I've just started my new book; Love in the Time of Cholera. It's a beautiful story about one man's life-long devotion to the love of his life and how all the many forms of love are threaded throughout this book.


So far in my reading, I've read about a Dr. Juvenal Urbino who examines the body of dead friend and very competetive chess player, Jeremiah de Saint Armour who committed suicide by inhaling cyanide vapors. However, in all the cases of suicides by cyanide he has seen, this is the first one that has "not been triggered by a torturous love". He then arranges for Armour to be buried the same afternoon as one of his medical students' silver anniversary, even though Armour is an athiest. He had found a letter in Armour's handwriting speaking about his secret lover and directions leading Urbino to a safe in which there was enough money to pay for the funeral. Armour planned his suicide. He swore to never get old so he he committed suicide at the age of 60. When Urbino met with his secret lover, she told me that she knew was Armour was planning all along and that she had nearly defeated him at his last chess game. Sound confusing? Well, this book is written in a way in which most of the content in chapter one will be explained more in depth later in the story. So how does this all tie in with lorentino Ariza and Fermina Diaz, which the story is actually about? We'll find out..