i’m repacking my cupboard of books now (still a long way from my dream shelf arrangement, hahaha) and i realised that every book in my collection can tell a story not only about my reading experience but also my background (for better or worse). so i’ll start with this:
i bought this book in primary 5 or 6 – i remember it was one of those books where i bought despite not being very interested + it was very expensive ($10+ back then is more than a week’s worth of allowance, especially when we’ve always saved up like mad to eat at the nearby ministry of environment building instead of in our own canteen, hahaha)
it’s also super long, and i can safely say that i’ve never progressed past page 50 out of 800 (edit: turns out it is exactly 1275 pages long). i bought it because my classmates were obsessed over tom clancy and the rainbow six computer games (which i naturally started playing also, although i turned out to be terrible and also terribly bored at the easy rate of dying or mission failure) and i was wondering how on earth could my classmates devour books like ‘hunt for red october’ so i thought i should buy a tom clancy novel and try reading..
well, i tried.
i think i didn’t read anything back in p5 or p6!