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 There are books you read, close, and move on from. And then there are books that leave little pieces of themselves sitting inside your head. You finish a chapter, put the book down, and somehow you are still thinking about a sentence hours later. You notice yourself using a word differently. You start looking at your own habits from a slightly different angle.                                                That was my experience while reading Sophie Staring at Me by Meg Mason . I went into the book expecting a story. Instead, I found myself collecting little ideas from it—especially one new word, warping , and a thought that has been difficult to shake: “I’m fine” might be one of the most load-bearing lies in the English language. And somewhere along the way, the book also made me think about something I had never quite put into words before: Reading is the orig...

 There are some books you read because someone recommends them. And then there are books that somehow seem to find you at the exact moment you need them. For me, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig felt like the second kind.                                                                       [Amazon: Buy/Read The Midnight Library → AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK ] I picked up this book because the idea sounded fascinating: a mysterious library between life and death where every book contains a different version of your life—a life based on a different choice you could have made. But what stayed with me wasn't the fantasy of travelling through alternate lives. It was the question underneath it all: What if the life I am living right now isn't the only life I could have had? And perhaps even more importantly: What...