How are you doing? Its been a long time. How is your studies going on? Hope you are having fun at School with books as well as games.

First thing first. “Books are Not a job to finish”. I used to take that attitude and with discipline used to ‘finish’ a lot of books. But I realized what a wonderful thing I am missing if see them as job than say viewing books in the same way as I view other interesting and engaging things.

Would it be interesting to adopt this way of thinking that, just as you play football, you read the book too. There is as much fun in it. But you got get the correct book.

As we are living in a marketing world, the bookshops and sellers want to sell all sorts of books to us. That would be like playing some boring game forced upon us. One would hate it.

But just try good books and see if they are engaging, they can show a whole new world. The reading list you have mentioned is very good. Those are my favorite too and I just opened the wikipedia page of Gerald Durrell to know more about him.

What I like the most is Issac Asimov’s popular science books.

If you happen to bookshop, “A guide to Earth, Moon and Space” is a good one.

I also like R.K.Narayan’s. All of them are very simple to read.

And nowadays I like almost any book, which is
a) simple
b) easy to understand
c) and the author is honest in his approach. (You might need to get some guidance judging this. Just ask around ).

All these points combined make books as enjoyable as watching a good video or playing an absorbing game.

Good Luck and keep sharing your reading list.

–
Senthil