![]() ![]() ![]() Reading, at the time, didn’t come naturally to me. What’s more, I’d only learned to speak English in the past year or so. Most days I’d accompany my mom to her work at a doctor’s office downtown, where I had to find ways to keep myself busy (usually by making banners for the office birthday parties). I was being homeschooled for a couple of months at the time, recovering from a hip surgery. Matilda was not just an ordinary little girl and I guess neither was I. This book – that I’ve reread so much the cover is peeling, that’s never been far from my desk, that I love so much I’ve thought about naming a future daughter after it – feels like it just fell into my life on the day I needed it most. I don’t remember buying it, or borrowing it from my cousin (a voracious reader) or from my school library. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know where it came from. I was six when I somehow got my hands on a copy of Roald Dahl’s Matilda. Here, she has taken the time to tell Novelicious what Roald Dahl book helped her overcome her difficulties with reading, and inspired her love of writing. Natalia's first book, Chasing The Sun, was released this month. This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]()
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