When I was in college working as a student librarian at the UST Main Library, I was more into reading Psychology, Philosophy, Ethics and English literature. From time to time, I would delve into those classics that the Humanities Section have lots of. I learned to appreciate Sylvia Plath and Ayn Rand. I share the same birthday with S. Plath.
I was transferred to the Asian Section for a year before I left the library. There I met and read the works of Kahlil Gibran, some Japanese poets and World History. I was fascinated by what happened during WWII when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and it occupied the Philippines. The only stories I heard before about the war were from my grandmother and my mom who was still in her teens that time.
My love for historical fiction started then. I can’t count the number of books I read about WWII. I still read them until now. There is something that gets you engrossed reading about the 20th century too, how life was back then although they were written in fiction. One of my favorite books that chronicled how life was in a concentration camp during WWII was Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. He was a prisoner of war. I love Leon Uris’ books too. There was a time I collected his books but most of them got flooded in 2009. Mila 18 and QB VII were favorites. Just finished German Wife by Kelly Rimmer, in the middle of reading The Things We Cannot Say by the same author and will start The Warsaw Orphan soon. They are all about what happened during WWII.
I would never get tired of reading historical fiction books but insert some thrillers from time to time.
Dreams And Escapes 