Source: own
Books are very important in my life, because they opened (and continue to open) doors and windows for me and showed me paths that I would otherwise never have imagined or traveled.
I was a late reader of books, I began to read them on a regular basis when I was thirteen. Before, I also read, above all comics and comics, which is another form of reading that led me to be what I am today.
I began to read regularly when I arrived at Alonso Quesada High School to study high school in September 1980.
At Alonso Quesada I began to relate to books, led by the teachers of Language and Literature, knowing the great writers we had in Spain.
Perhaps, the turning point, where everything changed, was in the second year of high school when a teacher of Language and Literature invited us to participate in a reading club, which met every fifteen days in the afternoon at the institute. I didn't think about it and signed up. It was the best decision I had made in a long time, because, from that moment on, my life took a 180-degree turn, because my vision of the world, which was tiny, widened in an extraordinary way, as if I had been given a wide angle with which I could access a multitude of knowledge that I didn't have before.
From that moment I began to read in an almost compulsive way, I read all that fell into my hand, not only the compulsory reading novels that we put in high school, but also the novels that my friends left me and those that I borrowed from the high school library because at that time the family economy was not very buoyant.
So books and reading began to become part of my life and have not ceased to be since those days when I discovered them, with the discouragement that I would have liked to have started reading books earlier, but the circumstances were what they were.
Whenever I give a talk to children and young people, I don't miss the opportunity to tell them to read, to immerse themselves in the books because I'm sure they will have the opportunity to change their lives forever. Of that I am absolutely certain.
