Love in the Time of Cholera

For my end of the year assignment, I have chosen to read Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. For some reason, I was instantly drawn to the novel simply by its title--possibly because I am fascinated by global health and the societal effects of disease permeation.

However, I was not entirely sold until I read the first five pages of the novel; I was instantly mesmerized by Marquez's brilliant turns-of-phrase and beautiful language flow. His descriptions of mundane, seemingly uninteresting subjects such as aging evole into an entity that is not "the unequivocal sign of the final decay, but a happy return to childhood." Such diction evokes a sense of reinvention and creativity that I know will provide me with an all new perspective upon these mundane things as I read further into the mind of Marquez.