Occam's Razor is Still Sharp

Oh my, don't really want to start counting...  i'm pretty sure it can't be less than a hundred.  As a kid, I used to have those Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books (hope I'm remembering the title correctly), some Hardy Boys, and even elementary textbooks.  See, my father was a school principal, and when the school library caught fire, a lot of books were deemed to be beyond repair (they still looked pretty good to me).  My father hates to throw away anything, so he bought all of them home, by the hundreds.  I must have read them all, not having a lot of other diversions to devote my time to.  (I even read the Good Manners and Right Conduct Books.  Not to say that I'm very well mannered, mind you.)

Hey, do comic books count?  Had a couple of them too as a kid.  I still don't know what happened to them all.  It's funny how those things have a habit of disappearing from me.

I started to seriously acquire books when I started college in UP Diliman.  That was the first time I was away from home and had a sizable allowance.  When I went home fro my summer vacation that year, my luggage consisted mostly of books.  2 whole boxes worth.  The rest of my stuff only occupied 1 box.

The last book I bought:

Let me think... I think it was "Bully for Brontosauros" by Stephen Jay Gould, the great Naturalist.

The last book I read:

I'm still reading the above book.  It's a collection of essays by Gould on a range of topics, the author being a polymath whose interests range from dinosaurs, the development of the QWERTY keyboard, science hoaxes, and so much more.