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Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! No writer of his time exerted the magical appeal of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. In this long-awaited autobiography, the great Nobel laureate tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. The result is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is Garca Mrquezs shimmering evocation of his childhood home of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are the members of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forces that turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in images so vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living to Tell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
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Graywacke
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This 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.

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Graywacke
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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).

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Graywacke
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Dumb things of mine : Márquez in secondary school

BarbaraBB You‘re still on your García Márquez flow. Are you reading his complete works? 6y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB yes, well almost all his books. It was part of my 2018 plan (along with the NT). 6y
BarbaraBB Impressive. You must be an expert on him now. Do you notice certain themes, motives that you didn‘t know of? 6y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB Hmm. Not an expert, but have an overview and a sense of how his writing evolved and where some things came from, although he‘s still very much a mystery and I‘m only learning now, in this book, all my assumptions about where he came from were completely wrong. And yes, his themes talk between books. 6y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB Originally I started doing these themes with the idea of reading deeper. Not entirely sure that‘s what happened or still my justification. I think I may just like the structure. 6y
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Graywacke
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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.

MommyWantsToReadHerBook I loved that line. It's been about a year since I put the book on hold and have not been able to make myself pick it up again though I really do want to finish it! 6y
Graywacke I can understand that. It‘s rewarding and fascinating but also really slow. I‘m reading in bits and pieces. 6y
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Graywacke
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“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.

RaimeyGallant I will write like that someday, Raimey thinks to herself. 6y
Graywacke @RaimeyGallant Admiring your expectations. He‘s a master. 🙂 6y
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cariashley
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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??

Carolyn-HHI NOT making a big mistake parting with “The Magus” ... 7y
cariashley @Carolyn-HHI haha thanks! Yeah that one has been low on the list for a while! 7y
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Marchpane
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez
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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

JanuarieTimewalker13 True, but sometimes procrastination is intuition, I think. 7y
Cinfhen This memoir sounds fascinating...and I get your logic❣️ 7y
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Astroneman
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garc??a M??rquez

One like please !!!!

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Astroneman
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Mehso-so

"If it comes to becoming a writer I should be one of the major, and these don't do anymore".

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Astroneman
Vivir para contarla | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A part of my bookshelf...... "Yo vivo para contarla, la vida en los libros..." #book#bookshelf#mylife

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OffTheBeatenShelf.com
Living to Tell the Tale | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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SaturnDoo WTG!!! Congrats on not stopping ☺ The most important thing is you are enjoying what you're doing. 8y
BookishFeminist That's still awesome that you kept going! Who cares if you finish a book as long as you're enjoying yourself! We all do things at our own pace- that's the beauty of it. 😀 8y
Balibee146 I read slowly too...I see it as savouring the text. One of my least enjoyable reading years was when I set myself a goal of 80 books on goodreads. Reading just to finish is no fun to me Congratulations on your readathon. Yay for slower reading :-) 8y
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kgriffith No need at all to feel less accomplished than others! I really hope you had fun, that's the most important thing 😊 8y
Kimzey Great going! How's the book so far? 8y
Notafraidofwords I agree with everyone. You did great!!! I'm a slow reader too. 8y
LitHousewife You did fantastic! I read slowly, too. Get what you want to get out of these events. That's what it's all about. 8y
OffTheBeatenShelf.com @Kimzey It's wonderful! This one is his autobiography and it's interesting to see the various events and people in his life that sparked his novels. The book reads like one of his novels, too, which is nice. :) 8y
SaturnDoo @OffTheBeatenShelf.com I prefer auto biographies that read like fiction 8y
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