Books have been always my best companions. When I am sad,
when I am happy, when I am tired … and when I am sleepless. Most importantly,
books are my refuge when reality becomes too painful to bear. In the coming days,
I will introduce you to my escorts that helped me last couple of months to go
through some difficult times of heartbreak, failure, loss, and disheartening.
The
diary of a young girl by Anne Frank
I assume most of you have already read or heard about this book.
The story of the little Jewish girl who wrote her diary while in hiding during World War II. The book was on my to-read list for more than 3 years until last
February. In addition to messy days I was going through, I had a serious
sleeping issue and I wanted to stop taking the sleeping pills that seemed to
drag me to depression. To avoid overthinking about my own troubles, I thought
reading a memoir would keep my mind busy with someone else’s struggle. So, I
went through my "Memoirs and Biographies" shelf on Goodreads. I saw this book
title, and I immediately chose it. What can ban negative thoughts better than a real story
from WW II can do? However, every time I picked up my e-reader to read my eyes hurt badly (I only had free time at night), and I couldn’t read more than few
pages. That was expected after spending more than 7 hours working on a
computer. As the story captivated me, I wanted to go faster with reading it.
Thus, I switched to the audio version of the book. It was narrated by Susan Adams,
who had a nice calm voice that brought Anne to life in my imagination.
