
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd”> I can clearly recall stories my mother told me about my fascination for books. She chronicled how I would go on flipping through the pages of my older siblings’ books, mumbling some unknown words to myself. She said I read them with all seriousness – life…