Books are a company, especially in these days when you have to stay home in order not to feed the transmission of Covid-19. So let's give space to themed readings, non-fiction, but also escape stories. We share the chosen readings on social media to feel less alone. So let's try to read a good book by an Italian author.
Takeaway books
To think that 2020 has opened with dozens and dozens of Italian bookstores forced to announce their closure. Instead, in these difficult days of quarantine, publishing and the book market are also suffering. Booksellers are put to the test. Here, then, is that a thought-out service is born in Italy to support independent libraries. Takeaway bookstores are born. A way to work in this period through a book delivery service to its customers without transport costs. It is about a totally free delivery service for the bookshop and for the customer. In fact, it is financially supported by the publishers through a fundraiser. Certainly it is a guaranteed service until the funds raised are exhausted. The support of the publishers currently allows booksellers to maintain relations with their readers until the emergency is over.
A journey to get to know each other
We have to stay at home so why not travel with the mind? Among the most interesting Italian writers of our time we find Claudio Magris. We speak of one of the greatest contemporary Italian authors. It certainly cannot be missing from our home library The infinite travel. In this work Magris talks about how there are places that fascinate us because they appear radically different from those familiar to us. Others instead enchant us for their familiarity. Knowing is often like recognizing. The known and the familiar, we continually rediscover them in our travels, enriching ourselves. While the most fascinating journey is always the return. As inOdyssey, Magris reflects on the meaning of travel. In fact, it suggests the journey understood as the very existence of the person.
The author's journey is a utopian and existential journey. The author finally establishes an introspective dialogue, reflecting on the experiences of life. According to Magris, experience leads to personal knowledge. Likewise, in his book, places, people, cultures become his inner geography.
Books are also a journey for children
For the little ones there is the book Like my home. A book suitable for 8 years of age that talks about how houses have evolved over time and compares them. Children can play with the flaps to be lifted, so the book shows the exterior and interior of the various buildings. Thanks to this animated text, children visit a Paleolithic hut or a house in the land of Çatal Hüyük. In the same way it is possible to cross the threshold of a rich Roman domus in Pompeii. And again, it is possible to get to know some of the most famous architects in history. The little ones can discover the way of conceiving the houses and projects of these great architects and their works.
Similarly, children are proposed to play with graph paper and pencil to draw a house. In fact, the book is full of clear and detailed illustrations, boxes with curiosities and simple activities. Everything serves to stimulate the little readers to compare the houses they encounter with their own way of living the home.
# Italian in the heart
