When I talk with some people I just met, there is a question they ask me:
“Can you recommend me a book?”
I love chattig and getting to know new people, but I don’t like this question at all.
Because this is a very “general” question, it has not been thought about…
It doesn’t have specific details. For me, reading is personal.
A ready-made formula won’t work. Also, the number of books a person can read in a lifetime is limited. In this case, I can’t recommend a book to you, sorry.
Note: I am sure that even if I suggest that book will not be read. You can try and be wrong. Yes, be wrong! This is the best way to learn.
An important reason why I get these questions is that I write book reviews. But at this point, an exception appears “about recommending books”: Children’s books!
Childhood is the shortest but most important period compared to human life. A person in this period should read the best examples of books. The most entertaining, artistic, and impressive books with the most impressive stories should be carefully selected. Unfortunately, parents and other adults do not have enough information on this point. At this point, I write book reviews and make interviews with the best authors in the world to be a guide for myself.
Sometimes when I walk around in a bookshop I see people looking at books, probably for their own children or a relative’s child. They only look at the colors on the cover of the book! It is almost a random choice. At that moment I feel a strong want to stop them. I had a similar experience the other day, let me tell you about it:
I was reading in the children’s book section of the library, behind a pile of wonderful picture books in front of me. Then a grandmother and a little girl (4-5 years) came in. They were excitedly and a little clumsily trying to choose a book. I was looking at them out of the corner of my eye from time to time.
They made their choice and sat at the same table with me. But they had chosen reeaaally boring picture books with teeerrible illustrations! After waiting for a while, I chose two of my favourite books and went to them.
I handed them the two books I had chosen and whispered:
“You should read these tooo”
Then the grandmother looked at me with pleasure and said: “Thank you very much”.
Her granddaughter (her name was Güneş) was a member of the library, but her family had moved to a new house and they found the books at home. They came to the library to relax a little.
I chatted with them for a while and left them.
I hope they liked the books. I am putting the pictures of those two books below. (I wish I can put a picture of the library but I am too lazy to take photos 🙂
(Click, Clack, Moo, Cows That Type – Doreen Cronin)
I love this book. It makes me laugh every time 🙂
“But Farmer Brown’s problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes!”
(Little Tree, Loren Long)
İt’s a very soft story. It is a book about the need to say goodbye to some things as the winds of life breeze by to develop and grow.
Şevval Baştan, 02.08.2024
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