“One Hundred Years Of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is a difficult book for me to review. As so many of my favorites I’ve read it twice and still cannot say that I fully understand it. In 417 pages Garcia Marquez has presented one hundred years in the life of a prolific family living in a mythical town. His fiction is beautifully written and mixed with supernatural events and magical happenings that catch one off guard. The characters are on the other hand, all too real.
Garcia Marquez is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Columbia and spent most of his life in Mexico. His writing beautifully portrays life in the tropics. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has been called “The great novel of the Americas.”
Crooked Creek by Sue Mattingly 
This is a beautiful book. It probably shouldn’t be analyzed too much, just enjoyed for the fascinating characters and intriguing language. I remember the first line of the book because it was so incredible. ”Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice…” I read that sentence and I was hooked.
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Thank you for introducing me to this author!
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