I suppose I should not be surprised if there are books in a library. That's what libraries do. They keep books that people can borrow and read.
Within that, I suppose again, I should not be surprised that it has my book 'The Dénouement: The 14th Dalai Lama's life of persistence'. Yesterday on a quick visit to Naperville's Nichols Library in downtown, I chanced upon my book, displayed on a shelf containing the works of local authors.
Although a copy of the biography also sits on top of my personal bookshelf at my home office, to see it in a library is a slightly different feeling. It illustrates that someone other than myself may be interested in it. This is, of course, contrived self-effacement because the first version of this book titled 'Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic" was first published by Doubleday/Random House in 2007 here in America and has since been published in over 20 languages worldwide. In fact, I just renewed my contract for reissue of its Arabic edition with a publisher in Beirut, Lebanon.
That said, it still felt charming to see a copy of the updated version with four new chapters in the Naperville Library. I did smile to myself when I saw it. I think I have earned a smile.
