We all love to travel, to new places, new cities in cars, buses, caravans, by air, by the sea but I have travelled everyday since I was ten through books. I have let the ocean kiss my feet on the Coast of Ipanema and nosed around in Calgary and my travel expenses have never been more than the price of a McDonald Cheese Burger. Here's my travelogue where books can be found through the countries they have taken me to. The reviews are not professional and definitely not worth putting into a book review assignment for school! They are just a string of words that tell you what I felt when I travelled to a certain place. If it suits you, you go and book yourself a trip. If not, well...we'll keep it there!

Friday, March 8, 2013


No One Writes To The ColonelNo One Writes To The Colonel by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Though certainly not the best book by Marquez , ' 'No One Writes to the Colonel' has a rare, bittersweet quality that only a book by Marquez can possess. In fact if I have to quote the man himself,I'd say, this book reminds me of 'the smell of bitter almonds'. In its subject matter and form it is very close to stories of O. Henry which have the quality of being sad and yet beautiful. To quite an extent, it also bears the mark of being the first few stories by a relatively new author for though, the story is essentially Marquezian, (or Gabrielian, for that matter) it wasn't the Marquez I see in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude or in'Of Love and other Demons'. Still, it is beautifully poignant and extremely touching and shall always stay close to my heart.

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