Present

             We give and take presents when birthday or wedding anniversary. According to recent news, most people prefer to receive money, gift certificate or accessory. The worst presents are a bunch of flowers, a letter and ‘heart’. Well, I like to receive anything, money or even just ‘heart’, because I hope I can respect all people who prepared something to me. However, I have a little taste that I want to receive as a present; book.

            Last year on my birthday, I received 4 books from my friends. The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley, Le père de nos pères 1, 2 by Bernard Werber, and Wednesday by Ethan Hawke were those. Especially Wednesday by Ethan Hawke was very impressive because I hate popular lowbrow novel so I had never read novels about love story. However, by the present of my friend, I got a good chance to read that kind of novel. Actually, the book was not bad than I thought. If someone didn’t give me such book, I would never have a chance to read which I had a prejudice about. With this as a momentum, now I’m trying to read any kind of book without bias.

             I think it is good to give someone book as a present instead of money or something like that. A good book makes people happy and gives good motives to try something new. I hope I can receive many good books on my next anniversary.