Saturday, May 10, 2025, 11:50
“The books are the plane, the train, and the road. They are the destination and the trip. “We found a corner in Salamanca where reading goes beyond spending pages, to immerse yourself in stories. A different reading method, reading club.
This group of salamanca, because yes, from women mainly, goes every two weeks to the shell house library to share the book reading on hand.
Paris, this is the name of the group, about twenty different women joined the same passion: reading. They meet on Wednesday, on Wednesday, no, in one of the library sauces that want to share their impressions about a book chosen precisely at the end of the previous year.
At 12:00 am, they start to appear through the door, with enthusiasm and a desire to speak. They share views on “Exit from the Chapter” by Marina Garcés “, which is somewhat thick” Comment “some seat.
“I was trying to come to this club for several years, and this year, although I was on the waiting list, I managed to join,” others say enthusiastically. “The reference to the reading club was one of the things that I had in my list when I retired,” says one of the attendees.
Wanted very much
It is a group that may look at first glance homogeneous, but it is completely different from each other. Various professions, even places. But they were going to appoint them for 3 years, “I do not lack unless it was a very justified crime,” says one of them.
It is one of the most required activities in the wide catalog presented by the library. The group’s managers have told us that people who want to register “should be fast and be very interested in registration dates, because there are many people who stay abroad, they are very wanted, even, people who have already coming for many years in the waiting list.”
What started as a single group, was granted to its high request, it became moderate by the library and five running the self that gives the library the space to fulfill it. In addition, they also have a wide loan service for different reading clubs for associations that want to request this.
Reading for everyone
For years, in cooperation with entities such as Download Salamanca or Asprodes, easy reading clubs are developed. These air -conditioned sessions are designed for people with reading or cognitive difficulties, providing accessible texts and friendly environments where everyone has a place to express themselves. Meetings also take place every two weeks and assume more than just a cultural activity: it is a tool for integration, self -formation and social participation.
In times of screens and algorithms, reading clubs in the shell house claim, active listening and enjoying the book as an object and an excuse for the meeting. Because when sharing the story, it is converted. Thanks to this corner of stone and messages, Salamanca continues to prove that reading is not just an individual habit, but rather a means of making society.
