Nhora Gómez-Saxon 

Originally published December 19, 2016

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1. What are you reading now? 
I am currently reading My America, a collection of our students' memories published in April 2016. I love this book because it depicts an important segment of our community in CMS, Charlotte and North Carolina through the eyes of our youth. I love it because it is my first book.

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2. What are you reading next? 
I want to read the lyrics of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan and learn about the new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.

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3. What's your favorite book of all time? 
I couldn't decide on only one book. There are three authors that I've admired since my childhood: Ernest Hemingway, Lin Yutang and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If I have to call out some of their works in particular, I would say For Whom the Bell Tolls, Moment in Peking and Love in the Time of Cholera.

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4. What's your favorite time and place to read? 
One of my favorite things about being a teacher is that I can read all night and sleep in during the summer break. I love romantic historical stories and biographies. Reading allows me to travel to places and times I have never been and become people I would never be or meet.

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5. Where do you get your books? 
I am old-fashioned. I love the smell of books, the texture of the pages on my fingers, the power of the words in ink. I buy books in bookstores, especially when I travel, and keep them forever.

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