Bookshelf: Paloma Sanchez, Jewelry Designer

If you only ever read one book about jewelry, make it ... Gems & Gemology, the journal of Gemological Institute of America.

The book on my shelf with the most sentimental value is my father ’s love letters to my mum before they married. He published them when my mother died and gave each one of his children one book. There are more than 500 letters – one per day!

The last book I read was I, Claudius by Robert Graves.

The last book I bought was Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.

The book that I pretend to have read is The Divine Comedy by Dante.

The bookshelf in Beijing I would like a peek at is my friend Miguel’s. He has the biggest library.

Bathroom reading? Of course!

What’s my subway reading? I never take the subway.

Book you hid before we came around? If I hid it before you came, I am not going to tell you which one it was!

My favorite book from childhood was White Fang by Jack London. I won it for being the first in my class when I was eight years old. Also, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I still read it from time to time.

The book I’m saving for old age is the Bible.

The book that changed my life is my family book, when I added my son to it!

The fictional character that I’d like to meet would be the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. We have so much in common!

The fictional character I’ve had a crush on is Colin, in L’Ecume des Jours by Boris Vian. The sweetest character ever! That’s also the book that I wish I had written.

The book with the best beginning is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind.

The book with the best ending is any one that requires you to read Part II.

The fictional “world” that I would most like to be part of? I’d like to live in Mount Olympus with the gods, as depicted in Homer’s Odyssey.

The book that surprised me the most was Le Traité sur la tolérance (Treatise on Tolerance) by Voltaire.

Book you wish you hadn't read? I don’t know. If I don’t like a book from the beginning, I don’t read it.

If I could choose one book to be adapted into a film, it would be The Golden Fleece by Robert Graves.

The book that I brought with me on my latest travels was Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarden.

A good book to read during airplane turbulence? Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.

Have you ever judged a book by its cover? Never

My favorite line from a book is: “Ladran, luego cabalgamos” from Don Quixote. It means: “They bark – that means we are moving.”

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