Sad, sad news today. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died. He was one of my very favourite authors, and that’s not something I declare lightly. Do yourself a favour and read (or reread) One Hundred Years of Solitude before too long. But don’t expect to read it straight through. If you find yourself stopping every so often, completely awestruck that one man’s mind can put together words in a way that is just so, crafting passages that are transcendent, well then, you are reading it properly!