"We form relationships with some of the books we read, but when does that connection actually start?..."

“We form relationships with some of the books we read, but when does that connection actually start? For me, more often than not, it can begin before I even read the first chapter. I’m a sucker for epigraphs – the quotations or excerpts from another book that an author chooses to place at the beginning of their own. Because it’s such a strange thing to do – an author inviting a comparison to another (perhaps better) book or writer. And because, I always wonder, exactly how big of an ego do yo...