When I was studying English conversation in an English language institutes last year, I thought it was a stupid question,” What is your favorite book?” or “ Have you read any good books lately?”
I was studying there with textbooks which have topics about family, hobby, education, politics and environment, and so on. Those topics were not easy to say, because my interests couldn’t follow them always. In fact, I was (and am) indifferent to politics, but many foreigners were interested in politics especially the reunification of our country. At that time, I had to have tests sometimes, so I had to prepare my own answers about those topics. To tell you the truth, it is difficult to express my own opinion in Korean about those topics, much less IN ENGLISH!(하물며..이렇게 표현하면 되나요?)
The worst topic was about education to me. I was dissatisfied at our education system…I didn’t have any good plan about it.
Anyway, I thought the conversation about those topics were not normal. And I thought I was so silly.
Yesterday, I began to read “Bridget Jones’s diary’ again, because I didn’t finish it yet.
I found the silly topic about book when Bridget met Mark at first. It is true they use the question to break the ice. I could imagine the awkward atmosphere when two singles met first. They didn’t know each other, so they had to try to find something common.
It is very hot today, and it is a very good season to read books.
Well……Hey guys….
“ Have you read any good books recently??”