Summer Reading List

"Mama, dah abis baca buku ni. Belikan buku baru."

"Ha dah abis? Ni baca betul ke, main langkah-langkah je ni?"

Itulah mama saya. Sewaktu umur saya 10 tahun, saya mengikuti satu siri buku "5 Penyiasat", ditulis oleh penulis buku kanak-kanak terkenal, Enid Blyton. Ada 15 episod semuanya. Kadang-kadang, saya menghabiskan bacaan satu-satu buku tersebut dalam masa sehari sahaja, membuatkan mama curiga.

Akibatnya, terhasillah peraturan 'satu minggu satu buku', kerana bimbang saya main baca langkah-langkah, dan bukannya dari kulit ke kulit. Tuhan saja yang tahu betapa seksanya menunggu seminggu untuk mendapatkan satu buku baru!

Cuma akhir-akhir ini, saya sudah tidak serajin dulu. Kemungkinan besar kerana pengaruh internet, movies dan series yang sudah tentunya mengatasi keinginan membaca. Bayangkanlah, novel setebal 400 muka boleh dijelmakan dalam filem selama sejam setengah!

Who would wanna spend 3 days reading when you can watch a one-and-a-half-hour movie?

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Biasanya setiap kali cuti summer, saya akan menyiapkan satu projek penulisan. That's the way it was for the past 3 years. So, 3 tahun = 3 buku. Namun sejak penulisan saya mengenai Fikah Perubatan bersama PTS tergendala, semangat saya untuk menulis sudah luntur.

So, i decided to make a summer reading list instead. I enjoy reading. Maybe because when i was young, my mother was a teacher back then. Well, u know.. Teachers and their disciplines. But she limited it back then, despite of my passion for reading. And i'm SURE that she regrets it now that my little brother grew up not as an avid reader. Not a single book. Nada.

So mama if u're reading this, please know that it's not too late to buy your 'other son' (ahem) books he wanted. They're not cheap nowadays, u know (^_^)

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So, my reading list this summer:

1) Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

2) Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

3) How Doctors Think by Dr. Jerome Groopman

4) The Migraine Brain by Carolyn Bernstein

5) The South Beach Diet by Arthur Agatston

6) The South Beach Heart Revolution by Arthur Agatston

...and some other books.

There are still lotsa books i wanna add to my list. So now i'm looking for anyone from UK or US who's going back to Malaysia this summer, coz i wanna kirim some books from Amazon.com

So anyone? (^_~)