Your bookshelf

One of my many bookshelves

This has been a really long and unproductive weekend, I still have a free Monday ahead and i get to spend it in Leon, with all the things i have pending in Guanajuato, so, well, i just suddenly felt really inspired and decided to take some pictures (You can keep track of all of this non-stop silliness through twitter). This one you have here is one of the many bookshelves i have here and there, this one in particular is at my mother’s place.

A few days ago I had a friend visiting my tiny bitty house in Guanajuato, and for some reason we ended up in my kitchen, which (quite conveniently) is full of books and art supplies. I normally don’t pay any attention to them, I mean, they are there and i love them, but i get to see them every single day, so i’m more than used to them, however, sometimes i forget it’s not common to have that amount of books in one’s kitchen (they are a lot, believe me, shelves and shelves full of books).

He immediately went and check them out, and started talking about how great some of them were, all that russian classic literature, all the naturalism, the modernism, latin american boom and more. To be quite honest, these are books my mom and dad gathered together when they were younger and I was a baby, so I hadn’t even read half the books I have, so I got really surprised to noticed I have some of the books I’ve been wanting to buy for ages and even some repeated ones, like a really old edition of The unbearable lightness of being, and one i got from a friend about 5 months ago, and a Lolita edition I’ve been wanting for quite a while (duh!).

Lo-li-ta

This very morning, I had a really small conversation with @peremartinez about the books I normally read, and some recommendations, which got me thinking: It’s been a while since i don’t read anything that really strikes my fancy, I mean, I just finished reading The Twilight Saga —but I wouldn’t call that my regular kind of books, as i stated before, I started reading them out of curiosity, but ended up liking the story, but i digress,  and right now I submerged on reading Lolita, but still, I’m looking for more.

So, I thought: Why don’t you guys tell me what’s on your Favorite Bookshelf? I love biographies, novels, and poetry. I enjoy from Almudena Grandes to Jane Austen, so i’m sure i will enjoy pretty much whatever your suggestion is. Leave a comment here or send me an email with your weapon of choice, tell me what really makes you shiver down your spine. What makes you feel passionate while reading? What do you consider an unvaluable piece of literature none should be allowed to walk on the streets without reading? For me it’s The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera, I cannot stress enough how importat that book has been for me and the impact it’s had in my life (there you have my very own suggestion).

I promise I’ll read as many of your books as I can!

Amino Love and Acid Kisses

- Kou