He said, “we must come back here”.
Oh yes, why not? Fancy my son being so supportive of my hobbies. Although he is not into fiction books like I am, he loves accompanying me to bookstores and letting me find more books to explore and read. Yesterday was one such lovely day that we got to spend together after a lightning trip to the supermarket to buy groceries. Grocery-shopping, reading labels and nutrition facts, finding something new, making list of items that we need to buy – purely routine for some but it’s a joy for me to do.
Last week when he saw what I bought at Books for Less, he promised to go with me to buy more. Who would not be thrilled with that? I thought he would be put off by the gargantuan and riotously arranged books on display there but he found out something to his interest, a hard-bound book on games (cards, magic tricks etc.) and he was hooked. He was even surprised that all books on sale are at P10 pesos each.
And more books.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness. ~Jules Renard
I found two more books on Christmas, one is a collection of short Christmas stories by Rosamunde Pilcher and a novel by Debbie Macomber. I found a copy of Taylor Caldwell’s Captains and the Kings. I watched the tv series decades ago. That was mid-seventies, I think when television programs were something to look forward to, not the sort of teleseryes (soap operas) that they have now that I never bother to watch. I remember watching it with Mom and Dad along with the television sitcom John and Marsha, the longest running comedy series that made us all laugh. I love history even if they are just written through fiction books. It is now hard to find mass-produced copies of novels written by great writers from way back except maybe in second-hand bookstores and I was lucky to find Captains and the Kings. It has mostly five-star ratings on Goodreads . I am also excited to read Los Alamos, a first novel by Joseph Canon. I have just finished reading the second book of Ken Follett on WWII and this would be a nice follow-up since its setting was at the end of WWII. How lucky could one get, right?
Yes, of course.
Yesterday, when Josef said that we have to come back and add some more to my loot, I readily answered, “Yes, of course” with a smile on my face that says, what a lovely day!
What books are you reading at the moment?
Dreams And Escapes 
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