"The Keeper of Lost Causes" Jussi Alder-Olsen

"She'd been lying on the floor thinking about books.  That was something she often did in order not to think about the life she might have had if only she'd made different choices.  When she thought about books, she could move into a whole different world.  Just remembering the feeling of the dry surface and inexplicable roughness of the paper could ignite a blaze of yearning inside of her.  The scent of evaporated cellulose and printer's ink.  Thousands of time now she'd sent her thoughts into her imaginary library and selected the only book in the world that she knew she could recall without embellishing it.  It was not the one she wanted to remember, not even the one that had made the greatest impression on her.  But it was the only book that had remained completely intact in her tortured memory because of the liberating bursts of laughter she associated with it."