Confessions of a Bibliophile

I’d take a bullet for you. I don’t know when or where this dialogue was first used, but it does have a deep meaning to it. Well, at least it used to have until the 20 th century. Still, a lot of us have thought about expressing our feelings to our friends/loved ones through this sentence. Not just because it sounds badass, but because we strongly feel this about at least one friend in our life – the best friend . I know I have imagined saying it multiple times at multiple occasions. Although it never happened but I did imagine it multiple times. That’s how we Bibliophiles are. We take a lot of time to finish up a book because there is a movie which keeps playing behind our eyes for every line we read. Well, it can also be because the book might be boring, which is highly doubtful in case of bibliophiles. And sometimes it is because few books takes us back to into our memories where we relive them. Some good, some bad. When I came across the following line it brought a lot o...

There is this feeling I can’t explain. It is not there all the time. It rarely appears. But when it does come, it liberates me every time. One of the most irritating thing about a Bibliophile is they want to read every book in the world that has ever been written. It is irritating because no sooner I reach the end of a book, I end up imagining the next one that I am going to pick up. I weigh the potential risks of starting a really thick book or a classic or a mystery. What if I can’t stop reading? What if I forget all my other chores while I get engrossed in a book? Or what if I can’t finish it in a given timeline? ( Yes, I have a timeline. Big Surprise!) However, with all those anxious thoughts in my mind, I love how it feels when a book is about to end with the final conclusion, mysteries solved and a happy ending – or rather – a satisfactory ending. Especially when the author throws in a remarkable sentence that you could just read to no end. This happened when I...