I have a streak of impulsivity with regard to book or novel purchases, because most of the time novels that one wants are in short number. This is most evident especially in second-hand bookstores: more often than not, the novels that one has failed to purchase because of a lack of money or other reasons cannot be found when one returns to the same bookstore (unless one returns immediately after getting the required amount of money, but even then there is still high chance that it may have been purchased, especially if the novel is rare). This is the reason why I tend to rely on impulse whenever I purchase novels, because I primarily buy them from second-hand bookstores. Read the rest of this entry »