If I love reading, it’s Because my mother put all her effort to instill in me The habit of reading From an early age. Both she and my father have always been tireless readers, frikis As a manual, and they have ensured to expose my sister to as much culture as possible.
From weekends in bookstores, to the storyteller in the library, little by little the reading became my personal refuge. And now I love to share it, whenever I can, with my mother.
We both keep reading, and share readings whenever we can. She recommends her favorites, mine, and comment. It is a special moment, and that is why, on the occasion of Mother’s Day, I wanted to remember The readings that we have enjoyed together together. Women of all ages like, so, if you are looking for the perfect gift for this Sunday, I guarantee that with any of these you will enjoy a lot.
‘The name of the wind’ by Patrick Routhfuss
This book could not be missing in the list for a simple reason: it is the first book that we share my mother and I were not stories. For me, as for many other people in my generation, The name of the wind It was the jump from youth literature to something a little more adult. And my mother, as in many other adventures, He accompanied me in this step.
I read it in a summer of my adolescence, and as soon as I finished it I passed it to her. He is not very fan of fantastic literature, but he finished it in a week, and since then we usually comment. Patrick Routhfuss has an exquisite penand although I have lost the hope that the trilogy ends, the two books that for now make it very worth it.
With a charismatic protagonist and somewhat Charlatán, an epic adventure from childhood tells us Even adulthood in a world in which words have magic. In ours they also have them, because the words of this book united my mother and my mother.
‘Nita’s mysterious guest’
It has been one of our last readingsand I have even recommended it on another occasion for our magazine. It is an excellent book, my mother has already loved. We are fans of the mysteries, we have seen all the films of Agatha Christie and until the 1989 series: we have swallowed almost all the chapters.
And that’s why when I read The mysterious guestI knew I was going to love it. I lent them as soon as I finished it, and I did not fail in the recommendation. He confessed that, for now, he is his favorite of what he has read in 2025.
The novel presents us to a very particular protagonistand jumping from the past to the present, invites us to solve a somewhat peculiar crime. A famous writer goes to the hotel where our intrepid protagonist works to make an important ad, but someone ends his life with a cup of tea. The mystery that hides after his death will make many others come to light.
‘Stephen King’s fugitive’
If there is something that my mother and I have in common is that we love reading in summer. As soon as the heat begins and the holidays approach, we visit a bookstore in search of short books, easy to read and Let us hook us To enjoy them on the beach. I remember with special affection this that we both devour. And of course, being the great master of terror.
It is one of Stephen King’s first novels, he published it in 1982 with one of his pseudonyms, Richard Bachman, but I assure you that has aged very well. The protagonist lives in a dystopian world in which participating in competitions is the only way to make a good life. When his daughter gets sick, she intends to participate in the most dangerous of everything, one in which she becomes the objective of the whole country.
The rhythm is intense, The protagonist has a rather gray moraland certainly leaves you with your mouth open at the end. Both my mother and I ended up in just one week, and we had to return to the bookstore for more summer novels.
‘The snow girl’ by Javier Castillo
With this book my mother and I have a curious story. And it turns out that we read it in parallel without knowing it. When I went to recommend, after having finished the second part, The Soul Game We laughed a lot. To that point we agree on readings.
The title has to sound to you, because Netflix adaptation has been a success. In fact, This year the second season has been released. The story follows Miren Triggs, a journalist who solves, in each of the books, a different mystery while fighting with his own ghosts.
If you’ve seen the series, You can also read the novel. They are slightly different, because, in fact, in the novels we are in the United States, while Netflix production was filmed in Spain.
For now my mother and I have only read the first two novels of the trilogy. But we have the last one to devour it as soon as we end our current readings.
‘The old siren’ by José Luis Sampedro
Finally, I couldn’t stop mentioning what is, according to my mother, His favorite book of all time. Although I must confess, very embarrassed, which is still on my slope shelf. But honestly, I trust my mother’s literary taste, and if she says she is the best novel of all time, it is.
It also has its author, José Luis Sampedro, one of the greatest writers and humanists in our country, winner of the National Prize for Spanish Letters, among others. Is a historic novel categoryof those that it is recommended to enjoy calmly, but that you end up without realizing it.
The old mermaid It moves us to Egypt, In the third century, a time of changes and much confusion in which two great empires, the Persian and the Roman, initiate a slow decline. The protagonist of the story travels to Alexandria to meet two men who will mark his destiny: Ahram the navigator, a man of action, thirsty for power, and the philosopher Krito, possessor of the gift of the word. If my mother recommends it, you can trust, it is worth enjoying it.
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