I've always considered book-shopping a solitary activity. I spend a lot of time at bookstores, perusing book covers, spines, and synopsis. The art of book-shopping is many things to me, myself and I: therapeutic, fun, adventurous even stressful. So I didn't realize how one friendly comment from a fellow book-shopper would change my book-shopping experience.
Again, I was at a bookstore, aiming for a therapeutic experience after a stressful week at work. Perusing the YA, fantasy, and fiction shelves, I was randomly picking and dropping books, not really considering to buy this book or that book. For a moment, I had The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern in my hand when out of nowhere a woman says to me "That's a great book."
I was caught off guard that someone had actually spoken to me at a bookstore! Weird, huh? One would think there would be a rumble of verbal activity among book lovers, but I noticed that bookstores are often silent with shoppers who seem to have raised a wall between themselves and everything not books.
The nice woman and I had a conversation about The Night Circus for about a minute. And I realized, sometimes it's not the reviews on Goodreads and Amazon that convince me to buy a book; rather it's the friendly interactions with shoppers that spark my interest and wallet.
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