wow. The storytelling was atypical, and I found it hard to keep all the characters apart, and the mix of supernatural mysticism with reality was interesting, but after a while I stopped concerning myself with which character was married to whom and which son/grandson/great granddaughter was whom... And just took in the prose carefully, admiring the beauty and the sadness of the words.

Started: The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford.

Reading:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Been on my to-read list for a while, looking forward to seeing what the fuss is about)

Klopp: Bring the Noise, by Raphael Honigstein (biography of Liverpool soccer manager Jurgen Klopp. Really well written, probably one of the better sporting biographies out there)

Finished:

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford (I've really found an interest in anthropology lately and would recommend this book to anyone with similar interests. If you enjoyed Sapiens you'll love this too)

I finished listening to the audiobook Why Not Me?, by Mindy Kaling and started One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.

I'm working on Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson and I'm reading The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien to my son.

I'm nearing the end of listening to the audiobook One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez and next will be Heart Berries, by Terese Marie Mailhot.

I'm working on Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson and I'm reading The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien to my son.

I finished World War Z, by Max Brooks

I started One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez and Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman.

Finished The Storm Before the Storm, by Mike Duncan and I really enjoyed it. Anyone that likes either the History of Rome or Revolutions should give it a read. He writes in a style very similar to his audio format and its really entertaining. Read through Double Wonderful, by John Swartzwelder and it was excellent. As Bizarre and funny as I wanted it to be. Moved onto One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez which has been sitting on my shelf for ages. Only about 20 pages in but I'm really liking the flow and style of writing.

Finished: One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

Gonna start The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

I'm currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My friend recently started doing the 100 day project where she paints one picture a day for the next 100 days. She's currently on day 75. This is what inspired me to see if I can do that with reading.

I'm not that much into reading books, but have decided to read at least one book a month from now on. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep doing this, but I hope to do it for as long as possible.

Starting One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez soon. Read a few pages from a sample and I already know I am going to greatly enjoy it. It arrives in the mail tomorrow.

I just started One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

I’ve heard a LOT of great things about it on this sub, so I have high expectations!

Finished 100 years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Enjoyed it, parts of it were really enchanting but I think they hype was a bit much.

Started Alif The Unseen, by G. Willow Wilson Enjoying it so far.

Starting The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson which sounds messed up and fun.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

Just started it last night so no opinion yet.

Today I'm beginning One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. I have always heard that it's one of the best books of all the time, so I'm really looking forward to reading it.

Finally finished up Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky, second book of his, I think if it wasn't for the interest in the topic I would have dropped it.

Taking my time with One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez and The Blue Hotel, by Stephen Crane

Got The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer for the holidays, so will be checking them out too

Started The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton

Also working my way through One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

I finished The Prince by Machiavelli and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez over the weekend. Both were great, but I have no idea how OHYS escaped me for so many years.

I'm currently reading Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky. Karamazov is (somehow) the first Russian book I've ever picked up, so I'm pretty excited for it! It's nice to finally be filling in some of these huge gaps in my classic literature library.

Finished: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Started: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Finished: One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I liked it but I don't think I found it as profound as a lot of people on this sub typically rate it. The writing was quite beautiful and poetic at times and that was great, but I think that lack of dialogue and maybe the magical realism created a bit of disconnect between the characters and me.

Started: The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien and I'm excited. Huge Tolkien fan and I'm pumped to revisit this one.

Finished:

The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov - I need time to think this one through, enjoyed it though.

Behold the man, by michael Moorcock - Psychology student gets really into Jungian archetypes but isn't taken seriously by academic friends, instead time travels and spoilers. This book predates the rise of Jordan Peterson, but it's basically about him?

Started reading:

Globalization and its discontents revisited: Anti-globalization in the era of Trump, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

One hundred years of solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

one hundred years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Is now one of my favorite books ever!

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez

Incredible book, the way the author creates layers of history and then is able to use that history in different ways for different effects is incredible.

I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez. It’s been haunting me.

I started For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway.

Finished Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke.

Started A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking.

Continuing to digest The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer and One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.

I just finished A House Without Windows, by Nadia Hashimi. It was a great read with a fast-paced and constantly evolving narrative. The story revolves around an Afghan woman who is accused of murdering her husband and sent to prison, as well as her lawyer who was brought up and educated in America after he fled Afghanistan as a refugee when he was a child. There's the consistent theme of gender (especially women's rights in Afghanistan and in Islam generally), a heavy critique of the notion of 'honour', and quite a lot of references to the American and Russian interventions in Afghanistan and how they affected the nation. I really loved the story and the author's use of random couplets throughout the book. I'm definitely going to read her previous stories.

I'm now going to start One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Feeling a bit apprehensive as lots of people say it's a fairly difficult read but also excited because it's many people's all time favourite. Let's see!

Finished

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which I enjoyed.

Started

2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke I've seen the movie, now to compare the book.

The Like Switch by Jack Schafer, Ph.D., with Marvin Karlins, Ph.D., which is about influence.

I finished The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas.

I read a lot about this book being leftist propaganda, one sided, etc., but I did not get that impression at all from reading it. It's a book about the police brutality issue from a young black woman who literally saw her friend get shot. So yeah, of course it's "biased" towards her perspective.

This is YA, but the author doesn't let this dumb down her description of the complexity of the issues at hand. I think everyone could gain something from reading this book.

Just started One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Started Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, by Dennis Overbye

and am still working on Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow

I’m finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

I bought Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Pinball, 1973 and Hear the Wind Sing both by Haruki Murakami

I think I’ll start with Lolita sometime this week.

Might be the most books I'm reading at once, but at least spread over a long period of time

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo with /r/AYearOfLesMiserables,

The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane with /r/thehemingwaylist

One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez with /r/bookclub

Also reading Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky this time, surprisingly enough, by myself. Nearing the end of it, thinking of continuing with Malazan when I'm done.

Finished

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.

I am still reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

Started

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

I just finished reading The Hittchiker's Guide to Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. I had a lot of fun and adventure while reading this book, but the ending was a bit disappointing. On the recommendation of my language professor I've started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquéz. This book is really awesome, I love the writing style used in the book, the vocabulary is really great.