Books :)

I loved literature! Yes I said it in past tense, because of one thing: studying sociology has taken from me the interest on literature books. Now when I go to a bookstore I just focalized on the sociological books, not the poetry, historical or literature books. But in summertime this tendency changes, I read other kind of books depending of my interests in that time. For example last summer I read Latin American authors from the twentieth century (like Gabriel García Marquez, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Maria Luisa Bombal and Juan Rulfo). And the summer before that I read classical authors as Shakespeare, Chéjov, Tolstoi and Dostoievski. But that’s the only time of the year that I read literature books.

My mom tried to incentive my reading habits when I was a child, she used to take me and my brothers to the public library to look for a book to read. Since that time the books have had a special place in my life.

My favorite book from all times is “the perfume”. An art piece written by Patrick Süskind. I remember that I didn’t want to finish the book, I wanted to read it forever, but obviously that didn’t happened and I finished it and I got obsessed with the story, I started to smell things different, just like the principal character.

The Last book I read was ‘the kiss of the spiderwoman’ from Puig, it took me forever to finish it because the book got lost during the summer, I started to read it in December and in February I found it and finished it. The story is about two prisoners that share a cell together and tell each other stories, that way the time goes faster and they don’t lose their minds. Extremely recommended!

I think this summer I will meet Roberto Bolaño, I have received great comments about his books.