Sometimes you read a book, and it really inspires you. I'm sure you've had the feeling. It's like when you read a book on a new health fad and you're thinking - my GOD, all the answers to my health problems and weight issues and ageing fears will all be fixed by this wonderful new eating regime! It's so obvious!! I will start it immediately and I will be SO HEALTHY. And so you start down the track of religiously following all the ideas and themes laid out in the book. Then a couple of weeks go by and some old habits start sneaking in, just here and there. Then it's a month and there are whole days where you forget the book and its life-changing ideas (mainly because, well, maybe your life hasn't changed as much as you would have hoped). A year later, the book and it's ideas are at the Op Shop. This trajectory of events happens with fiction books as well. A story grabs you by the shirt and drags you through its emotional depths and giddy he...
The random musings of a girl who loves Librarian Life.