I think I will actually try to read this book. I’m so busy with my offline job that I hardly ever get a chance for pleasure reading. Let’s see if that will change.

Oprah Winfrey picked “Love in the Time of Cholera” as her next book club selection on Friday, the second time she has chosen a novel by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Her latest choice comes ahead of the November release of a film adaptation of the book starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem and American actor Benjamin Bratt.

“This is one of the greatest love stories I have ever read. It’s a captivating story about a passionate but troubled love affair that takes place over the course of 50 years,” Oprah wrote on her Web site after announcing the selection on her daytime talk show.

“It is so beautifully written that it really takes you to another place in time and will make you ask yourself — how long could you, or would you, wait for love?”

Hmmm….