Literary Pleasures

I've had a student stay with us for almost a month in July, & listening to her talk about her school work & book interests sparked in me my old "literary passion" from my days as a teenager.

To feed on this newly revived "book-hunger", I decided to visit my old favourite 2nd hand book joints in Bras Basash Complex, as well as Sunny Bookshop in Far East Plaza (this shop has moved to Plaza Singapura in Dhoby Ghaut).

Over 2 or 3 visits, I've "amassed" (if you can call this amount an 'amass-ing') these collection of some old time children classics that I've loved as a kid, mixed with some serious reads enjoyed by the young & old, plus some Christian books as well.

PS: I'm beginning to entertain ambitious thoughts of re-collecting my childhood favourites by Enid Blyton, especially the Malory Towers, St Claire's series & other fun filled adventures by kids to magical far far away land.. (all these for the sake of my kids enjoyment of course... *ahem*)

I'm just as excited as a teenager again with all these books proudly displayed in (my kid's) book shelf & couldnt quite decide which to start with.

Some of the classic favourites such as Jane Austen's Persuasion & Pride and Prejudice were bought at a steal... $2 :D ... I intend to go back there & slowly built up the other titles written by her too... Emma, Sense & Sensibilities...

I've recently completed her 'Persuasion' & decided it's fairly entertaining after all. Contrary to my previous ideas of how old classics will bore me to tears with it's fancy old English. Granted, it took a while getting used to, hehe...

This is enough for today, though I had initially thought of writing a brief review of Helen Keller's biography, which I've decided to save for my next or future post :D

What are you reading today?