I Need Books!

I'm starved for a good book. I desperately need one right now. I haven't read a book in months, especially since I started blogging. I haven't sat down and read ANY books at all since then and I'm not too proud of myself. I'm not saying that I've given up reading but I've just not had the time to cuddle up in bed with a nice good book in ages. Besides I don't have anything new to read. I've spent just a tad too much time with blogging that I've forgotten my other passion, which is reading.

'Just a TAD too much, Nick?'

Ok, ok, maybe more than a tad. My passion for reading started way back in my younger days as a kid. I think I've posted about that sometime before so I'm not really going to elaborate on that again. There's something about reading that to me is so much better than watching a movie, well unless of course it is a Transformers movie, that one you just have to watch to enjoy :)

One thing I noticed these days is that kids don't really read anymore and I'm sad to say that is also true with my kids. I don't really see them reading anything at all besides their school books (which they have no choice in the matter) and the Astro TV guide to check on programme times! The love for reading is no longer apparent in the younger generation (well, in this country anyway) and that is really a very frightening thought.

I guess my reading habit was influence by my grandfather. I can still remember him sitting in his little reading room, which was actually sort of store room that he converted as his little reading haven. Many a night he would be up until the wee hours of the morning totally engrossed in whatever book he was reading. I used to like sneak into his room and mess with is books and he'd get so annoyed with me. Little by little, over time, I started to actually read some of those books. Of course it didn't make much sense to me back then cos I was still on my staple of comics and Enid Blyton books.

My grandfather had a huge and I really mean huge collection of books and novels back then. I don't what happened to do them now. I wish I had the sense of mind to actually take some of them for my collection. Who knows, some of them could be worth a lot now, right? Not that I would ever sell a book mind you. I collect books and I would never sell them no matter how much they cost. Even comics for that matter and I have quite a pile of them to begin with. I even have this Daredevil comic book that I know for a fact is worth some good money but I ain't selling it no matter what. Well, maybe for a million or two, I'd consider ... LOL!

I have a very small collection of books in my ... urrrrmmm ... mini library which is really a chair next to a bookshelf in my room ... hehehe ... Quite a bit of them are actually books I've rented and never returned. Like I mentioned in my other blog, Spiff, I paid for them anyway and they're a lot cheaper than getting new ones, some of which cost 3 times the price of these rented ones. They may not be the best of quality cos they're dogged eared and all but they're okay by me. I think I've read the collection I have close to a minimum of 10 times already and I never get bored reading them over and over again. Wifey always asks me how come I never get bored of reading them when I already know how the book is going to turn out. I just don't have a good answer for her :D

I love immersing myself deeply into a book. I tend to put myself in the place of the lead character at times and imagine every single aspect of what the author is trying to convey like the greenness of the trees, the heat of a blazing desert or in the case of my Star Trek novels, the silence of space. Reading leaves a lot to the imagination and I have a very vivid imagination, that's for sure. A book is like a TV in the mind. And you make up the pictures yourself. All this talk about reading is making me feel like picking up a good book, curl up in bed with some peanuts and a warm mug of coffee and reading the night away. That is if I can find a good book at home that I haven't already read and if the pull of my blog is not too strong ... LOL! Then again, maybe not cos it's American Idol night, there goes my reading stint for tonight ... hehehe ...