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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Start date: May 1, 2019

Finish date: May 30, 2019

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Why we're reading this: May is Ageism. Our book is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
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Feb 10, 2019 Jess Penhallow rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: library-book, 1930s, 1920s, 19th-century, 1910s, colombia, south-america

My first 5 star book of the year. Everything about this was just beautiful.

Going in I knew very little about this story other than its status as a modern classic. The title and cover led me to believe that it would be a weep-fest but what I got was something completely different. There was so much humour and joy in the mundane details of everyday life and love. When an author can make a married couple's argument about soap into something wonderful you know that they are special.

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Mar 01, 2025 Diana Long rated it liked it

This was an odd love story. I don't really enjoy this sort of back and forth in time and all the added people who really don't add to the story. There were some interesting parts but I didn't think it was as nearly enjoyable as 100 Years of Solitude. Plenty of sex in this book if that's what the reader would enjoy reading about. ...more

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