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Every reader knows the joy of bonding with someone over a favourite read, and we should encourage all efforts to share this with others.
ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
SINGAPORE - According to my mother, the first and only time I threw a public tantrum was over a book. I was three years old and didn’t want to leave the children’s book section in the two-storey Toys“R”Us opposite Parkway Parade. I could barely read, but had a meltdown anyway.
Books continued to hold my attention as I grew up. I got told off for reading at the dinner table and under my desk at school. I made myself carsick trying to read on the bus.
