The story of how I got into books!

 I wasn't into reading when I was a child, unless my parents bought me story books. I knew of children who read full-length novels in elementary school but I guess I didn't fit into the smarts bill or the enthusiasm bill or just the self-belief bill either.

Our family had a great number of books, a library even. But I just couldn't get into all the classics or the other assortment of nonfiction and fiction books my parents had, because I couldn't relate to themes of love and other grown-up things. I wanted to enjoy being a child first.

Having nothing to do, I picked up some art books and had a subject to call my own. However, I didn't have a meatier topic to study...

Later, I found a really interesting book called "Art in China" (by Oxford) and it's kind of all that really mattered to me. :P

I just read Young Adult books in school and read school textbooks and listened to lectures and had fun.

Until I went to college and ate all the readings about the Philippines and learned Asian languages for fun then learned how to write. I also drew and made films for school projects and also got to do graphic design sometime too. One peculiar thing i noticed was that no one was motivated in school so I went out and looked for motivation online and just got motivation articles. I powered through school work and my studies. One problem that they said about me was that I didn't share my motivation articles with anyone to which I replied, no one wanted to work hard. They just want to sit and look pretty. They want to work in school and the office but they don't want to do dirty work. So why should I share my motivation if all it says is to work hard, perspire, sweat and bleed for your goals and I think no off-handedly distracted hot-blonde-type likes that. >:(

So basically, based on novels assigned for required reading, I bought my own set of books and that's just the story of how I got my own library. It includes literary fiction and classics.