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RE: A book that changed my life? My post for the @bananafish question.
Congrats on the curie vote, @adncabrera. More than deserved.
This is a delightful and inspirational journey through the magical pages of books, but more importantly, the transformational power of storytelling, especially oral storytelling, so passionately fomented by our parents and grandparents.
I think that the absence of that in this generation of families, more than the actual alienating power of technology, which incidentally has also the power to encourage reading in more efficient and prolific ways than we had, would be the greatest deterrent of good reading.
Your reading history is in itself a beautiful story about what stories can do for people and the need to keep that storytelling spirit alive.
As always, dear @hlezama, your comment is a valuable contribution to the topic. We agree, the chain of oral narrations is a great motivator of reading and writing. Whoever tries the good fiction, the graceful forms of a good oral naration, soon looks for more!
I believe that people, regardless of technological means, will seek to read, and will seek to read fictions, because it is a fundamental part of our existence. Humans live among stories. We can't help it.
A big hug.