Memories of My Melancholy Whores – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories of my Melancholy Whores is an interesting narrative by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It still contained Marquez’s dry wit and humor. I liked the way the main character’s misery, loneliness  and agony was depicted: “…I’m ugly, shy, and anachronistic…” Marquez’s characters are very complex, and he has a way of of giving you more insight [...]

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The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41adOkkXUzL.jpg author: John Steinbeck Set during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migration, The Grapes of Wrath tells the journey of the Joad family’s migration from Oklahoma to California. I think that The Grapes of Wrath is a very hopeful book. One is deeply inspired as he follows along the great moments and disappointments [...]

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Wandering Star – Le Clezio

Wandering Star is a book by the French 2008 Nobel Prize winner J. M. G. Le Clezio. It tells the story of two women, Esther, a Jew who has to flee her town from Germans and is amongst the people who dream of doing to  Jerusalem, and Nejma, a Palestinian girl who is staying at [...]

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Living to tell the tale – Gabriel García Márquez

In Marquez’s detailed 2003 memoir, Living to tell the Tale, he recounts the details of his life as a struggling writer and journalist, until the day he proposed to his wife. The book begins when the author’s mother, after several years, visits her poverty-stricken son to ask him to accompany her back to his hometown, [...]

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Memorable moments from Love in the Time of Cholera

Here I’d like to share with you some memorable parts I came across from Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia Marquez) which I’ll always treasure: It was fortunate that after so much governmental instability because of so many superimposed civil wars, academic standards were less selective that they had been, and there was a [...]

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My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk

Title: My Name is Red Author: Orhan Pamuk Date published: 1998 (2001 in English) Number of pages: 413 My rating: 8/10 (a vibrant, amusing yet serious novel) My Name is Red, a novel by the Nobel prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, takes place in the sixteenth century in Istanbul, Turkey. It’s a novel about how [...]

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Buy the book at Amazon After impatiently reading the last pages, I’ve finally finished Love in the Time of Cholera. The story begins with the accidental death of Dr. Juvenal Urbino, the husband of a woman named Fermina Daza.Read my review of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by the same author.   Then it switches [...]

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One Hundred years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Today I have accomplished a great achievement – I’ve finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novella by the noted Colombian author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who has written other great works including Chronicle of a Death Foretold – which I’ve already read and appreciated, and Love in the Time of Cholera. I found One [...]

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