Hello, beautiful people of Read.cash!
It's been a couple of days since I've written anything here and this morning I had a bit of a blank mind but after reading a couple of articles and answering some questions for a Hive book club contest, my ideas started flowing again. That's the wonderful thing about reading that our minds are awakened every time we read.
I have loved reading since I was a child. In my house, reading was always a habit that my parents had and without a doubt, children learn by imitation. When I was a child, I used to love Louisa May Alcott's books. Then I remember having a couple of literature teachers in school who made us read everything, from Shakespeare to Cervantes' Don Quixote. And of course, Latin American literature. I first knew what it was like to get hooked on a novel the first time I read Cien Años de Soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). And not to mention when I discovered that there was more than a way to read a book when I read Rayuela by Julio Cortazar for the first time.
I don't know how it is in your countries, but most people here aren't very good readers. The actual educational system doesn't help to encourage reading among the youngest. Not long ago, I was talking with my son about this. One of the things he mentioned is how in most of the houses there aren't books. There aren't books but there is always a big TV. I have nothing against having a TV. But in a house where there are no books, aren't readers.
I love getting a book as a gift. And I liked it when my son got a storybook as a gift when he was little, but most of my son's friends didn't appreciate getting a book as a gift.
I like to read any book with a story that grabs you, no matter if it is a true story or fiction. I like suspense, mysteries novels. Romance classics novels and historical ones. I must confess that I'm not very fond of poetry, although there are some exceptions.
I like to read at night before going to sleep, but any time and place are good for reading. During the lockdown last year, I remember reading so much, I could finish a novel in two days. Lately, my time to read books has been reduced by the time I spend reading articles on these platforms, but I still read a lot.
The other thing I love is a bookstore where you can spend hours browsing through books, but now there are hardly any of those bookstores left here. I remember when I was young, I dreamed of having a bookstore, one of those with a cafe and poufs where you can lie down and read for a while. So when I have been able to travel in my list of places to visit in the big cities are included bookstores and markets. I have always thought that markets and bookstores say a lot about the place and the people who live there.
The latest book I read is Pyongyang. It's a comics novel by Guy Delisle, that tells about his experience working for some months in a French animation company in Pyongyang. The book is an easy-to-read short novel and the insight into the experience of foreigners visiting North Korea is very interesting.
And the book I'm starting to read is another comics book, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. An autobiographical book that tells the experiences of a young Iranian, in Iran and Austria during and after the Islamic revolution in Iran.
Do you like to read? What is your favorite reading genre?
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November 23, 2021
A mi también me gusta leer, aunque tenía tiempo que ko lo hacía como ahora, claro que esta plataforma y en Noise. Pero antes leía mucho las novelas de esas pequeñitas. Recuerdo que mi suegra tenía muchas y las leía cuando entraba en el baño que era cuando se daba un tiempo para leer. Por cierto su pequeña biblioteca de sus novelas la tenía en el baño.
También aprovechaba de leerlas. Pero eran tan buenas y bonitas. Que yo me pasaba el día leyendo las. Hacíamos competencia a ver quién las leía más rápido y conversábamos sobre los hechos ocurridos .
Lucho para que mi niña de 8 años lea, no le gusta para nada.