How Books Can Save Your Life
A single dad asks the Book Doctor in FT:
My teenage daughter tells me she needs more money to go shopping. I’m a single father and not short of money, but this desire to shop seems insatiable. Please help me understand.
The Book Doctor’s answer:
If you don’t already understand, you will never appreciate the desire to shop. But perhaps you can relate to the feeling of reward a successful purchase can bring.
“What’s it like? It’s like going hungry for days, then cramming your mouth full of warm buttered toast. It’s like waking up and realising it’s the weekend. It’s like the better moments of sex. Everything else is blocked out of your mind. It’s pure, selfish pleasure.”
My problem? How to stop myself from buying books… If there’s a self-help book on this, I’m buying it.
