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My first attempts to be a bookworm

Ever since I could read, I loved reading. I glanced at my father’s book collection, who had a rather versatile and peculiar taste in books with admiration. Anything you could imagine was there: beginning with classics and historical novels, scientific stuff and ending up with so popular these days self-help books on how to lead a happy and fulfilling life.

My mum, on the other hand, was very predictable with her choice of bedtime reading. It was the era of women’s novels with rather intimate pictures of a man and a lady falling in love. One day I stole one of her books (obviously, with the most outrageous and explicit book cover). The name of the book slips my mind but I remember its rather explicit cover depicting a tiny beautiful woman in hands of a strong handsome man. That could, without a doubt, fire imagination of my immature mind.

Surprisingly, the book turned out to be a great read. That flabbergasted even me that time. The book burst with beautiful language and metaphors and it gave an unusual insight into the history of Indians (the American woman falls in love with the Indian man – so was the plot). The whole experience turned out to be educational and entertaining (my number one combination for activities).

Then you could probably imagine my happiness when I realized how many unputdownable books there are in the world and the comprehension that I have an opportunity to read some of them blew my mind. I became very choosy with my reading.

Last year I limited my social media usage and read 20 books. You can’t even imagine how proud I was (you should imagine a peacock and its tail demonstration). It is, of course, a small number of books, but I’ve learned so much from them, traveled to different eras, developed myself. I became a new version of myself.

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Taken on: August 28, 2020

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