Reading culture in Germany

Very happy to witness Reading culture in Germany when reading habits of people is on the decline.
Here is the experience through my pen.

I couldn’t stop myself noticing the fact that half of the people in my train compartment were actually reading books... 

This was my first glimpse of reading culture in Germany. On the way from Aachen to Cologne while I was busy looking outside the window, people were actually reading. I just remembered that there was a time I used to read while traveling by bus, train...

I confess ...with the onset of ever-evolving internet technology, I am reading less

Deutschland looked different on books front though and actually motivated me to once again immerse myself in the world of books...I glanced through some of the books in the hands of the people who were reading. Mostly the titles were German...! Mother tongue is absolutely valued over there.

The next day we were in Dusseldorf and there was a book exhibition (or book market?) near the canal. I was looking forward to buying some books for my daughter. But to my dismay...no books for kids in English...! 

Few stalls also had age-old books available, we were glad to look through them.

Strolling through the book fair, we realized there is very little for us as most of the books were Deutsche...

At Dusseldorf train station, we entered ‘Press and Books’. This is a chain of bookstores all over Germany just like ‘Crosswords’. Few English titles were available, but I realized Amazon is the best place to buy books here in Europe...

Anyway, I received a solid proofs of strong reading culture in Germany!


There is a unique pleasure in getting a new book in hand as we get heavenly fragrance...

No other perfume can match that smell...

At last, few good quotes on reading which I found on Google..probably it may help someone(like me) to stay focused on reading...

-I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book ...

-Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing...

-Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live...

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This world is full of creative and artistic people..! We could witness that in our recent trip to Germany...

Along the cost of Rhine, in Dusseldorf, two people were forming giant bubbles using different kinds of ropes. The kids were just going crazy after those bubbles. Voluntarily, people could pay them for their efforts to entertain kids...Check out the bubble fun video

In the premises of Cathedral in Cologne, an artist was engaged in drawing street art. Drawing a street art is source of bread and butter of many people in Europe though they have to go through many hardships to earn. Recently I read an excellent book ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ written by George Orwell. If one has to know what it really means to live in Poverty, this book is a must. I could feel a reference of lives of street artists from the book looking at the street artist.

I don’t have authority to say anything on Art as my understanding is very limited on that front. But I feel art has two faces in this world.

On one face, art is sold for millions of dollars in big art galleries...

While on the other face, the art is sold for a penny or two on the streets...

New artistic creation is priceless!!