Living to Tell the Tale | 
pickThis slow memoir covers the early life of a starving journalist with a sleepless nightlife full of prostitutes and an incredibly well-educated milleu. Fascinated by the poverty, the history and lifestyle, and details like the famous stories his friends pulled out of his trash.
I started this book on Nov 8. Some 48 days later in a hotel room on vacation I finally finished it. (21 hours of unfocused reading here and there).
Dumb things of mine : Márquez in secondary school
“The gringos are never coming back,” he concluded.
The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at three in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love.
“Then she continued her contemplation of each place along the way, and I knew what she thought of them by the changes in her silences.“
The then young 20‘s Márquez returning to his childhood home with his mother. I spent a few days traveling and not reading, now getting back into the swing with this.
In an effort to cut down my massive TBR, am considering getting rid of these books. These are tagged above/in the comments.
Anyone think I‘d be making a huge mistake parting with any of them??
This is a memoir and possible contender for oldest book on my TBR - pretty sure I bought this when it came out in 2003 😱
I always kind of put off reading this on the basis that I needed to read a couple more of Marquez's novels first, not sure where that idea came from 🤷🏼♀️ No one ever said procrastination was logical!
#LiveToTell #AugustGrrrl
so-so"If it comes to becoming a writer I should be one of the major, and these don't do anymore".
CONFESSION
It's 15 mins til midnight, the end of another #readathon where I didn't finish a book. Not for lack of trying; not bc the books weren't good. But bc I'm a slow reader.
I spent 5hrs reading & only got to pg 150. It's embarrassing, esp seeing people read 2+ books this weekend. But I'm not going to beat myself up about it.
As an old saying goes, "it doesn't matter how fast you go so long as you don't stop" & I'm not stopping.
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