![]() One book that immediately caught my eye was titled “Ivanhoe,” a novel about an English knight in the time of the crusades. ![]() ![]() ![]() There I came across some “medieval age” books about kings and knights, whose exploits were a staple for kids my age because of our exposure to “Illustrated Classics,” and Tagalog comic books which featured fantasy-adventure heroes like “Prinsipe Amante.” Since none of the suggested books strongly appealed to me, I sauntered over to the library to browse. He gave us a recommended list of books for preteeners, which included the “Hardy Boys,” “X Bar X Boys” and “Dave Dawson” adventure series, but he also said we were free to choose any other book in the school library that we liked. I was 11 years old and in first year high school when our English teacher gave us our first book report assignment. That experience also awakened in me a lifelong love and almost insatiable appetite for reading. This insight from a famous figure of antiquity is all the more striking because it was made way before mass printing was invented, when every copy of a literary work was painstakingly reproduced as a manuscript.Īfter the textbooks and simple children’s stories we were made to read in grade school, my first exposure to serious reading was like a massive door which, after I was able to push it open with great effort, led me to a magical new world I could visit and revisit with the greatest ease thereafter. “A room without a book is like a body without a soul.” -Cicero
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