I am on a book reading high at the moment. Some great books have come my way and I thought would do a book related post in celebration.

Here are some things book lovers can relate to:

1. When someone asks you to pick out your favourite book from your entire book collection and they are still waiting for you to answer an hour later.
2. At a social gathering someone wants you to tell them about the book you are reading. Little do they know you are LOVING the book you’re reading. An hour later, you’re still talking about this book and they have wandered off to talk to someone else.
3. The pain of struggling with a book for 300 pages and then being rewarded with a terrible ending.
4. When someone questions whether you can read a book in a day…
5. People who borrow your books and return them dog eared and tea stained.
6. Trying to remember a time in your life when you didn’t have a reading pile / list.
7. Coming out of a bookshop empty handed and announcing to loved ones you must be sick.
8. When someone tells you the ending of a book you’ve been wanting to read for ages.
9. Reading a good part of your book in the bath and your glasses keep steaming up.
10. When someone you know reads the same book as you and questions how anyone could find the fictional love interest attractive. You haven’t been able to stop thinking about that sexy love interest and have had several sleepless nights re-reading the book’s spicy chapters.
11. Loved ones who sneak their books onto your bookshelves without conforming to your colour coding or design and think you will never notice.
12. The stress of not being able to find a book mark.
13. Starting a book with expectations of it changing your life.
14. Being haunted by the thought, ‘I didn’t bring my book / kindle with me.’
15. When someone says – ‘it’s just a book..’
16. When you see one of your best ever reads on a shelf in a book shop and you give it a knowing smile.
17. Reading your way through grief.
18. The good plot twists aren’t the ones that are wild left turns out of nowhere, they’re the ones that make all the other little things that didn’t quite add up before suddenly click.
19. Wondering how those characters from that fab book you read last year are doing now
20. When you try to explain..’I have been crying for the last I don’t know how many chapters…’