"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"

I remember feeling like a chore when I read it in school, but when I listened to the audio book, I finally "got" it! I'm glad i gave it a second chance.

Definitely want to read. Thanks

This was not just entertainment. It was performance, it was free speech, it was history, it was holding a mirror to the USA. It was ART.

Connie Willis

When i first came the way I heard English was rude rather than succinct and efficient. Yeah, a lot prejudices, but now I am hybrid of the two cultures. Forgive the wordiness.

100 Years of Solitude is pure south American poetry. English is, like north Americans, so efficient and abrupt that many English speakers find the whole magical realism and the "wordiness" a bit much. I guess it's a cultural affectation that speaks to me better than someone like Hemingway.

Yes, I had to read Anna Karenina in high school. Being 16 & only three years into learning English (my first language is español) , I understood the book at a very superficial level. Ten years later, I understood the complexity of Anna's life as a woman of a particular time and place.

You are talented! Your characters are well done & have a lot of personality - funny and original, too. Thanks for sharing your work. 🤩

I've read all of these!