Bargains we make with ourselves to justify our choices
During the past 14 years that I have been a reader, I have always come across quotes or sentences in books that hit you hard. They make you think, deeper and deeper, eventually pushing you to pen down your thoughts after dissecting that sentence. For me, that moment is now. It starts with me picking up a book at the store just because I knew the writer’s name through a recent movie that I had seen. What was so special about her book that they turned it into a movie? Why her? Why that particular story? Well, the answer to my questions were right there in front of my eyes, in a neatly stacked bookshelf. A book from that writer. The only copy of the book that I could see in that section. The last copy. That’s the problem of being ever-curious, impulse buying is always justifiable. It wasn’t until 1 year later that I picked up the book to read, when I found out the truth. I had picked up the third installment of the series, of which I had seen the first installment as a movie...