If you don't have a pension for reading this may be a bit boring for you, but shame on you for not reading...it's fundamental after all.
Yesterday, on a whim, I went to the library. Well, I guess it wasn't really a whim; I did need to get a book for a monologue I needed.
However, something about the library just makes you wander around. I don't really understand it, I think it is some magical spell that a large collection of books acquires and draws you in. You walk down row after row, not even sure what section you are really in; but that doesn't even matter. Even if I do have a specific book I'm on a quest for, I either go in search of more or just sit down in the isle and just read a bit. It's like nothing else is around all the cares of the day and things yet to be done don't exist; for the time being you are in you're own world. That may sound nerdy, but whatever, it's true. However, I find this only true when in a large library not like the tiny one that is down the street from by house back home.
Any way the point of this little adventure. While wandering yesterday I ended up in a section that I'm guessing you'd call the foreign section. There are books in a variety of different languages and by a variety of different authors from other countries. In a way it's like a club that you aren't really invited to, that is if you can't read and understand that other language.
They do have translated versions, but I wonder if parts are lost in translation.
The novel I stumbled upon is called In Her Absence and it was such a good book, considering I did finish it in about a day or so; and the author looks like a cross between Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I mean it was kind of a depressing love story of types, but the way it was written and the characters made it a great circular story. At times you feel so like the characters and yet so unlike them, but you still forge a connection with the characters and can't help but feel for them. It takes place in Spain, as it was originally written in Spanish. Needless to say, I fully recommend this book; if you get the chance you should definitely read it.
