For a couple of years now, I always set myself a reading challenge for the upcoming year. This started thanks to the amazing Goodreads. However, I’ve never reached my goal of books to read in a year. There are plenty of reasons for this – spending too much time outside, always having a movie/series to watch, being too tired to read and not fall asleep and always [!!!!] the goddamn addiction to scrolling on social networks – which I’m avidly trying to fight! So, hopefully 2019 will be the year I rock my reading challenge. My goal for the year is fifteen books. Let’s see how it goes.

Besides this, I wanted to mention a piece of work that I’ll never forget.

The last book I read in 2018 was finished on December 30th. It was Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. This is a short story about Gregor, a young adult who once wakes up to his transformation into a cockroach. The short story is considered a classic for many, so you’ve probably read it or heard about it. The beauty behind this novel is that I feel it shows what happens on a daily basis when the people we love/deal with tend to change their attitudes into something we dislike or don’t understand. We tend to put them aside instead of trying to acknowledge why it happened and how we can deal with it or even revert it.

My advice is we all should read this book with a very critical view of our actions towards others.

Love,

Ana Teresa