Best read!
Thursday, November 6th, 2008My earliest childhood memory was me opening a small picture book. I already knew how to “read” some words back then, like “cat”, “dog” and such so I really have no memory when I actually started learning how to read. I developed love for books, specifically fiction, and since we had bookshelves filled with the, I never ran out of books to read.
I started buying books for my own collection in high school. I’ve always been a fast reader and being a student, I bought them from a famous second hand book store chain in my country. Until now, I still have the habit of buying 2nd hand books even if I can afford to buy new ones—some from a small shop in the city called Q8books and some from the Friday Market (they used to sell 2nd hand books over there only for 1/4 dinar each!).
It was in that Friday Market that I discovered “The Shadow of the Wind” a New York Bestseller written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It’s about the son of an antiquarian book dealer in 1945 Barcelona and how the mysterious book, “The Shadow of the Wind” pulled him in a web of dark secrets. An amazing plot, written in a way that there is a story within a story…Complex yet easy to read…
I wish I could write a novel like that…but then again…I lack one main ingredient…and that would be TALENT!
