My First Blog Post!...it's not really that exciting (9-23-13)

Today I began to read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Although I am already only about 15 pages in, I can already tell that I am going to enjoy this book. Marquez’s writing has a beautiful flow to it. He writes with such a style that I can almost feel the warmth of the sun in the small town of Macondo, where the book begins. He has only begun to write about Jose Arcadio Buendia. Jose is shown to be a man who feels that the grass is always greener. He is constantly mystified by the inventions brought to Macondo by a traveling group of Gypsies. Jose trades money, possessions, time, and energy to find novel ways to prosper. I am very excited to continue reading this book and I feel that it will be a difficult one to put down.