Book day: happy ones who read

Networks, television, movies. Everyone seems to be more present nowadays than the book, this companion who sometimes rests on the night table, waiting for us to open it; overlapping libraries, matchmaking stories and authors, editorials and styles; it gives us great moments and plots.

Today is your day. By a strange coincidence, two founders of literature, Shakespeare and Cervantes, died on April 23. And several centuries later, a Spanish bookseller, Vicent Clavel Andrés, obtained that the Official Chamber of the Book of Barcelona approves the celebration of the Day of the Book. And here we are, remembering that today is your day.

The industry is not going through a great time, that's right. But the book resists. Resist time even if you have decreed death several times and resist pessimism. His stories are fed by the best blockbusters and movies. Above all, their stories feed readers who wait for us every time we open the first page.

The Spanish narrative poet, Manuel Vila, wrote today in the newspaper El País something very true about reading: "A book can enlighten your soul, that's the secret.Let your soul illuminate.A book can remind you that beauty exists.A book can remind you that being free is possible. book can make you fall in love with yourself.You have to find the book that solves your life.I've been looking for this book for years and years.That's why I keep reading, looking for the great treasure that In a few clear, simple and brief pages, the bell of joy echoes in my soul, We seek joy in books, I seek it. "

And he's right. He also said Rodrigo Fresán, in this beautiful book entitled "Los jardines de Kensigton". "Blessed are those who have read a lot during their childhood because of them, it may never be the kingdom of heaven, but they can access the kingdom of heaven and learn the many ways out of the world. hell through non-fictional strategies of fictional characters ".

For some reason, the book – and the stories it contains – are a necessary driver, a great way to travel without leaving the chair, to find out; get lost in an unlikely world, and enjoy it.