9. One-night-stands

I call them my ‘one-night stands,’ and my wife has no issue with such a habit. If there was a particular book that I could not resist reading from cover to cover in one night, it had to be Ambeth Ocampo’s books. My first ‘quickie’ was way back the 90s through the author’s column in the Daily Inquirer. I still have a long way to go with my paperback collection: I usually buy one when I see a bookstore—the pocketbook types I bought through the years at a branch of National’s in NAIA terminal three (I prefer a book instead of devouring a pricey dim sum next door). Try reading Ocampo if you want to understand your history better—I can guarantee you it’s less complicated than a real one-night stand.