I grew up in a family of book lovers, where shelves are commonly filled with novels from different authors and every person in the family enjoys his or her own kind of genre. My sister used to keep his copies of Reader's Digest condensed classic novels, my brother owns a whole line of war novels, court room drama and detective stories. My mom kept her bible and filled it with underlines, notes and reflections. As a result, or partly because I didn't have my own money to buy myself a book, I read a little of all those different genres and considered it just as lovely.
So from children's graphic bible stories, to weekly newspapers, romance pocketbooks, to inspirational and even self help, I've lived with so much books as a growing up might need more than textbooks.
Tonight is a particularly different night. As we are all feeling tired of attending to our own endeavor this weekend, and having so little time to catch up, we chose to actually keep our quiet and enjoy the little noise as pages turned and books are read under not so good lighting.
I am currently enjoying "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott, something I bought yesterday to fill in the gaps of being alone sometimes, and partly to satisfy my craving for a good read.
Kuya bam is reading one of his collections of James Patterson's Alex Cross. He was even bragging about being able to read three books this month, lucky him!
Kuya zan, the eldest in our house is reading Mitch Albom's Have a Little Faith, after finishing his Five People You Meet in Heaven the other day. It's a long overdue read, actually, for he is the busiest among us. It's good that he can still Have a little time to read, though. It's a great stress reliever, and a simple way to live a life without having to spend so much.
The family that reads together, learns together.
If you're a book lover yourself, why not try to influence your family into reading too. Who knows, you might be able to swap and lend each your collections. Save you a lot of good deal, isn't it? :)
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