ME AND MY BOOKS

I love books. I have always loved books, from a young age I have been reading. This was from when I couldn't afford to buy books and there were no libraries. I relied on handouts, secondhands and book exchanges to attempt to satisfy my insatiable habit for reading.

This was until I went to college and my first encounter with a library full of all sorts of books. I was like a child in a candy store, spoilt for choice. I didn’t know what to read and what to leave out. I thought I would read them all in a short time. I was at college for three years and I was nowhere near reading a fraction of the books in the library at the time of my graduation.

I read as much as I could during my three years at college. I had also begun to  collect books by myself from my meagre pocket money and money from my holiday jobs. I bought  my books one title at a time. Over many years I have hoarded a substantial collection of books. I buy books regularly. When a book is published I am on it.

I am lagging way behind in reading all the books in my collections. This didn't work in the beginning because I bought more than I could read. To mitigate this discrepancy I have suspended the purchases of new books for the next two years.  I think that by that time I would have devoured all the books in my collections and ready to replenish new titles.

This is me and my books, we belong to the same WhatsApp Group.