Books

Have you ever imagined a fantasy world? Well... books do what transports you to another world for a few moments. They keep us informed, awake our imagination, they give us inspiration and bring ideas to life. They allow us to connect and put ourselves in the shoes of other people or characters. Reading allows us to open our minds, and let ourselves be carried away by our imagination. Through reading, we can learn about different ways of expressing our knowledge, feelings, and emotions. Through books, we can know other places, other stories, and other people. I never really liked reading, but during the pandemic I had a lot of free time so I decided that reading was a good option, it was the best decision I could have made, nowadays I can't spend a day without reading a book. In this blog entry I'm going to explain which books are my favorite and why; then, I'll share why read books is so important; and lastly, how we can start writing a book.

I don't usually have favorite things but when it comes to books there are many of them that become my number one for months, one of them is a Peculiar Prince by Andy Bonell, it was one of the first books I read, it's romance and comedy, it's maybe a cliché but I like it a lot, the Central Park elevator by Ludmila Ramys is not far behind, my relationship with this book is love hate, it is by a Spanish author, so the book is written in Spanish from Spain, and there are many words that cause me conflict, no, It's about romance, rather it's a book about how the characters become friends through history. But recently I came across a book of poetry by Ana María Rojas, who is a Guatemalan writer, I liked it a lot, I haven't finished it yet, but there are so many poems that I liked a lot, one of them was "What I do is not good, It's not bad, it's mine" - Ana María Rojas.

Books exercise our brain, awaken neural pathways, activate memory, they make us remember, know and learn, release our emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, love... they keep us busy, entertained and distracted. Reading is a habit that can improve the social and human conditions of any reader, it allows you to think with reflection and develop the cognitive aspects of the brain, which helps to exercise all the cells and always be active for any activity that is carried out in the daily life. Everything around us is reading. Right now, you are reading this text and a while ago you were reading a note on your phone, a book, a recipe, or a letter. Reading is communication, it is essential to stay connected to the world and to people. Without reading we wouldn't know, we would not have information and it would cost us more to imagine. Reading is essential and it is something that we must nurture throughout our lives.

In 2021 I started writing a book, I had no knowledge of how to start one but there I was trying to create a very cliché and embarrassing romance story, I decided to delete it a few months later since I had no idea how to carry the story and it was very overwhelming, that's why it's important that if you want to write a book, you have to have the proper knowledge of how to start one. The first step in writing a book is to have an idea. But, to know how to write it, you will have to be clear about the theme and the literary genre, do you want to convey your feelings? In that case it is best to bet on poetry. Although of course, you can share your emotions around a specific passage in your life, perhaps what you should do is bet on autobiography. And if what you want to transmit is an exciting story? The novel is undoubtedly your best bet, as long as it does not have the characteristics that fit a short story.

Books are a fundamental part of education, since they guide us towards knowledge, make us use our imagination, make us dreamers, and show us wonderful and incredible things. They are full of knowledge, they give us important life lessons: Books teach us to overcome everyday difficulties, to overcome fear. They teaches us about love, in short, about a multitude of aspects of life, books are many centuries old, and they reveal information about our historical past.