Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Signs You're a Book Lover
1. When packing for a trip and everyone else is
deciding what clothes to take, you are deciding what and how many books you can
manage to cram into the suitcase, or download onto your e-reader.
2. Before taking a car trip you make sure to have
three or four audiobooks queued up on your smartphone (Audible and/or Overdrive
accounts) so that everyone in the car can agree on a book to listen to while on
the trip together.
3. When arriving in a new city you immediately scope
out where the used bookstores are located and visit any Indy bookstores in the
area.
4. You always buy something when you visit a bookstore
because you want that bookstore, and all bookstores, to survive. (I am
wondering if bookstores are still open right now since they are obviously a
necessary business, vital to one's health and well-being.) You often give books
as gifts and always give books as baby-shower gifts.
5. You know how to place books on hold at your public
library and visit it regularly to pick up those books and to peruse the shelves
for new arrivals and for 'Lucky Day' books, which, as the name implies, you are
lucky you found on the shelf because they are a 'hot' book right now.
6. You can coach your friends how to check out e-books
and audiobooks with their library cards even if they don't want to travel to
the library and they often call you when they forget how to do it--instead of
calling the librarian on-duty, who is getting paid to give that advice.
7. You have a Goodreads account where you keep track
of all the books you have read, want to read, and are reading. You spend a lot
of time on this account. When you read another book blogger's good review you
automatically add it as a TBR on Goodreads.
8. At parties and other gatherings you often find
yourself talking about books with whomever will spend a few minutes discussing
them with you. And you often claim knowledge that you gained by reading some
book or another, but you can't always remember the title or the author.
9. You are in one or more book clubs. You will
schedule your other activities around these meetings because you don't want to
miss the group discussions because you have your opinions you want to share and
enjoy being around other people who like to discuss books, too.
10. You read book reviews, end-of-the-year best books
lists, award book lists, and book magazines, though nothing is quite so good as
a word-of-mouth recommendation. And you are often asked by others what you
think they should read next.
Extra: You also enjoy reading, like I am right
now, books about books. I am currently reading The Books of Books: Explore
America's 100 Best Loved Novels as featured on the PBS series.
What did I miss? What are the signs that you're a book
lover?
-Anne
