Read books by Jorge Luis Borges and Mario Vargas LLosa in Spanish

...in one of those books for students of Spanish. But that doesn’t really count. It’s just a couple of pages story. And it had a lot of unknown words, so all the notes explaining the meanings were extremely helpful.
There’s some more of building of my vocabulary left to do.
But… I feel close.

since my Spanish teacher said after my oral exam that regarding the sequence of tenses I managed to get almost every tense wrong. Good thing is that she also said that at this level the more important thing is that I could completely understand her and what I was saying was quite understandable too (despite the errors with tenses).
And last week I even peeked at the shelf with Borges’ books when I dropped by the Spanish library. But I didn’t dare to open any of them. I didn’t want to discourage myself in case that the sentences would appear to me too complicated or maybe even the worse case; what if it seemed readable and I try reading it with yet my insufficient knowledge of Spanish and thus miss a lot?
Yeah, I’ll be patient and wait.

regarding the well known authors I read only some simplified versions of books by Cervantes in Spanish (Don Quixote, Gitanilla and one more that I can’t remember now) and I enjoyed it far more than reading the usual simplified literature i.e. crime novels (and really lousy ones, but than the point is to learn the language, it would be too much to ask to enjoy the story as well).
Borges and Llosa will have to wait for me a tiny bit longer…

I’m deeply in love with Spanish language.
Reading Borges is something that I can do over and over again and feel deeply inspired in the process of doing it.
Llosa can write divinely simple and beautiful sentences.
What a joy that will be to be able one day to read the exact words they wrote in the language that excites me.