false 2731216 8470176811 9788470176814 1 1 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731216.Cien_anos_de_soledad 13450 Gabriel García Márquez 172056 13720 The twins, Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo die. The novel is getting to the final stretch. As always, great read. 0 2009-06-20T14:24:38-07:00 913186 286 2009-06-20T14:24:38-07:00 And it rained for 4 years, 11 months, and two days. And all shortly after the banana workers' massacre, which is forgotten except by a few. 0 2009-06-20T13:02:43-07:00 912940 256 2009-06-20T13:02:43-07:00 Amaranta dies; she had met the angel of death beforehand. Meme falls in love with Mauricio Babilonia, but her mom has him killed. 0 2009-06-20T11:46:40-07:00 912674 236 2009-06-20T11:46:40-07:00 The eating contest between Aureliano Segundo and Camila Sagastume, aka the female "Elephant" (La Elefanta). And other things happen. 0 2009-06-20T10:42:01-07:00 912446 217 2009-06-20T10:42:01-07:00 A simple lesson: the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits, which is why those things are so hard to find. 0 2009-06-20T09:23:26-07:00 912171 201 2009-06-20T09:23:26-07:00 Remedios, the beautiful, ascends into heaven, and the 14 Aurelianos, sons of the Colonel, are killed. Well, except for the oldest. 0 2009-06-20T09:06:17-07:00 912121 199 2009-06-20T09:06:17-07:00 Just when you thought Col. Buendia would die from the gunshot, he survives because his physician tricked him with the iodine mark. 0 2009-06-12T07:55:33-07:00 877647 152 2009-06-12T07:55:33-07:00 0 2009-06-07T08:16:38-07:00 854596 144 2009-06-07T08:16:38-07:00 Col. Aureliano loses the civil war. In fact, he led 32 armed uprisings, and lost all of them. And things go on in Macondo. 0 2009-06-01T18:41:08-07:00 831557 108 2009-06-01T18:41:08-07:00 Jose Arcadio has to dress up and go ask for the hand of Remedios on behalf of his son. BTW, Jose does not get along with Remedios's dad. 0 2009-05-29T06:20:55-07:00 817168 62 2009-05-29T06:20:55-07:00 Rebeca's arrival, and the insomnia plague hits Macondo. Oh, and Melquiades returns, back from being among the dead. He is quite the gypsy. 0 2009-05-26T06:48:44-07:00 803342 48 2009-05-26T06:48:44-07:00 The Indians arrive fleeing an insomnia plague, oh, and the arrival of little Rebecca, who no one is sure the rhyme or reason. 0 2009-04-10T15:44:16-07:00 615352 38 2009-04-10T15:44:16-07:00 That was funny. Ursula leaves her husband, and then returns, after finding the route out of Macondo by accident, the one he could not find. 0 2009-04-06T06:32:29-07:00 595591 36 2009-04-06T06:32:29-07:00 0 2009-04-05T18:14:58-07:00 594086 32 2009-04-05T18:14:58-07:00 Started rereading it last night. It was time to go back to Macondo for me. Melquiades the gypsy is such a cool character. 0 2009-04-03T07:57:33-07:00 585136 16 2009-04-03T07:57:33-07:00 5 0 false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 02 15:54:17 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 21 15:43:55 -0700 2009
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I read it again, finishing it on June 20, 2009. This time I did some update notes in GR as I went along. That ending still moves me no matter how many times I read it. ]]>