I'm losing interest in Monopoly Tycoon. Hehehe. I fed my addiction so much I've lost interest in it already. I need to get into something new. Something to use my time with (apart from literature, reading, study and the like). That, or I need a new book again.

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Me and my mom went and covered books in plastic. The two of us sort of bonding, while cutting plastic and taping them around the book covers. I think my folks approve of the fact that I'm reading so much again, after so long. They've always thought all I did was play on the PC (which they always see me do whenever they arrive home), so reading is a good thing.

It was there I realized how large my reading list is today. Check:
"Skin, Voices, Faces" - Danton Remoto
"Promising Lights" - D.M. Reyes
"Buena Vista Ventures" - Alfredo Salanga
"Father Poems" - collection, edited by Sir Krip and Jimmy Abad
"100 Love Poems: Philippine Love Poetry Since 1900" - collection, also edited by Sir Krip and Jimmy Abad. bias kasi teacher ko si Krip. hehe.]
"The Nymph of MTV" - Angelo Suarez
"Salvaged Poems" - Eman Lacaba [a favorite of mine now]
"Alipato" - Ma'am Beni Santos [another rakstar favorite book. bias kasi mentor. hehe.]
"The Time Machine" - H.G. Wells [almost lost this book, found it at last]
"Letters to a Young Poet" - Rainer Maria Rilke [re-reading this.]

and there was one more, but I can't remember it. I think I also gave a cover to the new Senior's Folio of Heights, para masabi na sa akin talaga siya. hehehe.

Yes, it's a large list, but trust me, they're all relatively short books. :p And the cool thing about a book of poems is that you'll never get tired of them. That's because nobody reads a book of poems from cover to cover (unless you're like some people I know). I open the book, and read what I see, then move on. I'll stop when I'm done with one, think it over, then read another. It's like a box of pizza: you don't need a "left to right" system to pick the slice you want.

There are also 4 library books to my name:
"Los Versos del Capitan (The Captain's Verses)" - Pablo Neruda
"The New Poetry" - a collection of modern works from British writers and people who lived in Britain, published in the 1950's, so they's Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and others I'm not familiar with because they're British.
"Poetics" - Aristotle
"The Art of Poetry" - Valery

I don't remember who the translators are. The books are downstairs. I'll return them by Monday, in order to make way for "real academics".

If you don't approve of anthing in my collection of reading material, please comment FAST. I don't know if what I'm reading right now is good (except for Gelo Suarez's work, which I'm not that fond of, now that I've re-read it a few times].

Gack. I'm reverting to my 6-8 year-old self, the fat kid who kept his nose in books all day. :( Only this time, I'm reading "real" literature instead of Biology books and Choose-Your-Own-Adventures.

But I gotta do this again, if I wanna be good at what I do.

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By the way, my brother's playing in Conspiracy (the new bar along Visayas Ave) tonight. I hear he's fronting for Cynthia Alexander or something. I'll head there later to see. Mga 10 PM pa naman daw, so I'll leave later. Nood din kayo, kung wala rin kayong gagawin. Wish him luck.