I liked the book. But I don't think I love it. Not yet anyway. I'll think about it for awhile and see if my opinion of it changes over time. I'm certainly glad I read it though.
Now that I've taken up the last 2 months reading the same book, its time to move on. Its taken me awhile to get my hands on these books from the library. Then of course, I suddenly got both at once when I was at the libary last week. 100 Years of Solitude was shelved incorrectly (with the M's instead of the G's) - my good deed for that day was taking the rest of the incorrectly shelved Garcia Marquez books and putting them with the G's. And that's how I found the copy that had eluded me online for so long. I was on a waiting list for Memoirs of a Geisha. But now I have a tough choice. I fear that I will only have time to read one before the due date. But they're both in such high demand, that I probably won't be able to renew the one I choose to read second. I'll have to return it unread. What to do...
Memoirs of a Geisha
or
100 Years of Solitude
The back story is that I was a Spanish major and have read several of Garcia Marquez' short pieces. This book escaped my reading lists and now I find that a lot of random people I know LOVE it. My original goal was to read it in Spanish. But I can't take another 2 months of the same book which is surely what will happen if I attempt Cien AƱos de Soledad.
Memoirs of a Geisha simply got on my book list because I wanted to read it before seeing the movie. The movie has come and gone in the theaters and I couldn´t get a copy from the library in time. Also I think I lost interest. But there's a Crafty Geisha I know who has reminded me about it :)
Care to weigh in?
In an upcoming post, I'll unveil the rest of the books on my list. Can you handle all this excitement?
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
More on the book front
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2 comments:
Read 100 years of Solitude...
I'll mail you Memoirs of a Geisha
MM... Memoirs of a Geisha is my favourite book (to give you a bit of an idea of whether that carries any weight or not, some of the other books I love are: Chocolat, anything by Ngaio Marsh, and Voyage of the Narwhal - the true story behind Moby Dick!) so I'd have to plump for that one. I tried 100 years of Solitude a few years and just couldn't get into it. That doesn't mean I don't still have it on my list of books to read... just not very high up.
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