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In praise of reading and fiction
Dec. 15th, 2010 03:05 amI got up today to this wonderful speech that I didn't get to listen the day it was told.
To be honest, I've never read anything by Mario Vargas Llosa. I think the summaries of his novels never appealed particularly to me. Who knows, maybe in the future I'll find a moment to remedy that. Today I still feel like spending the few free moments I have reading Good Omens and Sherlock's fanfics.
However, this morning I found the words of the Nobel prize in Literature warm and splendid. An ode to Literature and fiction (including fanfiction).
If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend you to do it. Here's the full lecture in Spanish and here's in English but if you're feeling kind of lazy, here are my favourite parts:
( Read more... )
That summarizes quite effectively why I love reading and so, this is a little post to sayTHANK YOU
to all of you who write wonderful fics for the love of it ♥
To be honest, I've never read anything by Mario Vargas Llosa. I think the summaries of his novels never appealed particularly to me. Who knows, maybe in the future I'll find a moment to remedy that. Today I still feel like spending the few free moments I have reading Good Omens and Sherlock's fanfics.
However, this morning I found the words of the Nobel prize in Literature warm and splendid. An ode to Literature and fiction (including fanfiction).
If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend you to do it. Here's the full lecture in Spanish and here's in English but if you're feeling kind of lazy, here are my favourite parts:
( Read more... )
That summarizes quite effectively why I love reading and so, this is a little post to say
to all of you who write wonderful fics for the love of it ♥
