So what's your favorite book?

I'm seeing someone again. This time, the brightly feathered details I've been pruning for so long have done the trick. Over a bottle of water, I told him that I just came from the gym across the street, I'm not exactly free on Saturday nights 'coz of choir and that I graduated from UP Manila already, which is how this PSP ended up in hands: reading JAVA PDFs for a presentation at work the next day.

And it went well for an unexpected first date. The hickeys from the second are proof enough, though my mom would definitely not agree. She hasn't said anything about them yet though.

So he keeps texting, day-in, day-out. Stuff that's too sweet, in English I'd be more than happy to correct. He's also kinda rotund around the waist, which is an issue for me actually.

But, he's got a damn hot bedroom voice, and he could dance too. The slight 4 o'clock shadow sealed the deal for me.

So what's wrong?

I don't know. I really don't. I met the guy a few days after deciding on my criteria for the right kind of man. For me, it all came down to a single question: What's you're favorite book? Do you like it exciting like Robert Ludlum or Sydney Sheldon? Whimsical fantasy from Terry Pratchett? Technical to a fault like Micheal Crichton? Fascinatingly factual like Dan Brown? Drunk on old time classics like J.D. Salinger or George Orwell? Seductively strange like Neil Gaiman or Edgar Allan Poe or even Stephen King? Takeshi Matsu even?

And he doesn't even have a favorite book, not even a movie. Though he reads a lot of self-help books.

I'm just worried. He makes up for it with plenty of enthusiasm but I'm not sure that's gonna cut it for me. I want someone to send me through mental cartwheels, stimulate the grey matter, if you will. I tried using the word 'gesticulate' in actual conversation and he didn't react. Which could be good, he might have understood and doesn't care. Or maybe not, came in one ear, out the other.

But, as always, I'm optimistic. I did go to the second date, right? Once bitten, twice shy.

And yeah, it's a guy. Let it go already, geez. @_@