Category Archives: LITERATURE

LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 14, 2005 by susan

Ah, the prodigal son returns.  Jose, who took off with the gypsies, Aurielano’s brother, has returned.  A wanderer of land and seas, a big hulk of a man who has grown to almost match the size of his penis, which, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 13, 2005 by susan

Unless two members of the Buendia family get to face a firing squad, page 96 of the Harper Perennial edition of 100 Years of Solitude includes an error in naming Arcadio rather than Aureliano as the man so honored:  "She … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Discussion

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Susan

Okay, I get it.  Even though 100 Years of Solitude was in fact a selection of Oprah’s Book Club, I’m a bit late.  So what am I supposed to be reading now? Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading Well

Posted on September 13, 2005 by Susan

I cannot be sure that it is the level of quality in the books and stories I am reading now, or if it is due to the learning of reading story (tx to se), or a combination of both, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Meaning through Humanness

Posted on September 13, 2005 by susan

Jose is distraught, his son Aureliano busy in the alchemy shop, his wife and daughter away, his inventions having proved nothing to him.  He is wrestling with ghosts, that of Prudencio, the man he killed back in the old village, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Character

Posted on September 12, 2005 by susan

Jose Arcadio Buendia is a man of vision, a man of hope, and a man of science.  He has the inquisitive mind that will ask the questions and look for answers.  What man would look at the invention of the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 12, 2005 by susan

See, this is why it is useless to keep this up as a literary weblog, for I will never be recognized as such. My general impression of 100 Years of Solitude thus far, summed up in one word:  Delightful! I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years – Characters in Time

Posted on September 10, 2005 by susan

Few books begin with an opening line that affects the reading of the unfolding story, yet this is what would mark a "grabber", a "headline" that is taught in writing.  In 100 Years, Marquez opened with a sentence that I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 9, 2005 by susan

The Buendia family is one driven by happenstance.  Their lives respond to who wanders into their village, what is brought, what is bought by Jose Arcadio.  Meanwhile, the young Jose is evidently astronomically endowed and has discovered its usefulness.  He … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: 100 Years – Format

Posted on September 8, 2005 by susan

I’ve mentioned before that one difference between book form and digital is the growing sense of loss–even as so much is gained in the reading of a good book–as the visual end draws near; the last quarter inch diminishing with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 5, 2005 by susan

There is so much going on in this book that it feels alive. It eventually will cover several generations of the Buendia family, who have settled in the little village of Macondo after a two-year trek from Colombia, S.A.  In … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years

Posted on September 3, 2005 by susan

I have just gotten a few pages into Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude but I’m already enchanted by it. How can you not love a character who, from a gypsy who brings to the small village of Macondo the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: 100 Years of Solitude

Posted on September 2, 2005 by susan

Needless to say, this is going to take up a lot of my blogging for a while, and no, I’m not going to keep to myself and read the whole damn book first.  Tain’t my style.  As a matter of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Amazon Delivereth

Posted on September 1, 2005 by Susan

Oh Lord, Didascalicon may yet again be put aside: "I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville.   One and only one.  My arrest and my testimony.  I went up there and visited with him two or three times.  Three … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Novel Selection

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Susan

Finally ordered my selection for my next novel reading:  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  It was just mentioned again recently here and I have been meaning for a long time to read it.  It should be … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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