Borrowing your favourite book

“I read The History of Love by Nicole Krauss and to date I think I have given it to 18 people. But there is something, it feels like it costs, when you give a book that you really love to someone, that you love, and this dope and also this fear that they’re going to have the same experience or get just as much out of it and you’re just waiting to hear what the people you really love and respected thought of the books that really touched you, going ‘this could bring us together or really ruin a friendship!’” – Hayley Atwell

In a sense, it’s true. To date, I’ve only shared my favourite book with one person and the wait for her to finish the book and tell me what she thought of it was excruciatingly long.

Finding a good book that you really love is so difficult, perhaps almost as difficult as finding your soul mate. But I found mine (book I mean, not soul mate..then again…lols Trololololol) a while back; thanks to randomly hopping videos on YT. I stumbled upon the book’s movie trailer and the rest was, as they say, history.

I have never heard of that author before but the trailer caught my attention, and thus started the hunt for the book. I hunted for it and it was so worth the wait. I loved the book from the get go, even though I wasn’t a big fan of stories written in the first person. I couldn’t put it down, finished it over the weekend I think.

And then came one semester break, my darling friend asked if I had any books for her to read during over the holidays and after much consideration, I borrowed her that one book. And she loved it. She loved how the story was spun and also that it was written in relatively simple language. And you have no idea how relieved I was.

It’s scary, really, really scary. It’s even scarier than recommending a movie to a friend. Somehow, that book is you. And by giving it to somebody else, you are somehow letting that person judge you. It’s bloody scary. Which is why until today, I’ve only borrowed that book to two people – that darling of a friend and my mom (She liked it too. Thank goodness).