The magic of a book goes beyond the promise of evasion offered by its pages, because a book is that promise, but it is also the call to life that is possible despite everything.
This April 23, Book day, is a reason for congratulating for those who love an invention that comes from ancient times and that revolutionized the world with the printing press by putting culture available to everyone there through the fifteenth century, when opening a copy made the music of the miracle that sings “you are not alone.” This melody resonates the same today, thousands of years later.
The permanence of the printed book and the grateful fashion of reading that prevails in 2025, when reading statistics have multiplied until they are a trend in social networks and read is now a reason for greater personal attraction, as stressed in marketing publications.
The quality of reading and the literary jokes already populate the humor of the memes that share in their publications that legion of readers who were silent but now do not hide and presume to isolate themselves from the world or participate in it reading.
This is a flower whose seed is permanently irrigated in the Canary Islands and especially in the palm.
On the beautiful island, reading is not just a pleasure, but it is also writing and, above all, meeting writers and writers around the world and all literary genres in their multiple literary festivals.
Only in La Palma you can spend a whole year enjoying the poetry of the 21st century with the festival appoint volcano, which is held in May, before the summer, with a refreshing program that includes the most renovating proposals of lovers of the verse born in the light of those desire to take out the rhymes from the conventional framework. His books are authentic survival manuals and testimony of that unique poetry company to cross the heart as a ray.
The Hispanic American Writers Festival is an unavoidable appointment of September for lovers of shores literature; from the banks of Spain and Europe, especially the edge of the Canary Islands, and on the banks of that America that does not give up. The books presented by this festival are bathed by the oceans of the time of El Caribe, of the Atlantic or by those of the Pacific, with authors and authors who remain and rise teaching all the indomitable, elegant and serene spirit of these lands of their spirit, referring to the reading that focuses the look and becomes universal.
In La Palma there is also space for crime and the black and police novel, of course. Winter is generous with the beautiful island and there is nothing better than locking up with a good book under a blanket when the rain asks the slopes of its peaks of beautiful views. Everything is slowly cooked when it comes to the mysteries of the human being and its passions. All of them come to light with the books of this most thug festival in which writers and writers meet who seek to understand the loser, whom he murders, to his ambition and his pains. In addition, this meeting offers a unique window to the African black novel with Spanish translation.
There is also space for children’s and youth books very close to spring, as it has to be, with Festilij and, in autumn, in the heat of the beautiful sunsets that the island gives to its inhabitants and visitors, with the Bolborta Illustration Festival.
The four stations are full of books and literature in La Palma, so it is not surprising that these literary meetings meet and inspire new writers and writers who grow and reproduce in the palm and even attract to change residence to live on the island authors of other regions and nationalities.
April and the day of the book are thus, promise and beat of that miracle of centuries that, like radio, resurfaces again and again of their ashes thanks to the unique character of readers and readers who do not give up and gather whenever they open a book because, how many people will be reading a book right now? Every time a page is passed that melody. “You are not alone,” he whispers, “and at this moment you don’t have to be perfect or like anyone but yourself.
Happy Book Day.
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