Last Saturday we went to the library.
I haven't been in a library since I left the
Netherlands, more than 30 years ago.
When I was young, I went to the library a couple
of times a week. I loved it!
But then I came to Luxembourg and the chance
of finding books in Dutch or English was close to
zero, so I started buying books in the Netherlands
when we visited my family.
when we visited my family.
After a couple of years I became fluent in
German (my husband and I speak German
together, even after all these years), I discovered
Amazon.de and started reading books in German.
The kids have a school library and they bring
home a couple of books every now and then,
but they just don't like to read (although my
daughter loves audiobooks and most of the
books in my Audible library are hers).
A couple of months ago I bought this book
for my daughter, who likes to draw,
about drawing Manga.
for my daughter, who likes to draw,
about drawing Manga.
We saw a Manga movie or two, before she
discovered comic Manga books.
From that moment on she started downloading
them on my Kindle. She just couldn't stop reading.
Every day she asked me if she could do some
chores for me and have another book.
I was so happy that she had finally found
something she liked to read that I didn't mind.
These books are not very expensive (4€),
but if you buy five, you have spend 20€, and
they are very fast reads.
So, that's where the library comes in!
We started going to the Cité Bibliothèque in
Luxembourg-city on Saturday mornings
and I am thrilled. We took three library cards,
which means we can take 12 books,
6 audiobooks and 6 movies every time.
I have so missed this all these years!
PS: Did you know these books are read from
right to left? You start on the last page and read
the bubbles also from the right corner of the
page to the left corner.