In what I
like to call my “book depository” – which is basically a stacked pile of books
in a corner in my bedroom – a book has sat in patient wait of the day when I would
give it the attention it deserved for almost two years. I’ve partially read it,
wrote assignments and even an exam on it but I never appreciated or even
completed it. I then remembered, randomly last night whilst watching Parenthood
and drinking coffee a line from the first few pages of the book that reads “Things
have a life of their own, it’s simply a matter of waking up their souls” this
beckoned for me to once again revisit the novel and that is precisely what I did.
Written by
the author of acclaimed “Love in a Time of Cholera” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “One
Hundred Years of Solitude” is my current re-read and this time I promise to
finish it.
