The smell of a fresh crisp book as you open that first page and begin your journey...
It is amazing but refreshing to know that everyone's preference for a novel, a biography, or another non-fiction is so diverse. Why is it still a surprise then that the latest best seller just bores you and makes you fall asleep as you commute on your way to work/home? Yet, the one random book that suddenly strikes your fancy as you browse the multi-faceted covers full of animation, photos or other attractions just sucks you in from the first few words through the end.
The Black Swan -- certainly a useful read, in the least and my most recently completed. What may be inspirational to some is overrated and overhyped to others. In many ways it is controversial and in a few particular ways it is fascinating. Moral of the story -- everyone should stop trying to run to catch the bus/train, which I am happy to say I began doing a little while back.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -- what consumes my current commute and makes a little over an hour seem like a 5 minutes ride. It is surprising, full of foreshadowing. It is historic as it tells the story and the irony of "the other side" in Afganistan's journey of the end of the last century. It is educational, taking a peak into a culture and diversity of the people of the Islamic faith that a foreigner will never fully understand.
I hope to find more of the random books, authors and fate-changing stories.
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