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I read Identity by Milan Kundera & Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

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A brief introduction Hello everybody, and welcome back to my blog. As I mentioned in my last post, My Journey as a Reader , I have made reading daily a big deal, I can say it’s now my lifetime goal, and I'm here to share my readings with you. I have already told you guys my story, and I have always been someone who enjoys reading, doing it more or less often, but loving it regardless. One more thing to have in mind, I have always had many books at home, I liked them from a young age, and my mom has always made sure that I would have them available to read. During my time studying Literature at the university, my book collection grew even more. As I also mentioned in my previous post, back in 2019, when I moved from Brazil to Canada, I sold every book I had. I used the money to help with fees, and I immigrated to Canada " bookless ". I realized that having a massive number of books around the house was relatively inefficient; however, nobody told me what to do with the emo

My Journey as a Reader

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    Hello readers, Welcome to my blog! To start things up, I wanted to share my journey as a reader and how I decided to make reading daily my lifetime goal. Like many others, I learned how to read in school, but I have always been especially interested in books. When I was a kid, I remember watching my mother spend many hours of her weekends reading books seemed to be such an exciting way to spend time. To make me join her during reading time, she would buy packs of comic books and take them home to read to me.  I was always interested in the stories on every comic she'd read, and I always asked her to read the same stories repeatedly. I listened to the stories just so many times. While looking at the pictures in the comics, I memorized what happened on every page. Later on, I'd gather my cousins around and tell them that I had learned how to read; I'd flick through the pages and tell them the story I had memorized from beginning to end. In my head as a kid, it was so cool