The Book Lover

I have always been an avid reader of numerous kinds of books; I grew up surrounded by shelves of books just waiting to be read. My Mom started reading to me when I didn't even know there was an alphabet. I liked listening to her voice, at the same time watching how her mouth and lips moved. When I started going to school at the University of Negros Occidental - Recoletos (UNO-R), I was introduced to vowels and consonants and an entire planet of vocabulary.

It didn't take long for me to pick up on how my Mom was doing this wonderful thing called reading. Soon, I was holding a book on my own. By my sixth grade I had finished reading all the books in my own home. At school, I'd spend countless hours in the library hungrily devouring all the books it had to offer. I was looking forward to a whole new world of books that could be found in the High School Department Section when I graduated from sixth grade. The High School Department Section didn't disappoint me.

In all my three years in that high school, I must have spent every lunch hour in the library, sneaking food and sometimes, the rare "yakult" for its small size into the vast premises of the library. The university boasted that it was the biggest library structure in all of Negros Occidental. I was humbled by the presence of such a diverse selection of reading material.

During High School, I came to recognize the various areas in literature that didn't interest me before. I started reading mystery and crime, romance, science fiction and fantasy, thrillers and even poetry. My love for the suspenseful and the mysterious blossomed and I was hooked. When I was in the Grade School, I only had access to the likes of Nancy Drew. But when I came to the High School Section, I didn't know which to start with. There was John Grisham and James Patterson, and maybe a few Dean Koontz novels. There was also a non-fiction area of course, and a small periodical section were I grew to like Reader's Digest and the National Geographic Magazine.

In my college years, I spent less and less time at the library; what with all my school work. I had taken up a study in Computer Science. Of course, I found an alternative way to enjoy my love for reading while at the same time being a student techie at a University. I discovered e-books. My laptop would hold up to 10GB size of data with PDF's. And I would even convert the PDF's into text files and then to .jar files so I could read them with my mobile phone, since I could not find an e-reader that is compatible with my phone. Soon I had more e-books than I can handle or rather, read.

This blog will let me share my myriad books with those of you who share my love for reading. Enjoy!