Text & photos By Chonx Tibajia (The Philippine Star) | Updated November 30, 2014 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - I spent Christmas Eve of 1998 with Harry, Hermione and Ron. It’s all still very vivid to me. Harry and his cupboard under the stairs, Hagrid and the Knight Bus, Hogwarts Express, Dumbledore’s beard — this was my world while everybody else at home was on a manic cooking-entertaining-gift-wrapping spree. The book was given to me as an early Christmas present, and like every book I had ever been given (from my Big Book of Buttons from when I was three, to the illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland my mom gave me when I was five, to the mangled copy of Journey to the Center of the Earth I loaned from my grade school library and never returned, to my very first Neil Gaiman read, Neverwhere, which was a gift to myself), it was nothing short of magical.
See, when you read a book, you simultaeneously create two streams of memory: first, of the world in between the pages, and second, of the world around you as you read — how you felt, what you were wearing, if it was dark or bright or warm or freezing, what you were drinking. I don’t believe a personalized mug or box of overpriced brownies can do that. They make for thoughtful presents that are truly personalized. As Xandra Ramos-Padilla, managing director of National Book Store (a.k.a. the person responsible for bringing in titles we may not otherwise find here, like The Monocle Guide to Better Living and The Kinfolk Table Cookbook) says, “There’s a perfect book for every person.” It’ll be like introducing your friends to their soulmates — if the book fits, they will be forever grateful.
While you’re at it, why don’t you make that a full care package? Think of a theme, say, Artsy Bohemian Martha Stewart, and build an entire gift box from there — and most of the items you might need to create the perfect present can be found at NBS. This is coming from someone who visits its Glorietta 1 branch thrice a week, just to see what’s new. It’s come to the point where I know exactly how some books are arranged: Bob Dylan’s Stardust first, then Billy Corgan’s Blinking With Fists, then Leonard Cohen’s Let Us Compare Mythologies.
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