Reading Books Reading is perhaps the hobby that appeal me the most. I have other hobbies, such as computer games and biking, but I much prefer to read a novel or a scientific book. I really don't know what I would do if I didn't have any book in my desk. When I was a child, there was a medium-size bookshelf in my house's living room in which I could find several intersting books that I used to read. Somehow, in the university, I didn't uphold the reading habit. Maybe I was too busy to care about it, but still I missed the enjoyment of reading. Later on, when I started to work, I longed to read novels because I had plenty of time in the afternoons and I needed something to kill time. I remember that I went downtown, which is the right place to find cheap and unfindable books, and bought the first ones. I started with local writers, like Mario Vargas Llosa or Julio Ramon Ribeyro; and then, I moved to international writers, like William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Fedor Dostoviestky, to name a few. Personally, I found very appealing the style of the chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, whose best book by far is "2666", an extensive but enjoyable novel. Yet I didn't buy a bookshelf for my books because I'm living temporarily in a place so it's not a good idea to carry my books everywhere. In the meanwhile, I left my books in my mom's, sealed in several big boxes that I expect to open sooner or later.