When reading the post "The Dutch Reading Culture" for Hive Book Club I knew that finding a solution to the issues with Miss Time was urgent. A week passed and my promise to read (well, I read the post that day, but needed a second reading to respond to it) and comment seemed never to come. Last week I had days when worked from morning to evening, and it didn't happen just once. It became the pace of my lifestyle for a while already. Luckily, this weekend a one-way ticket to the other side of the world was purchased for the aforementioned lady, so she could go on a long vacation with Mister Deadline. We hoped the couple could enjoy as long as possible and never think of coming back. In case they had homesickness, Miss Time and Mister Deadline would need to swim back to Europe... and I even had an image of the ocean full of sharks... but let's not enter into details.
Time was made but the people from this little corner jumped into some unexpected but inspired works regarding some possible improvements that made two days disappear lol. {spoiler-free announcement}
Reading posts and commenting on them was shelved once again, but it's time to bring the topic of books into the writing corner. Let's bring a comment to @edje's post in the form of a new post, let's convert it into a StV contribution! For that, we have to visit a reading corner first. A library, the section for children.
This is not the common setup in that part of the library. Usually, the chairs are not placed in this way as we see, in rows, but around the tables where children can read the books or do their homework as it happens many times. The smaller ones come with schoolmates and parents that can assist if they need some help. Older students also go (but to the section for adults) with friends and work together around school projects, homework or simply study there. But there is one condition that the librarian asks from the youngsters. Silence!
Well, I broke that rule. I broke the no-noise rule where it was supposed to be just silence. No talk, no whispers even. Music? You must be crazy to think about playing music in a library... But music came and piano was heard.
I know why it is important to keep quiet while someone is working or studying or reading a book. You need concentration and no distractions to merge yourself into a story or any other reading material. Many books were consumed and digested by my eyes and mind when I went to live alone during high school and university. Later, the second big reading wave hit my soul when I came to Spain. I subscribed to the local library and was able to read two or three books every week in Spanish, to learn the language. It was much more fun than going to lessons, and I could read books in the library, at home in the evenings or when chilling on the beach or by the pool. I also connected with more people, on a personal and professional level. Somehow I got myself playing the piano at events and concerts and also for this little event in the library.
The "Norwegian-Spanish days" were celebrated in our town. Actually, they celebrate this combo every year with different activities, which include gastronomy, art, music, conferences etc, all related to Norway and Spain and their culture and traditions. For that reason, my performance contained piano pieces written by two composers of these nationalities. I chose to play a selection of pieces from Spanish composer Enrique Granados - Spanish Dances. To cover the other part, my fingers executed one of the most famous classical pieces coming from that North European country. The suite Peer Gynt. You all probably heard about the composer, so I could skip mentioning it maybe? Anyway, I will let you know that it was Edvard Grieg who wrote it.
The concert went well, and although there were just between twenty and thirty people, they behaved well. The audience listened with attention, and rewarded me with applause but... there is always one but hahaha. I played the beginning of one quiet piece (Oriental by Granados) and one lady I think had a sore throat... she started to search in her purse for candy or something to calm her throat down. Seems she found the desired thing and I heard opening the wrapping paper!!! I turned my head toward the audience and I think my face showed a "killing with a single gaze" expression. But it was just for a moment, I continued to play without interruptions.
I must mention with a lot of pride that Fred Flinstone also visited that event. I can just hope he liked the piano music that evening as we didn't really talk after the concert. Though thinking it better, maybe it was just the librarian, in a Fred costume. He kept silent so I don't know.
All in all, it was a nice experience in a child-friendly environment and literally being surrounded by books. And you see the little tables and chairs in the corner, for the smallest ones? It is so important when the little ones learn to spend time with books, to listen to the stories while they are at an early age and slowly get the habit of reading the books, of course, books intended for their age.
A good reading habit doesn't depend just on the place where you live, although it can enhance the activity. Having those places where you can pick a book for free, as Edje showed in his post are great. I loved seeing that boat on the street, the telephone booth filled with books, also the bookcase areas and rooms in the Hotel Not Hotel(s). I see here in Spain similar places where we can pick a book for free and leave another one we already read. That is how Dorian Gray came to my home recently but the thing is that the couple from the beginning of this post arrived back. Now they again hold me under a pressured schedule, so Mister Wilde is sleeping a long siesta.
What a beautiful experience in spite of the lady who had a sore throat, it always happens that when silence is needed something happens. That thing about the look that kills, sounds familiar.
Beautiful photos and why not break the rules from time to time.
Thanks @mipiano!❤️
Many things can happen at concerts. The thing I most dislike is if a mobile phone rings, but slowly people get used to putting it on silent. I remember once a big curtain fell while we had a concert with students, luckily the little girl just continued playing. 😅
It bothers even me, I always have my mobile on silent, it just vibrates. It's true what you say... it takes my mind off things.
Good evening @mipiano ✨
I don't even know how my phone sounds lol. It's always on silent ;)
We are exactly the same 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me too! I get even more startled if it rings.
Miss time and mister deadline drive all we crazy all the time 😂😂 running like ants but find out how get even one hour for read it is very important, when I was younger used to read much more than I do know and it was a very safe place where I used to go to scape from the world to let my imagination fly and learn new things.
The portrait of Dorian Gray is one of the books I have liked the most , not only because I love the writing of Oscar Wilde but because all the philosophy about the painting and the beauty in the time, when I was 18 I make myself a painting (self-portrait) to ask the painting get old instead of me, but the magic never work on me 😂😂 I'm still getting old 😂👴
You see, they are just like that. They are annoying us without any valid reason. That's why they got the one-way ticket to somewhere far away, but they already came back! The semana laboral stated again 😁
I also read The Picture of Dorian Gray when I was young. I think it is now late for me to read it again hahaha 🤣
Hahahaha 😂😂😂
Det eneste jeg vil ha er en autograf, Miss Mipiano. Så elegant du gikk for å spille i det biblioteket, det er slik pianister er. Estoy segura que todos disfrutaron tu ejecución; yo no hubiese podido asistir con esta tos. Nada me alivia.
:)
mipiano
;D
La tos :(
Sí que podrías asistir. En caso de tos, yo tocaría más fuerte y todo arreglado. Solamente no empieces a buscar caramelitos en tu bolso 😂
Thank you... Por el autógrafo :D
Na, mejor esperamos que se quite la tos y estar bien recuperada para ir al próximo concierto.
Yo odio ese sonido también 😂 ... Cualquier sonido de nylon o envoltorio me molesta y más cuando hay silencio total.
You are welcome :))
Vale, entonces para el próximo concierto ya estar sin tos ;)
Oh, that's a pretty cool experience playing in there for the people to enjoy. I think I will be inspired more to read books if there is a live sound from a piano, piano is one of my favorite instrument that really bring me more into focus while doing my things ❤️🔥
I also like music while reading or writing, to focus, but it has to be music without lyrics. For reading chilling vibes. For writing, I need the opposite, so no piano music for me in those cases. Piano music ust when I play and work hehe, so the whole day 😂🎶🎶
good to see you have broken the rules and brought life to a stuffy library, and yes Fred looks very happy too
Напишете най-добрия цитат за рожден ден, започнете от тук
Fred looked happy all the time. I think he read a lot of nice books 😇🎶
😂
Dear friend @mipiano, i would have loved to have been at that concert and see her play live...a hug and all my respect and admiration!!!!
💚🙏🎼🎵🎶
Thank you @rumbapoet for your kind words and for the hug. In the same way, it would be a great experience to listen to you 😇🎶 You are a creative and excellent musician! 🤗
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I wish there was a place to go and pick up a book and just read. It would be nice and I would definitely pay the price.
But I only had that luxury in my hometown. Over here, I'm not sure reading is encouraged because I haven't seen anything of such.
All they have are restaurants and hotels and nothing more.
I am glad you had fun playing in an atmosphere that would have said, suuhhh 🤫 under normal circumstances. And that you did well.
Well done, ma'am.
I hope you can find again a place where you can calmly read a book. Maybe even while some piano music is played there hehehe, so the librarian could shush the musicians many times 😂
Hahaha 😂
I hope so too ... Hehehehe
Thank you