Reactivating my Goodreads account has pushed me to lower the
stack of books that has already gathered dust in the bookshelf. To say that my
to-be-read pile is out of control seems like an understatement. The nerd in me
would express this in a simple equation that the books I read is indirectly
proportional to the books I buy. At the start of the year, I had an agreement
with a friend that I would only buy a book every three months (and if I end up
breaking this rule I need to buy her one too, so far I only failed once). Ah,
the extreme measures that I must do just to control my impulse buying and
hoarding tendencies.
The books I pick up to read are based on my “mood”; some
sort of gut feel that the story would match my emotions or whatever I’m
currently going through in life. Here’s the chosen ones for the first quarter
of the year and some of my thoughts about it:
