It started with The Firm, then the kick-ass Pelican Brief,
then The Broker (borrowed from a co-teacher), then Grisham’s 1st
non-fiction work, The Innocent Man. From then on, I can’t stop. I am officially
addicted.
So a day after my bday this year, I darted to NCCC’s
Book Sale and rummaged through a sea of books for any John Grisham
classics. I’ve been smitten by legal thrillers lately that I feel I’ve outgrown
adventure and fantasy genres already. Needless to say, my summer has been John
Grisham season.
Luckily, I found with microscopic eyes the
books I’ve been looking for: A Time to Kill (1989), The Client (1993) and The
Brethren (2000), with prices of P83 and P75 respectively. I have always
marvelled at how I can find cheap but incredible books at book shops, just as
I’ve bought Pelican Brief at P40, and a hard-bound, very new and good looking
“Playing for Pizza” at P45, both of course are John Grisham’s.
I want to collect and read more of his books, and I know I’m
far from getting over. But I’m also looking forward to read books from other
authors, specifically thriller/mystery/action packed ones. One friend suggested
Ludlum (The Bourne Series) while another said Tami Hoag (hers mostly deal with
cop/detective mystery novels). I bought and started reading Hoag’s “Dust to
Dust” but left it unfinished once I got hold of Grisham’s “A Time to Kill”.
And though there’s a part in me that wants to go back to
reading Young adult contemporaries (John Green and Rainbow Rowell, for instance),
a stronger part wants to stay in reading the second-hand, the almost-forgotten,
and the not-so-heard-of types.
After all, National Book Store’s book prices hurt my wallet
in ways Book Sale can’t. J
Labels: books, books about life, Random Musings
