The reluctant fundamentalist — Another way of traveling
As it can be understood by the title of this blog, or even by what I wrote so far, I love to travel, but I don’t need — or am able to — do it 365 days of the year — well, while I have the main part of my life on the corporate world I can’t even travel more than 30 days a year, or if you’re reading this at the beginning of 2021, I cant travel at all.
However, another one of my passions can, somehow, bring us to different places of the world. I love to read, and that helps me to travel in my mind.
Something that I never did was to write book reviews, I’ve read thousands of books, and normally if someone asks me an opinion, I can only say that I either loved it or hated it, but, I’ll try to share here a few of the books that I’ve read, or I’m reading, and that are some of those that show another place in the world, or another place in time, because, never forget that history is part of my DNA.
This year I’ve been reading a lot again — this is something that goes up and down with me, there are years where I read at least a book a week, and then there are others when I’m lucky if I read one, although I can go to some extremes and as an example in the summer of 2019 (in which I didn’t travel in my summer vacations) I was able to read 17 books in 2 weeks -and a couple of weeks ago, I’ve read a book that…
