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No tengo idea de cómo reseñar una autobiografía. Solo puedo decir que me encantó la forma en que está escrita, su narrativa, y cómo se siente como si ella misma te estuviera contando su historia. Va dando saltos entre recuerdos, deteniéndose en pensamientos que le surgen en el momento, y apoyándose en muchas citas de otros que, para ella, logran expresar mejor lo que quiere decir. También fue, para mí, un libro bastante informativo, sobre todo por esos pequeños vistazos a una Colombia que yo no viví, pero que seguramente ha influido en cómo es el país hoy. Y, la verdad, también me dejó pensando en que no mucho ha cambiado… :(
When I first started reading (around age 12), I mostly read whatever my mom could get for me. Later on, when I learned how to navigate the internet and use a computer, I started discovering books through blogs and reading forums. I slowly curated which blogs to follow, usually readers whose tastes matched mine, and I trusted that if they liked a book, I probably would too. Then I moved to Libby… and honestly? I’m not entirely sure how I kept finding things to read 😅 I don’t know if I just picked whatever showed up there or how I always had something lined up. That period feels like a weird blank in my memory. Content creators, Bookstagrammers, or BookTubers were never really my way of choosing books. I think I only follow one, and that’s because my mom recommended her to me after noticing the creator also loved Laura Gallego García (and I was like, okay, fair point). It was very much a “a book recommending a person” kind of thing. Still, I didn’t really read what she recommended… until last year, when I finally read the trilogy she wrote. I loved it and thought, okay, maybe I should actually listen to you. Yesterday I ended up binge-watching her YouTube videos and adding several of the books she mentioned that caught my attention to my tbr. But she’s really the only one.
Now with Pagebound, I’m loving the “emoji of the day” feature, it somehow keeps growing my Interested and my TBR status/shelves nonstop.
Another way, I think, was simply going to bookstores (there were only two in my city, with one only having the type of books i actually liked). So, I think that’s also how I started discovering books once I began using Libby 🤔
What about you? How has the way you discover new books changed over the years?
How did you get into reading? I know maybe a simple question, but I got into reading because of my Godmother, she was a librarian for a school board and always gifted me books for Christmas and birthdays growing up. They would always be different genres and always something i would never choose myself. This made me really appreciate stepping outside your comfort zone to find something you may like (or may not like lol). Last year, we decided to share a read together and again it was something I likely would have not picked up myself, but I was left with that feeling of appreciation for stepping outside your comfort zone and nostalgia for the old traditions manifesting itself in different ways.
So how does your story go? Have you been a reader since before you can remember? Was there a teacher or loved one that showed you the joys of reading? Or did you stumble upon reading later on in life?
Tell me, I'm nosy!!
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tsuyomi commented...
Since I was little, I remember reading a lot of children’s books with my mom, and her taking me to the library from time to time. But, my favorite place was always the bookstore, which was closer to our home. Even though I knew we didn’t really have the money to buy anything (6–7 y.o.), I still loved being there. And it still is my special place. The bookstore we used to go to had a kids’ area, with a small table and books you could just grab and flip through, and I loved that so much . Then there was a time when I didn’t read anymore. I had basically outgrown the books we had at home, so reading just… stopped. Until I watched the Percy Jackson movie, and my mom, very casually, said something like: “You know, that’s a book. Would you like to read it?” And I was like, well yeah, why not (13 y.o.). She got it for me..., and from then on I kept asking for more. My mom slowly became my book dealer, until I learned how to find books on my own. A few years ago, my city library started using Libby, and I’ve been reading continously since then, now also audiobooks. And with Libby, I kind of wanted to give that love and time for reading back to my mom, because she had stopped reading for a long time. So I secretly installed Libby on her phone, because she was too stubborn to listen to me about this platform, and not wanting to install it bc of storage 🙄. But once I showed her how it worked, audiobooks, ebooks, everything, and got her the library card, she started reading again. Since then, she's been reading consistently, discovering new tastes and new genres, and we are now both happy readers 😊.