There’s a serious lack of bookstores over here. I wish someone would come to town and instead of opening the 30th coffee shop they would open a bookstore.
Cyprus is the country with most universities per capita and least reading per capita. I wonder what that tells us.
Oh yeah, it tells us that universities are there to satisfy strict gatekeeping rules in Cypriot society and they have pretty much nothing to do with education.
There are no public libraries here. Books in Public are mostly (if not all) in greek.
Is it counting electronic books?
Also, I spend 11 months reading through 75-page children book. In Greek. My first Greek book. Is it counting too?
The fuck is a book?
Can confirm, I am Cypriot and have never finished a book outside of school
I live in the UK for 11 years now.
One of the reasons I read books is because of public transport and vast distances. You don’t have that in Cyprus.
And no, I won’t read a book at the beach.
I love reading books and I used to be a regular at Soloneio every Saturday morning.
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There’s a serious lack of bookstores over here. I wish someone would come to town and instead of opening the 30th coffee shop they would open a bookstore.
Cyprus is the country with most universities per capita and least reading per capita. I wonder what that tells us.
Oh yeah, it tells us that universities are there to satisfy strict gatekeeping rules in Cypriot society and they have pretty much nothing to do with education.
There are no public libraries here. Books in Public are mostly (if not all) in greek.
Is it counting electronic books?
Also, I spend 11 months reading through 75-page children book. In Greek. My first Greek book. Is it counting too?
The fuck is a book?
Can confirm, I am Cypriot and have never finished a book outside of school
I live in the UK for 11 years now.
One of the reasons I read books is because of public transport and vast distances. You don’t have that in Cyprus.
And no, I won’t read a book at the beach.
I love reading books and I used to be a regular at Soloneio every Saturday morning.
My father when I was a 5-6 read to me the classics like Les Misérables, Tolstoy and others.
He never cared for football or politics ,just the arts.
I think children imitate their parents and that sets a trajectory for who and what they will be in life.
We don’t need books in Cyprus because we know everything.
Surely, everyone is missing the point, which is we should be pouring scorn on the uneducated Romanians.
I was barely managing 2-3 books a year. Now I switched to audiobooks and I am going through 50+ a year. No time to sit down and read a book.