the short wanderer

It has been almost two years since I first started my journey of being a museum curator. But even as a curator, the idea of 'curating a reading list' has never occurred to me, despite knowing that the things that I watch or see, listen to, and read, pretty much impact my life substantially. I would go to bookstores without a particular book to find in mind, which is very much unlike a grocery shopping trip where I'd most of the time drop by the store with a shopping list (which can be a written or a mental one). With bookstores visit last time, I'd pick up anything that piqued my interest, and that's it - it will then be part of my reading list of the year, of the year after - who knows when I'll end up reading it. In essence, the purchase comes first before the intention of reading/finishing it. But a conversation I had at a booth during a book launch seminar in KL changed my mind.  I was just casually looking at the different books they put on the table, when ...