Book five of 2015 is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It has been eight years since I moved a book in to my top ten all time reads but this is more deserving than more than half of those in that list.
Considering this was written in Spanish and translated (by the amazingly consistent Penguin Books) in to English, it is brilliant. We have been embarrassed in our own language.
When I first started reading this, I described it to a friend and she said "oh, it's a romance novel" but oh how it isn't. This is a book about love that happened too early and too late in life. It is about duty and the love found in commitment. It is about passionate love and about sensible love and about the ease we find in both.
At this exact point in my life, this is an apt and poignant story that made me see love as an activity for grown ups.
Five reasons to love out of five.
Should I read this? Yes. Just yes.
What did I learn? How to see love as something that is forever. I forgot that.
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