Will. Read. A. Book.

I've been looking for a book by Jack Henry Abbott since I've read about Norman Mailer in Wikipedia. You see, I don't read books much. But I read a random article in Wikipedia every now and then. I browse different websites here and there. I stare at my travel website everyday. Those are the things that my eyes do.

So I realized, when I was in college, I would read the news paper every morning. Watch the news every night. And on summer breaks, I would read ALL the school paper that I've collected over the past academic year. I love re-reading beautiful articles. I used to read paperback novels. Mommy and Ate have collections of all sorts of novels. Sometimes, they'd realize that they recently bought the same book, so there'd be two of the same title in our bookshelves. I've never been fond of reading what they read.

But they taught me to be fond of reading paperbacks. I have a collection of Choose Your Own Adventure books. Mommy would buy me one copy every trip to the bookstore. Ate had a couple of Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley University books when she was a teenager but I never touched any of them. I had random books in my shelf. Mommy would buy me any book that I get from the store. These books I used to make her buy, I only bought because of the pretty cover. I remember a book I got when I was not yet a teenager -- Murder in the Limelight. I have not read it until today. But the cover is purple so it caught my eyes, and the title seemed interesting too.

Last Saturday, at midnight, my batchmates went to my place to continue the night from 9 Mile Bar. Someone opened up the Harry Potter topic and it lasted for half an hour or so. There's so little that I remember about the last HP book that I read. I stopped reading Book 3 because my sister's copy was heavy, hard bound and there's just too many pages! Not everyone in our group has read the book, nor seen the movie, so there were mixed reviews. Still, I know that I would not find the time to read Book 6 and 7. Last night, my housemates said we should watch the movie. But I was already out, on my way to Tara (may she rest in peace).

The last book I started to read was Tuesdays with Morrie. And did not even finish page 20. I've always meant to read my Armand book but I think I've already misplaced it. I don't have a big book case in the apartment to put all my books, like what we had in my parents' house -- my mom has her own book case in her room which only contains a few authors, but with complete titles. Mommy would read new books and then give them away, or pile them somewhere else, apart from her favorite authors. My sister has a book case upstairs in our corridor, but she took most of her books with her when she got married. What's left in the book case are some of my books, and dust. Those books, that belonged to me are mostly about the Biology, Geography, Dinosaurs and text books. I really don't want to get rid of them. And now they look stupid in a book case that's taller than me!

Now according to Wikipedia, here are the books with Claims of at least 1 billion copies sold:

Book	Author(s)	Original language	First published	Approximate sales
Bible [1](Koine Greek τὰ Βίβλια)	Traditional Christian view: Revelation or Inspiration by God[2] to various authors	Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic	70 BC- 105 AD, Further information: dating of the Bible	2.5 billion[3] to more than 6 billion[4]
毛主席语录 (Quotations from Chairman Mao) (the Little Red Book)	Quotations from Mao Zedong; collected by the PLA Daily of the People's Liberation Army and signed by Lin Biao	Chinese & 50 languages	1964	800 million[5] to 6.5 billion; note, however, that of the 6.5 billion copies printed and shipped, maybe only a third were actually bought, and the rest are on stock in stores or factories worldwide[6]

We have a bible at home but I've only read a few random pages of it, and yes, I have a red book of Chairman Mao, but I'm not sure if this is the one in this list.

I could have the two best selling books of all time and I've not read any them completely. So maybe later, I will read a book.