On Reading and National Bookstore

I had a chance to watch an ABS CBN show “Walang Iwanan” which featured the rich and famous in Philippine business. One of those featured was Socorro C. Ramos, the woman behind the success of National Bookstore. Before the advent of Fully Booked and Powerbooks, National Bookstore was the in place for booklovers. I used to spend most of my free time in high school and college browsing books at National Bookstore Super branch in Cubao, Quezon City.

Pocket book bestsellers (usually Bantam books) would cost thirty-five pesos and I would read it for about three to five days. Nowadays I still go to National Bookstore for school supplies, which I think, have the most varied and complete resources for our school needs.

For now, National Bookstore, has formed its own foundation and the focus of their projects is to help build libraries for public schools. “Buklat Aklat” aims to promote literacy and readership among Filipino children. You can help by simply dropping coins in coin banks located in their cashier booth.

From the words of Mrs Socorro C. Ramos, Read more, Know more and Earn More.
Hard work and diligence …. KEY TO SUCCESS !

I love reading and my  dad did influence me a lot. The Philippine Readers Book Three is one of the first books that I have read. I have kept this copy for quite some time. This is a collection of short stories and one good feature of the book is a little dictionary at the back.