A visit to the Book fair. 

On Thursday October 15, I attended the International Book Fair in Monterrey. It was a curious experience because I never been to a book fair so big before, when I was in Jr. high we use to have book fairs in school I remember them being smaller but yet full of different experiences, that attracted you to at least buy a book. I’m not much of reader at but every time the book fair came to our school I bought a book and read it so I think that at least in my personal experience it achieved its purpose to make non readers read and readers read more.

So Now that I attended the International Book Fair in Cintermex, it was some how the same experience as when I was in Jr. High You could see many of the big book store names like Gandhi and Porrua, but you could see more local , international and national book store too, as well as Universities stands and a symposium for greet and meets with authors and Story tellers for kids or  “cuenta cuentos” as we call them here in Mexico, I attended the Book fair on Thursday morning, So it was full of schools that made the trip to bring their students to this experience it was packed,  you could barely walk, kids running around and lifting every book they could find, however it really didn't bother me at all I could easily look around in the different stands and stores and find some interesting books and topics of my  preference.

            As I explained earlier I’m not much of a reader but nevertheless I found a book that caught my attention and bought it, it's a book that a friend suggested for me, I hope it can meet my expectations and start a little reading habit in me, I usually read biographies or autobiographies, and this is more of a fictional novel so let’s see how it goes. furthermore, it was a good experience and like in other years it achieved its purpose and made a non reader read.  

Two kinds 

Jing Mei and her mother have a difficult relationship in which a high and unrealistic expectation , got Jing Mei into a confusing life that hurt her emotionally expecting very less of herself and downgrading herself poorly into a low exceptions child. How ever during the story we see a serious of effects regarding this exceptions toward Jing Mei and her ability to play the piano, Ln 129-133 "who ask you be genius?, she shouted, Only ask you be your best. For your sake". the story intends to acknowledge this behavior for the reader to understand how the high hopes of her mother have being interpreted as being a genius as being a piano prodigy asking for more that Jing Mei could handle at the time.  By the time we see Jing Mei as and adult we perceive another type of Jing Mei  personality we see characteristics of Regret, Guilty and some what insecure, Ln 306-307 " I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectation" Now we see How Jing Mei learned with her mothers actions how she now knows what she became Realistic and self centered, On the other hand we fully comprehend a young Jing Mei and how her situation took her to her actual situation.  Jing Mei has learned how to deal with her fact with her abilities and how to exploit them regarding her own wishes, Ln. 332-334 " And After that... It made me feel proud ,as if it were a shiny trophy i had won back". We see how she treats her own mistakes and her mothers expectations toward a final goal and thrives to process her emotions.