I've read a German book in which almost every verb was used in the present tense, and I liked it - the story flow is more living. Why are anecdotes told with verbs in the present tense or why do we use the present tense telling about what happened to us yesterday? In order to make them more inpressive, as if you saw things happening with your own eyes. And the past tense is boring - all works of literature in the world are written in past. People like the new and unusual.