{"id":9829,"date":"2020-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edec.ge\/poet-and-literature-expert-giorgi-kekelidze-spoke-online-about-books-useful-and-best-decision\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:00:00","slug":"poet-and-literature-expert-giorgi-kekelidze-spoke-online-about-books-useful-and-best-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edec.ge\/en\/poet-and-literature-expert-giorgi-kekelidze-spoke-online-about-books-useful-and-best-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet and literature expert Giorgi Kekelidze spoke online about \u201cBooks \u2013 Useful and Best Decision\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the world, we live, there is an abundance
\nof space but a lack of time; there is news from around the world every minute,
\neven every second …\u201d<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

For those staying at home, the Education
\nDevelopment and Employment Center continues to organize important and appealing
\nevents online.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

On the 8th of April, the event \u201cBooks \u2013 Useful and
\nBest Decision\u201d was streamed on \u201cFuture Generation\u2019s\u201d Facebook page. Giorgi
\nKekelidze, everyone\u2019s favorite Georgian poet, prose writer, essayist, lecturer
\nand TV presenter, as well as General Director of the National Parliamentary
\nLibrary of Georgia, laureate of the \u201cSaba\u201d and \u201cTsinandali\u201d awards, founder and
\nchief editor of the online library lib.ge, and last but not least found of the
\neducational movement #Equilibrium (#<\/span>\u10d4\u10d9\u10d5\u10d8\u10da\u10d8\u10d1\u10e0\u10d8\u10e3\u10db\u10d8<\/span>),
\nhosted the session and was glad to satisfy the young peoples\u2019 curiosity.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLearning to love a book is impossible. We
\nmust love a book by heart,\u201d so the author. Giorgi suggested all listeners  readjust any kind of book as we can always find there our own stories and lives:
\n\u201cThe greatest books are the easiest and most human ones with people in the
\ncenter of the story. Reading books will not make us a better person; reading books
\nwill make us a more interesting person. The more books we read, the more human we
\nbecome. Let\u2019s read books and we will be able to find ourselves.\u201d<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

During a severe worldwide pandemic like this
\none, Giorgi emphasized to read such works where faith is the key to winning,
\nand where physically small creatures \u2013 just like us \u2013 can withstand great
\nhardships.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

His top three reading recommendations to
\nmanage the crisis:<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n