Love of Reading

Despite of the popular belief that doctors like me are nerds and like reading books for their past time, I for one am not. Outside from my school textbooks and professional journals (which does not mean I enjoy reading them), there were only a handful of books that I have read. I rather watch TV or a movie, or better yet, just stare blankly outside the window and daydream. (I can invent a book report though.)

I don’t even read instruction manuals, much to the chagrin of my wife, as I try to build newly bought things that need self-assembly without reading the manual first. That goes without saying that sometimes I assembled them improperly.Then I am forced to read the manual.

There are a few books, however, that interest me. Last year, my friend, Jenny, who is the most widely read person I know and whose book collection might rival the Library of Congress (OK, I exaggerated a little bit, but just a little bit), gave me some books (Bob Ong books) that I enjoyed very much. In fact, I read them in one sitting. Well, because the books were not thick at all.

But last Christmas, I received as a gift from my wife, a set of books that I really, really like. I was introduced to this books when I was in Medical School. I had a couple of this series before, but now my wife gave me the whole collection of the works of this renowned author. I have difficulty putting the books down once I started reading them. These books will be a treasure to our home library, at least from my perspective.

I really like my new gift of books. Got to go now, I have to go back to my reading………….”The Complete Collection of Calvin and Hobbes.”