My journey as a reader

Since I remember I love reading, so the means , the times and sure the topics in my readings have changed, but not the interest and the passion for it. That it is why it is so mixed with my life and my experiences as a person. I started my journey as a reader , or better said as a listener of stories, with all the wonderful stories that my grandma used to tell me and all my " primos" during our holidays in a little village in la Sierra de Segura.Then, a few years later, when I was able to read by myself, I continued my trip to literature with the help of a bunch of comics and magazines that I bought on a weekly basis, just for fun with no other interest that to see the pictures of my favorite singers or bands or tv sitcoms actors (V and the "visitantes" among the most influencial!) the funny stories in the comics and I loved graphic novels too. Lately, I found out about the public library in the little town where I used to live, and that was love at first sight. I couldn´t believe that all those books were available to me for free, and I remember reading 2 books every week: Los Cinco, Esther etc, were part of my early years as a teenager.Once I enrolled the middle school, my interests changed, and thanks to moving to a new town and meeting new friends, I started reading real novels whose main topics were mostly love with crime, love with adultery, love with travels and love and drama all the classics for an emerging teenager, but I was still reading just for fun and I don´t remember any mandatory readings before high school. High school was a busy time and a time of change for me. I started getting interested in more social issues, politics,international news, music, and thanks to moving to a new town -again- I met my friends, a group of weirdos who loved reading too, and who introduced me to wonderful writers that taught me so many things in their books,some of them made me wanted to read them in their native language which was English, so reading started my romance with English too. Reading and the band of music The Cure, of course. The more English I learned, the more opportunities to get little short stories to read in the English Language. In College, I discovered all the English classics and reading was an important part of my formation, also I started reading with a goal, to pass my tests and to get a degree. I read on a daily basis, for pleasure mostly before going to bed, I am an old fashion lady who can not sleep without reading at least a couple of pages everynight! For me reading has always been connected to learning :Books, ipads, cell phones, all of them provide me with the opportunity of using reading as a tool to enjoy, learn, have fun and hopefully being a better human being!