FLEDGLING LIBRARY

Compared to serious bibliophiles, my book collection is a fledgling one. There are many reasons for this. One of them is the fact that life in these parts is so temporary that it will be such a waste to keep buying and collecting books, only to spend a fortune on shipping them back later to Manila [actually, in Binan, Laguna] when it's time to finally settle in Merrill Court. Another corollary reason would be the high cost of books which I usually buy from bookstores/bookshops or online [the latter entails the additional cost for shipping and sometimes customs/duties]. The emergent prevalence of e-books doesn't really impact my love for books that much since even if books I want/love to own appear as e-books, I would surely still get myself a copy of the real thing.

Though my library is still quite small, I realize that I tend to collect an eclectic mix, including Harry Potters (I'm just waiting for the seventh book to complete my set), Dan Browns, Mitch Alboms, Jeffrey Archers, autobiographies (I now have Katharine Graham's and Hillary Rodham-Clinton's), some serious classics (would the complete volume of works of Shakespeare fall under this; JRR Tolkiens), reading lite (The Nanny Diaries, Blessing) and lifestyle books (Martha Stewarts, architecture and design, travels, muscles, diets and exercises). I also have a stash of erotica but it is of course not for the general public to find out really.

I look forward to collecting/owning fashion and photography/photographer books, John Irvings, etc.

I have yet to come up with a complete list/inventory but I think you can already form conclusions from my book choices. One of them could be that I am really such a pretentious bookworm!