Expanding Horizons Through Reading
Books always have a special place in my heart I grew up reading books, encyclopedias, story books, short novels, etc., as my mom was once a book seller when me and my siblings were young, even as young as when I still couldn't hold my head up! This did not only teach us that books are material things that can be sold and bought, because our mom sells them, but it can help us understand the world better. What do I mean by this? Like I mentioned, I grew up surrounded by different types of printed materials like books, because of my mom’s work, it is quite inevitable. She would leave me and my little sister to their office and showroom as she roams around and offer people their products. To fight boredom, my sister and I would open one book each and little did we know, we finished a whole volume of encyclopedias. This was how we were introduced to loving reading. As we grow older, the types of materials we read have also evolved, from printed encyclopedias, to more complex ones, to y...