Goodbye, Big Bad Wolf

I USED to read crazy. In elementary school, I would finish one “Hardy Boys” book a day which I had borrowed from the library in the morning and returned the following day. I remember reading during recess, lunch, while waiting for my ride home, during the ride home and at home.

High school was a little different. I became serious with my personal relationship with God so I dropped stories about sleuths and picked up the Bible on my free times instead. Of course, high school was also the time and place I embraced music, and felt that it had embraced me as well. I spent some time playing in the school band and the cherry on top was when I was fortunate enough to write our batch’s graduation song. Throw in a little basketball and rare football runs into the schedule, and reading definitely took a backseat.

But music opened me to writing songs. I wrote tons of verses; stuff I’d call poetry, the very kind that made scribes cringe and literary forefathers roll in their final resting places. The forced rhymes, the pop culture references and puns—but these were words I believed in. And that was enough. I bled in ink and went with the flow.

In college, I was blessed to study in a university which featured one of the best libraries in the city. But college happened, you know? It was either work or play—and reading was below my list of play options. The huge library became a footnote to this chapter in my life I was barely trying to finish. I still read occasionally, but I took on more writing assignments this time being a Mass Communication student.

During my last year, I chose to have my internship here in SunStar. From that point more than a decade ago until today, I’ve learned and grown under the guidance of the best of the best. And it is definitely true what they say: “The more you learn, the less you know.” My reading preferences turned from fiction to non-fiction this time, gathering as much knowledge as I can cram into my head.

Last July 13 to 23, the Big Bad Wolf book sale was here in Cebu. Yes, today they’re gone. For those of you who have been living under a rock, the sale was one of a kind, offering discounts as high as 80 percent and thus, drawing a crowd fit for rockstars. I dropped by thrice, as much as my finances would allow me, and was able to purchase four books.

The first one was the Tony Robbins classic “Awaken the Giant Within.” I was able to score his other book “Money: Master the Game” during a trip to Singapore and thought I needed to read Robbins’ “other” book. Then, I took a chance with a leadership title “Every Leader is an Artist” by Michael O’Malley and William F. Baker. Wrapping up my buys were “A Disruptive Gospel” by Mac Pier (a sharing on how millennials deal with Christianity) and “The Case for the Psalms” by N.T Wright (A songwriter myself, I wanted to tap into the power of the ultimate songbook in world history).

Now I try to tell myself, “a book a month should be easy for one who used to down a book a day, shouldn’t it?” What have I gotten myself into?

Thank you, Big Bad Wolf, for putting me in this situation. Hope you come back with books about U2, Coldplay and Fulton Sheen.

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