i am re-finding the joy of borrowing books from the library. despite the to-be-reads all lined up nicely on my bookshelves at my vacation home. i am suddenly finding joy in the books i can borrow, enjoy the read and having no commitment to keep it.

I should have realised this before. but please, do not take me wrongly, i still love my books that i owned, they are from authors i loved, series and academic books. academic by which i meant books on religion and education.

borrowing books also forced me to read within the period of loan and so far, i have enjoyed reading the books i borrowed that i have not stopped reading for days now. it’s one book after another.

and i loved it that i could reserve a book and able to borrow it within a few days. albeit paying $1.55 for every successful reservation, but compared to saving about $20 every time i actually bought one book, i’m on it! if i loved the book i will keep it, if i dont, i try to sell it away but which will take forever sometimes, and if there’s no luck, i give it away, hoping someone else will find joy reading it. so i guess, for books which i am not sure if whether i will love, i probably will borrow first.

and libraries nowadays are updated. so far, my search on ‘latest’ or new books, have not yet disappoint me.

and it also gives me this motivation to read up the books i owned and have not touched yet. having that anchor of reading within a short period of time. giving reviews, even if no one else reads it and it is purely for my own thoughts. perhaps practice will make perfection. so i am slowly practising, and reading others’ reviews and learn from their writing styles, finding and writing one that reflects my own reading pattern and passion and writing. because at the end of it, i am not trained as a writer. maybe i should take up some course.

I am aiming to read differently too. I mean, reading has always been just reading for stories, for escape, for a different life. but i don’t read smart sometimes. i want to read and be able to write good reviews about the book. Maybe it could benefit someone out there.

let’s do this.