My magical realist experience reading a classic of magical realism--documented with photos

On Goodreads, it says I started reading Love in the Time of Cholera on June 5--which is when I committed to reading it (it's my book group's next book)--but in fact I didn't start it until this past Monday, the 9th. As it happens, I started reading it in a church chapel, the day after Pentecost. As it happens, the story opens on Pentecost--an interesting coincidence.

I was having a hard time getting into it--I read maybe fifteen pages that day.

Today I sat down to read a little more.

I sat down...