Group Read, July 2022: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

Our group read for July 2022 is The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis. Please join in the read and post any comments on this thread.

I am currently in the middle of the second story. I was surprised by the eloquence of the writing. And while Maqroll may be a cad, for some reason I was expecting something more along the lines of of a picturesque novel, more plodding and crude. I quite like it, but as my libraries don't have an ebook and it's too big for a subway reading, it's going to take a while to read!

I started this book last night and it's clearly going to be absolutely wonderful. But I find myself somehow not able to take on such a massive tome, comprised of seven separate books, when I am already gradually working through the 1600-page long Anniversaries for our other, year-long group read. It's just too daunting to be involved in two such huge, multi-book books at once. Since I now own The Adventures, I will simply put it aside and read it when I am done with Anniversaries. I suspect that I will enjoy it more than Anniversaries!