Everyone knows bookworms are a pretty chill bunch.
HHAHA…HAHAHA HAHAHH HA…ha…ha.
Okay no we’re not.
Many (although not all) of us are actually quite highly strung and I think this is due to it being very common for bookworms to be overthinking, analytical little freaks. That or we were violins in our last life. But the fact is many bookworms are the opposite of chill. And it just takes a little nudge to send us into crisis mode.
So today I’m going to give you that nudge. Haha, no I’m going to shove you off the Existential Crisis Cliff with 10 questions we bookworms ask ourselves that will probably ruin our lives. Because I’m nice. And I like to run a wholesome and helpful blog.
Look if you wanted a calmer time you shouldn’t have come here — I AM NEVER CALM. I WAS CALM LIKE ONCE AND THAT WAS FOR 52 MINUTES BECAUSE THAT’S AS MUCH AS I SLEEP IN AN ENTIRE YEAR.
LET’S MOVE ON.
1. BUT HOW WILL WE READ ALL THESE BOOKS BEFORE WE DIE?
There’s nothing that makes you realise life is monstrously unfair than the fact that there are just MILLIONS of books in the world and you are not, in fact, going to read them all. I particularly love how useful this crisis is to have, because it wars with my “WHAT IF I RUN OUT OF STUFF TO READ” crisis which I have every second Tuesday. Do these two crises work together? No. Do I still have them both? Yes.
Super smart. That am I.
But I honestly sometimes scroll goodreads, or peruse the library, or look at my shelves, or conquer France and steal all their bookstores — and I just get hit with this knowledge that I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR THESE STORIES. And it’s important to collect all the stories of ever. What if I miss something that changes my life??
2. WHAT IF I GROW OUT OF MY FAVOURITE GENRE?
Hi. My name is HELP ME SIR and I used to read every YA dystopian that ever existed because they were the bread of life. I’m…I’m not sure what was going on in my head either except for the fact that maybe I wAS COMPLETELY DELUDED. But needless to say I would mostly rather dance on a pinecone and nest with bees than read dystopians now.
I’m wholly grown out of them. *
And this terrifies me a bit??? Because sometimes I read a type of book I THOUGHT I enjoy and then I realise I’m enjoying it about as much as a dessert without chocolate. Which is to say no.
I don’t want to grow up, pls, you cannot make me. IT’S REALLY SCARY AND DISORIENTATING TO GROW OUT OF BOOKS.
ME TO ME
* I mean HELLO I have my favourites. I will forever be complete soup in the eyes of The Hunger Games. Not that THG has eyes. But if it did, I would be soup mush of adoration.
3. IF I NEVER REMEMBER WHAT I READ THEN WHAT’S THE POINT OF READING IT?
This is the kind of question that keeps me up at night, along with me asking why Frodo just didn’t use the ring and become the next Sauron and prove that short people can be scary too.
And I know the answer is: IF YOU ENJOY IT, THEN IT’S FINE. Because hey I don’t remember every cake I’ve eaten, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good at the time. But yet I often look at a book and we sit down seriously for a candlelight supper and I just say, very softly, “I don’t even remember us together.”
Then I feel bad. Was our history together nothing? Were those brief moments naught? What monster am I.
4. WHERE DO BOOKMARKS EVEN GO?
Look. I sit down on my bed. I get comfy. I quickly check twitter to be sure my followers haven’t hit that “UNFOLLOW NOW OMG UGH” because I just tweeted that girls want pirate ships over boyfriends — and then I pick up my current read, put the bookmark down carefully, and begin to enjoy a cookbook an action adventure.
And what does my bookmark do in this time?
I DON’T KNOW, SUSAN. WHERE THE HECK HAS IT GONE. IS THIS VACATION TIME AND IT’S PACKED OFF FOR THE TAHITI ISLANDS? I DON’T KNOW. BUT I AM PEEVED.
Seriously, my bookmarks have the shelf life of half-priced milk. And I know my dog snacks on them and I also sometimes eat them. But where do they all go???? It’s like bobby pins, left socks, good inky pens, and that chocolate I was saving. I SWEAR THIS IS FRUSTRATING.
5. WHAT IF I NEVER FIND A BOOK AS GOOD AS MY LAST FAVOURITE?
You know when you read a really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really good book and you have two emotions which are: (a) OMGGGG IT WAS BRILLIANT AND MY LIFE IS 50 X BETTER, and (b) omgggg what do I read now the world is a bitter dark place like horseradishes upon the cold stones. *
Yes? You know that moment? ME TOO. It’s a pure crisis.
Like I literally despair of finding a book that will hold my heart like The Raven Cycle. It’s hopeless. And I just– I-I well I…
Okay thanks for the tissue, yes it’s okay, the flood upon the floor is just my DRAMATIC TEARS.
* Is this how the youths speak nowadays???? I’m trying to relate.
6. I STILL HAVE INSURMOUNTABLE GUILT OVER THAT BOOK I DAMAGED BACK IN 1764.
It haunts me, to be honest. I often tell people I’m a good person but IT’S A LIE because once I dropped a book on my bed and it bounced off 8 walls, three continents, fell through 9 portals, and landed on the floor with a bent cover. What kind of dark evil does that?
Me apparently.
7. WHY HAS THIS 16 YEAR OLD FICTIONAL CHILD DONE MORE IN 3 DAYS THAN I’VE DONE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE?
I mean, when I was 16…I don’t even know what I did. I think I wrote fanfic, collected Lemony Snicket books, got used to the idea I’d be 5’1 forever, ate a sandwich, and frowned a lot.
Everyone who’s 16 in books??? Yeah just rule a PLANET and smite a KINGDOM and save the WORLD or something.
I feel like an under-achiever.
8. HOW IS EVERYONE LOVING THIS HORRID BOOK??
It’s when everyone just looooooooves this book and then you read it and your entire opinions:
Most of my questions start with: “WHY.” And then I get all betrayed because the hype has obviously lied to me and humanity has lied to me…or am I just a disgruntled piece of orange pith and everyone has good taste and I’m here with BAD taste and iT’S ALL MY FAULT.
#CrisisIntensifies
9. WHY WOULD YOU LET BOOK SPINES BE MULTIPLE COLOURS?
Now this only applies to people who organise their shelves by colour. And not that I want to tell you how to live our life buuuut…you should be organising shelves IN RAINBOW ARRAY!! It is scientifically proven to make you happier and get more likes on instagram. *
But you know that moment when a spine is multiple colours? And they’re not even the same shade. So, is this book blue? Is it brown? Is it pink? I legit have a spine that is FIVE COLOURS and I just look at it and cry and ask why it’s so disappointing. Someone wasn’t loved enough as a coverless manuscript and is now having a teenage rebellion on my shelf.
Also yes. I admit. I totally disown spines with multiple colours on them. They can go sit somewhere else where they’re not ruining my aesthetic.
* The important thing, obviously. We don’t really care about your happiness. BUT LIKES (!!).
10. HOW DARE YOU LOVE MY FAVOURITE BOOK MORE THAN ME??
This pains me EXCRUCIATINGLY. Most people get nervous that they’ll introduce someone to a book and that person will hate it. then you have to bury the body and blah blah — it gets messy. Not to mention wastes hours of your day when you could be eating cake or learning Latin so you can speak to the trees.
HOWEVER. It is almost worse when this person because a Super Extremely Intense Fan™ and leaves you and your enthusiasm in the dust. Look, friend, I’m trying to be chill here and you’re making me look bad. You’ve read the book 76 times. I’ve read it once. You’ve collected merch. I’ve collected dust. You’ve named your first born after the protagonist. I’ve named my fish after the protagonist and then the fish went and died and now I just like even more super bad.
IT’S NOT A CONTEST, OBVIOUSLY!!
But my heart is a sneaky little black hole and likes to think it is. And why would I give up the chance for a bookworm crisis, hmm? THESE ARE FUN.
“I don’t even remember us together.”
This line was hilarious yet touching. 😁😘
I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT.😂
HELLO…Could it be? Could I be the first comment. EH, probably not!
BUT ANYWAYS, AGH this was all so relatable like 500% of my life is summed up in this post. might be a bit sad.
So, I SAY I’m a HP fan but everyone else has re-read the series, tweets about it for their whole life and all I’ve done is watch the movies and read the books and once did a blog collab with it. THEY MAKE ME LOOK BAD. crimes right here. They need to be arrested.
Last month I TRIED reorganizing my bookshelf into a rainbow array but MY PRECIOUS SERIES <3 I couldn't do it. I AM SORRYYYY. I think after ACOL , I was damaged and basically, no book compared and WHAT DO I DOoooooo?????? Book hangovers are cruel.
AND YES. All I do is eat food and read books and here someone is being queened and killing people (Well…I do that too but…) I MEAN HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY HAVE YOUR LIFE TOGETHER. Tbh, I'm lazy.
NEARLY FIRST COMMENT.😂😂 I’m honoured that it’s even a thing hhahah. And also YOU’RE WELCOME FOR THE LIFE CRISIS. I’m here to be kind like that.
And hah I’m the same with HP! I like it, but don’t *love* it like everyone else does so I just feel like a smol worm of a fan.
I actually DO keep some of my series together too, for sake of the families needing to be together *nods* I have a smaller side bookshelf for like my favourite author shrines (MY STIEFVATER BOOKS MUST STAY IN THEIR HERD).
Omg yes to everything in this post! And I always chop and change my favourite book genres. I used to be OBSESSED with dystopian too. Now, ehhh no. Also i used to be a MAJOR YA fan, then I avoided it like the plague, now I’m kinda getting back into it?? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, ME! Also YES to the last one. Someone not liking a book you’re talking about is one thing but then when they like it 10trillion times more than you it’s horrible! Ahhh!
And my bookmarks are always receipts, scrap pieces of paper or used plane tickets (literally) so I never lose them cause i always chuck them out when I’m done. Or just leave them in the book haha
So much feels for the dystopians. *HOWLS* I just feel like they’re all the same and the protagonist heroines are the SAME and I’m so done.😂 But YA I shall never grow out of. <3 It keeps stealing my heart!!
I seriously use random scraps of paper more than bookmarks too.😂
Gosh Cait, all of these are so relatable! I have entirely too many bookmarks but somehow there is never one around when I need it. So I end up using something weird like a hair tie or a gum wrapper to mark my page. Which completely defeats the purpose of buying a bookmark in the first place.
Book characters never fail to make me feel like an underachiever especially when I’ve spent the whole day at home reading on the sofa while they’ve been off having adventures and fighting monsters.
Bookmarks are just like little slippery villains. I use random scraps of paper more than them too. 😂😂 WHERE DO THEY ALL GO.
Great post! I recognise most of these crises. Being a bookworm can be hard! I have grown out of genres, definitely. But, I’ve also grown back into genres that I abandoned for a few years, so, it’s not all bad and hopeless (but I do worry, because I worry all the time about so many things). I do worry about not being able to read all the amazing books that exist and will exist on this world. It’s true about book characters doing so much in little time. I do worry about finding good books after I read an amazing book. I agree with many of your crises. Being a bookworm is not easy. I love your blog. I still really love my throw pillows I bought from your shop. They look great on my sofa near my bookshelves :D.
It is like 5000% logical for us to fret over not reading enough books. I mean, even if we read a book per day we’d still be behind?!? *sobs* People don’t appreciate the SUFFERING we go through for the sake of our books.
AND OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING MY STORE!! I shall just flail now. <3
Actually I find it even worse if people do NOT like my fav book as much as I do. It’s as if they want to hurt me personally. (Okay, maybe in my case that is because of my relationship with my fav book. I’m friends with the author and his wife, I’ve been there from the very beginning and his first public readings all the way through having a little scene in the movie adaption – that thankfully got cut out, I was horrible. I met most of my friends through this book and it shaped my life. So when people don’t like it, they REALLY do not like my life.)
Yours,
Taaya
Okay this is TRUE and I concede. When my smol sister doesn’t love the books she should love, I do find the need to murder her. It’s very unfortunate.
I’ll be totally honest: I resigned myself to the fact that I will die with books unread years ago. It’s quite liberating, actually, because now I don’t feel so guilty about acquiring books that I know I won’t read. I’m going to die amidst huge piles of unread books and I think that’s reasonable. At least it’s proof that I had aspirations in life.
At least we die amongst friends. *swims in sea of unread books and cries*
Ummmmm thanks heaps Cait… now I am spiraling even more than I was before… Number 1 is the BIGGEST problem in my life, and my biggest fear.
And I do have SO much guilt over the books I have damaged. I cracked a books spine once… like fully cracked it… and it was a hardcover… how did that even happen???? The book is clean in half????? I definitely avoid my guilt by blaming it on my sister.
And yes!! The different coloured book spines is why I don’t organise by colour. I really want to… but I just can’t deal with that.
THAT’S OKAY. THAT’S WHAT I’M HERE FOR. To provide quality content that terrifies us all and just makes us cry.😭 Good job, CAit, YOU MONSTER.
I definitely have #1, how in the world will I read all the books before I die? It just isn’t possible T.T and it makes my bookworm heart ache. #3 So much yes! I have a horrible memory, and I can remember if I loved, liked or hated a book but when I love a book and never remember anything else, it’s like…did it mean nothing? What kind of monster am I?
My bookworm heart aches SO MUCH. 😭 I just want to absorb allll the books. Now. Immediately. THE STORIES NEED ME.
This post made my neck hurt because I kept bobbing my head in agreement LOL!! I’m 52 and I am buying books more than ever, but some days (read as most days) I wonder what the hell I am doing. My TBR list is growing ridiculously longer every day, and my life is more than half over. However, books make me truly happy – I walk by my shelves and smile every time.. They calm me, they keep my brain healthy, they make me laugh, and they make me cry. They are an addiction that I never ever want to be cured of :).
THIS IS SUCH A LOVELY AND POSITIVE COMMENT!! Take THAT you life crises. Books make us happy…even if…we can’t…read them all. *goes back to sobbing*
Oh, I LOVED this post, especially the part about being high strung….at last, I have a reply when people ask why I am so easily wound up BAHAHAHA!
In all seriousness though this is a fab post
😂😂 I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT. We can be highly strung
violinsbookworms together.#4: it’s impossible, I tell you. I might need to hire nancy drew.
#5: I wonder if eragon could give the raven cycles a run for its money….but then, I barely know what the raven cycles are about, so I guess I can’t judge. yet. you can judge though! (just read eragon!!!) pleeeeeeaase, you’re going to love the dragon! so you pick it up, open it, and tell yourself that you’re going to just read a page. then another page. and another page. and another page. and another page. and then you’ve finished the book and you’re wondering how in the world could his readers even stand waiting multiple years for the next book. XD
Most crazily, ~Olive
Well maybe we’ll have to make a swap deal! You read The Raven Cycle and I’ll read Eragon?!😂
Hi 🙋 I have a crisis.
I want to read and review ALL THE BOOKS.
I want to write ALL THE BOOKS.
I am now setting up a jewellery Etsy shop.
I also Bulletin Journal
AND
I work full time…
Halp.
THIS IS SO RELATABLE.😭😭 I want to do read/write/review all the books and yet here I am, taking photos of them and getting nothing else done ever.
Aye I am plagued by these as well. Specifically bookmarks. like where even is that bookmark it was here but a moment ago and now is gone? I don’t understand. Please save me, And then I begin to wonder if the bookmark was even real or a figment of my imagination. On the days I feel particular motivated and make my bed or look beneath it I tend to find the bookmarks I have lost.
The paradox of being a bookworm: I have nothing to read but how shall I ever read all these books?
I really 10000% think that bookmarks have MINDS OF THEIR OWN and it’s a problem.😭 Where do they even gooooo?????
First point! Somebody needs to find the fountain of eternal life, so bookworms can save their loved ones and reading forever. Maybe an army of bookworms can do so…. Okay, this is an amazing book idea. Bookdragons that wants to live forever just for reading and fight for it <3
Anyway, that's my worst fear. That's why I need to improve my reading schedule.
And the eight point too! I read your review of Paper Princesses and a booktube review of a fellow italin book blogger, and I nearly vomited. But my italian fellow readers loved that book. No gif or meme con express my feelings.
THIS IS EXACTLY TRUTH. I mean why and how can we possibly die if we have books to read??? Hmm??? *clutches books and lives forever*
Eeeek, it’s kind of a worry when people really love a problematic book. Paper Princess really disgusted me. 😭 But I try not to judge people who DO love it.
I can relate to this so much! I get confused when I hate a book everyone else loves. Why can’t I see what they see? Also, the bookmark thing. I lose bookmarks ALL THE TIME.
It’s like we’re reading completely different books. WHAT IS THIS. *cries*
I relate so hard to a lot of these! #1, yes is like my biggest fear in life. #2 I haven’t had so much of a problem with because fantasy has always been my favourite genre and even though I’ve been branching out into more adult stuff along with my YA, I’m still really enjoying both. I get what you mean with dystopian though, I loved it for a long time, in fact it was only in the last few years I stopped reading it so much. I still do have a few dystopias though, so I haven’t grown out of it completely, I just read it less now. I want to get back into it a bit more because I’ve found some interesting ones that I missed in my dystopia phase and some new ones that sound interesting. I don’t have so much of a problem with #3, I have a pretty good memory, so I remember most of what I’ve read, plus I don’t read anywhere near as much in a year as you do, so it’s a little easier to remember 20-30 odd books as opposed to hundreds! I am constantly losing bookmarks, it drives you a little insane! #5 is totally me with ACOL, I’ve read some decent books since, but not anything that I’ve loved quite as much (my last read The Mime Order came pretty close though). I don’t really feel much guilt over damaged books? Most of my books have some kind of wear and tear tbh! #7, yes, I feel so inadequate when 16 year olds are off saving the world and I’m like, my biggest problem is what to watch on Netflix or what book to read next! #8, yes, this was me with The Fault In Our Stars, I could not for the life of me understand why everyone was loving that book. #9 doesn’t really bother me but I’ve always been an alphabetical by author’s last name orderer as opposed to a rainbow coloured orderer, as pretty as it looks, ordering my books that way would bother me! I have more of a crisis when I give someone my favourite book and they don’t like it, but I totally get what you mean about people loving your favourite book more than you do, I like to think that I’m the biggest fangirl of all my favourite books, though it’s obviously not true!
I have a LOT to thank dystopian for though, since it got me started on YA and basically book blogging.😂 Buuuut yes I’m so over it. haha. And I get scared I’ll grow out of YA one day! But that has not happened yet. So like *sweats and holds onto childhood*
I will just be here, though, envying your memory.😂
NOTHING COMES CLOSE TO ACOL. IT RUINED US. *cries*
All of these are so true! But seriously, HOW AM I GOING TO READ ALL THESE BOOKS BEFORE I DIE?! (I think I found a reason to chase immortality)
I THINK WE REALLY JUST NEED IMMORTALITY, LET’S BE REAL HERE.
How is this so ridiculously accurate? I love number one–there are always more books than there is time. And then I always want to reread them, too!
We NEEEED more hours! Years! LIVES.😂
Glad you managed to sneak in that little Latin reference 😉
I’M SUBTLE WITH MY PASSIONS AREN’T I? 😉 😂
Just a tad… 😂
I relate to all!!
I am so afraid of passing the years of my obsession with YA. I don’t wan to grow up and read crummy adult books because YA is so much better and UGH!! *having intense book crisis* *thanks a lot, cait* *love ya still*
I also have no idea where bookmarks go. I have them one second and I go to make myself a nice snack and it’s as if they vanish. I mean, I make sure to bring like 60 every time I get some, but they just disappear within the first day.
*but, honestly, who even uses bookmarks anymore when you can devour that beautiful book in your hands without stopping? hint: not me*
♥
*pats shoulder* There there, we can all freak out together. I live in DESPERATE FEAR of growing out of YA. *shakes in boots* I mean it hasn’t happened yet though so maybe I’ll be okay??? BUT OMGGGG.
And bookmarks are evil little things with legs probably. I think the gremlins come for them.
I have so many bookworm crises! I think the ‘I will never be able to read everything’ is the worst, although I’m trying to make my peace with that. It’s so hard when there are so many books and only one me and WHICH ONE SHALL I CHOOSE? Backlist vs release as of 3 days ago? PLS help. Other crises include: to buy or to library? To read or to socialise (how about socialise with characters?) To write that review or comment on someone’s blog or just watch YouTube and cry? My life is hard, very hard.
I tried to make peace with it once, but…no. I think I’ll search for immortality and just scream a lot in the meantime. *nods* SOLID LIFE PLAN, CAIT.
Also picking one’s next read is HARD and definitely another crises cause. *cries*
110% confirm that that is EXACTLY how the youths speak nowadays, good job Cait,
OH PHEW. I’m doing it right. The youths will accept me.
#7 is hilarious! Yes, how can 16 y.o. do more than us who are real live human beings?
I don’t lose bookmarks so much as I just leave them in books all over the house and then have to collect them when my supply seems low.
Obviously we need to get our lives together because these 16 year old’s are having WAY more of a successful time.😂
Ugh! I can tottally empathize! Especially with number nine! WHY! Honestly I try sooo hard for my shelf to be ‘perfect’ and flow easily from one colour to the next, but . . . It literally looks like I seperated them into sections. Red. Then Orange/Yellow, then Yellow/Green and so on. I blame it on those multi coloured spines!
Honestly these multi-coloured spines are just out here to be RUDE TO US and make our lives miserable. *cries*
THIS IS THE BEST BOOKISH POST IN THE HISTORY OF BOOKISH POSTS LIKE OMGGGG. I read it out loud to my sister and we #related.
You are amazing. ‘Nuff said.
xx Mackenzie
I’M SO GLAD. THIS MAKES ME ENTIRELY PLEASED.😂😂
WHAT IS ORANGE PITH THOUGH.
I identify with all of these! WHERE DO BOOKMARKS GO. THEY DISAPPEAR JUST LIKE SOCKS OR THE LAST SHREDS OF MY SOUL. I was so going to start using them but now I just try to memorize the page number and then I go to the wrong page and cry.
How can you not know what orange pith is?!??😂😂😂 It’s the pith…of an orange?!?😂😂
CAN WE JUST AGREE THAT BOOKMARKS ARE DARK MAGIC AND LIKE TO HAVE ADVENTURES ON THEIR OWN. I’m still looking for mine. I swear, I turn around for 2 seconds and they’re gone. *howls* 😂
So to be as concise as possible:
1. Yes. Totally Agree. This is why immortality needs to exist so that we have time to read all the books. And if I could be an omni-lingual immortal that would be especially helpful so I wouldn’t have to take time away from reading to teach myself all the languages that I need to know to read all the books.
2. Don’t relate so much. People grow and adapt and that’s part of life. Just think of it as learning to love a new genre until you’re well versed in ALL the genres. 🙂
3. And that right there is exactly why I started my blog. Well, that’s really the reason why I started using Goodreads because I would find myself reading a book that I had already read and not knowing it, but recognizing that the words were SO FAMILIAR. Never fret because the good ones always stay with you.
4. MINE DISAPPEAR TO. The only conclusion is that there is a plethora of bookmarks in Narnia.
8. I try my best to NEVER pay attention to what other people think of books because if everyone really loves it, I’ll want to read it, and if everyone really hates it, I’ll read it then too because I want to know what all the hype is about. Either way, I know I’m going to read all the books.
9. Maybe you could try turning them so the pages face out and then you can have an ivory/white shelf?
10. See, I disagree here. Nothing else gives me more joy than when people LOVE a book I recommend to them. Because I wouldn’t have recommended it unless I loved it myself and the book gave me joy, so share the wealth I say!
I’M SO GLAD YOU LIKED THE POST. Crises all round!😭😂 And I also use reviewing to help me remember more details actually.😂 And it works a bit?! Especially if I do spoiler sections and can go back and peruse them and go “Ohhh so THAT’S what the book was about”.
Perfect list! It’s like no one understood my life until now 😉
I UNDERSTAND YOU, SHELBY. 😂
I am still kicking my child self for thinking for some reason that it was a good idea to sleep with five books under my pillow at a time. Some of those books I still have now and the covers are torn right where they meet the spine 😭 Curse child me for having no concept of looking after my own things.
I used to be so obsessed with dystopian fiction too! I think the problem was that there were so many dystopian books being released at the same time and I ended up getting burnt out by all of them. Letting go of the genre was sad but somewhat necessary because there’s so many things I want to read. I used to have a huge thing for paranormal romance too, but I grew out of that because the genre ended up being so formulaic. I need variety in my life sometimes!
AWw, but Small Child You was trying to ABSORB WORDS!! So that’s kind of adorable.😂😂
And I totally agree with the dystopian…*shudders* I think they just all sound too much the same? And everyone was having these completely emotionless badass heroines who had NO FEELINGS OR SENSE OF HUMOUR and I cry and can’t relate. We just need the genre to be spiced up a bit!
I totally related to this list! I LOSE BOOKMARKS TOO! Seriously I used to have a whole BOX full of bookmarks, and now? I have like, one? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to use little scraps of paper as bookmarks because there isn’t a single bookmark in this house… Where the heck do they all go?!
I don’t understand why in pretty much all YA novels, the main character is 16? Like, what’s wrong with being 15? Or 17? Maybe you can only save the world while you’re 16 or something? Idk.
And I consider damaging books to be basically sacrilege. When I take a book from the library and a page is bent or something I just sit there like “I will find who did this and I will make them pay”. A couple of times I accidentally damaged a book I felt so evil afterwards.
Loved this post!
Indigo
Bookmarks have minds of their owns and are probably FULL OF BLACK MAGIC AND EVIL. *hyperventilates* Whyyyyy did they leave us. Didn’t we love them enough? *cries*
I always write 15 year old characters just to even things up.😂😂
Maybe they all run away from us to go to The Magical Land of Bookmarks to be with their families. XD
Growing out of genres in a frightening and life shattering thing. When I was younger my sister and I would write stories about kids who went to magical worlds (it was basically Narnia) and I thought “I will write fantasy forever!” and “Why do people even write books about normal people in the real world?!”
And now.. I still love fantasy. But… I just write stories about people eating sandwiches. WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?! I love my characters and I love my stories (except when they are difficult and awful and I want to throw them off a cliff), but even so I feel… weirdly ashamed. I’m looking over a story I recently finished like, “There’s not even any DEATH in this!”
I ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND A LOT TO THIS. I looove fantasy and won’t stop writing it, but like I’ve written so many contemporaries lately and I also love it??! All the sandwiches yes please and thank you.😂
I LIKE looking at rainbow bookshelves, but if I tried to do it myself, it would NOT make me happy, it would probably stress me out more because I am one of the people who CANNOT separate series LIKE THEY ARE A FAMILY UNIT AND OHANA MEANS FAMILY AND FAMILY MEANS NOBODY GETS LEFT BEHIND OR FORGOTTEN HOW DARE YOU. XD
Awww I understand.😂I do have a few series together on a separate shelf from my rainbow array.😂
Book characters are often so accomplished that they make me feel like a small piece of muffin whose only aspiration is to mold slightly.
There are so many, SO MANY books that everyone loves and I… don’t. Sometimes this makes me lose my faith in humanity. Then it occurs to me that perhaps I am taking book preference too seriously…
I am in a constant state of mourning because my favorite books have carried me up to the Highest Peak of Very Specific Standards and now I sit here and watch the millions of other stories struggle and fail to scale the unreasonably tall mountain. But I will not climb down to them because I am a cruel sponge who would rather wait another three thousand years for another book to fly up here and find me.
I read frantically to discover these worthy volumes, but there is not enough time in the world and I fear that I will die before I find them. There are so many arbitrary books to wade through to find the good ones and there is NO TIME.
I also live in fear that my favorite books and genres will cease to amaze me. I have to reread them periodically to ensure that this hasn’t happened yet.
The struggles of a bookworm are many.
Here here…what HAVE we been doing with our lives? Clearly nothing. *crisis intensifies*
And omg it’s so annoying to be the odd one out.😂 I just want to loooove what everyone else is, but some books. I can’t even.😂 And the better books I read = the more book hangovers. iT’S JUST NOT FAIR. GOOD BOOKS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE REWARDING NOT PAINFUL.
“I quickly check twitter to be sure my followers haven’t hit that “UNFOLLOW NOW OMG UGH” because I just tweeted that girls want pirate ships over boyfriends” – UM NO UNFOLLOWS.
I love that tweet.
It made my day.
Stop your worrying loff and drink up me hearty, yo ho. <3
I’m so glad you liked that tweet. 😂 It actually got a lot of likes so OBVIOUSLY I KNOW WHAT GIRLS REALLY WANT.
Your first one, so painfully accurate. But also 6,7 and 8. I’m sorry poor library book that I hid somewhere and didn’t return for a year when I was 16 and was all sticky and ugh. I have sinned. I did not know the pain of damaging books back then as I do now. Or that children’s book I decided to write and color in when I was a small girl. I just didn’t know! *wails*
Damaging books is SO PAINFUL AND FULL OF SUFFERING. 😭
what about the crisis of being asked to read a book for an author, new or no, and you really do not like the prefice, but they seem so happy to tell you about their book and you take pity on them and agee, then 1o pages in cannot face anymore… what do you do?
I think you will find all your bookmarks are with the odd socks for sure on mars!
OMGGGGGG THAT ONE IS AWFUL AND THE WORST. 😭😭Or when it’s an author you USUALLY love but then you hate their new book.😭😭
It’s raining on my face because i’m having a crisis now. Thanks, Cait.
YOU’RE WELCOME! I’m here to be a pain! Erm, wait…I mean…to be nice…
I can’t decide if you’re crazy or brilliant. I think brilliant. I had had a lot of this crisis…3,5 and 10 are the most frequent 😂 anyway just wanted to say that you’re hilarious and i really like your blog! 😊 bye from Italy!
P.S: bookmarks are mythical creatures that have the power to turn invisible
I am COMPLETELY with you on bookmarks being mythical creatures. It’s the only explanation.
ALSO I ACCEPT ALL ACCUSATIONS OF CRAZY BRILLIANCE.😂😂 Thanks for reading, Grace!!
I literally was just panicking the other day because I thought I would not have enough time to read all the books I want to read! (I mean I have like 100 books on my to-read list on Good reads and only have read like 90 books in my whole life! But its just so impossible not to keep finding amazing books and then clicking Want to read even though I know Im just adding to my stress of having too many books and not enough time!) Also the thing about 16 year olds in books vs 16 year olds in real life to SO TRUE! When I was 16 I did not have a world ending love, I wasn’t saving the world, and I most certainly don’t have alien super powers (At least I think I don’t) Nope when I was 16 I was most likely found binge watching Gossip Girl, Stressing out over spanish HW, and turning on the latest episode of the Bachelor. Ha! But then again the crazy improbable things that happen in YA novels is what makes me love them, so its okay!
DUDE, I HAVE 1000+ BOOKS ON MY GOODREADS SHELF. DO YOU SEE MY PROBLEM. *weeps* It’s not our fault the publishers just keep coming out with all these good books?!? Like we can’t ignore them. We must go broke and also get immortality.
#8 gets me. I’ve seen a glutton of books praised despite their terrible nature. People are allowed their loves, but when the book stinks, how can I ignore the stench? *cough* To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before *cough*
Bahahaha, that just goes to show how varied people are because I LOVE To All The Boys.😂😂😂😂 BUT SEE. IT’S SO WEIRD TO BE THE ODD ONE OUT. *cries*
I AM SO BAD WITH KEEPING TRACK OF BOOKMARKS… I LOSE ABOUT 20 A DAY… But this is why I’ve basically stopped using them all together. I just remember roughly where I was then flip til I find that spot (which is a good way to accidentally spoil yourself… opps)
I used to be a HUGE dystopian fan. That craze was a lot of what got me into reading! But now I don’t really touch those novels… They’ve just been done to death! I’d probably still give some a chance but it’d have to be by an author that I trust.
Hating popular books is one of the worst things about reading tho… I always feel bad, like I did something wrong… It makes me feel like I’m missing something when I can’t understand why everyone likes the book
NOT USING THEM SEEMS LIKE AN ACT OF WIZARDRY POWER THOUGH, ELISE, I’M A BIT IN AWE TBH. And I’m totally the same with dystopian! It got me into YA and I did love it so much…😂 buuuut, it just feels so boring now hahah. All the plots are the same?!
1-3 and 8 are all ones I identify with quite a lot. I like your explanation for how books are still important even if we don’t remember them. I think there’s a quote about that or something, like “I don’t remember all the food I ate, but it nourished me” and can’t we say the same about books? Our minds are bigger for reading them and that’s good.
I don’t lose bookmarks, really. What I do is stick them in the back of the book until I need them again.
I don’t think I’ve grown out of any series yet, though I did grow into the Series of Unfortunate Events. I really didn’t like them as a kid, but now they’re quite good in my eyes. I am afraid of growing out of series, though. Like, I know Twilight wasn’t a great series, but if I go back and read them again, I feel like confirming it will suck all the joy I had while binge reading them before the fourth book came out. 🙁 And what happens if I grow not to like fantasy anymore? WHO AM I THEN?!!?
Yes exactly see!! It’s like ALL still in our brains somewhere (I hope??😂) and these books all build us, even if we don’t remember every detail.
But, dude, I have to admit, you probably are a dark wizard if you don’t lose bookmarks. Just a fact.
Lemony Snicket books are TIMELESS. <3
I lost one of my absolute favorite bookmarks in a pizza place just two days ago, and I’m STILL bummed out. :((( Bookmarks are evil little creatures. They’re always disappearing, never to return again. #evil
But oh my word, #10 is my LIFE! I hate it when that happens! It’s definitely worse than if someone doesn’t like your favorite series/book! It sort of ruins my enthusiasm for a series, to be honest… XD
And #5?? I’m STILL trying to find a book that I love as much as The Lunar Chronicles. I don’t know what it is about that series, but it sustains my cookie crumble soul…
This post was hilarious and amazing, as usual!!!! XD I absolutely loved it!!
BOOKMARKS HAVE MINDS OF THEIR OWNS. THIS IS JUST FACT. *cries because all have left me again for a better life*
And omg honestly it’s just so rude when someone out-loves your favourite fandom. Like I brought you here??? Not to overtake me??? sit down and be polite omg??? 😭😂😂
EXACTLY!!! XD XD XD
I honestly relate to too many of these. I think half (okay, okay, more like 99.99%) of my bookmarks are stuck in Narnia/Oz/random boxes for the rest of eternity. One of my crises is “What if I can’t renew this library book because someone already put a hold on it????” Okay, I don’t take three weeks to read a book, but sometimes I literally just set it aside and forget I even got it until “Another patron has already requested that title.”. And then it happens again and again *trails off into infinity*. Great post, Cait!
Omg so many library dramas and tears too I HEAR YOU. And I always worry that I’ll reserve a book and it’ll be all like gross and old and sticky or something. 😭😭
Bookmarks have like small opinions of their own and IT’S NOT FAIR.
This is 200% accurate really. Especially about not being able to read all the books before you die. Like, that is actually extremely sad that there are so many wonderful books I will never get to read. ☹️ Multi colored spines should definitely be eliminated because they totally ruin the nice rainbow I have going on. I rainbowed my friend’s bookshelf recently and she had several books that were of rather unpleasant arrays of color, so I created a reject pile especially for them. 😂 I would have to add that I sometimes feel that I will eternally be in a reading slump and will never find another book that I enjoy. Now that is terrible. Thanks for the great post, Cait!! 😀
IT’S SOOOO DEPRESSING. We just want all the good stories?? Is this too much to ask?? *howls* Also I approve of you enhancing your friend’s life with a rainbow shelf. You are a quality human, that is for SURE.😂
I thought that no one else forgot things that happened in books, like as if you never read it! *Whew And I swear, I feel like there’s a fairy that steals bookmarks, like they do teeth. Lol
I’m like SO sure there’s a bookmark-stealing-gremlin out there. *wails*
Don’t bother with bookmarks. Just fold the corners over instead. Job done. (Why yes, I am a monster.)
*STARTS SCREAMING AND DOESN’T STOP FOR 98 YEARS*
First of all I feel the need to point out that your gif game is ON POINT TODAY. Well done Cait XD
Also that first one…literally has me freaking out all the time. IT’S SO SCARY???? Can’t we just live forever until we have read all the books of ever??
AHAHA I am terrified of growing out of fantasy. Obviously it will never happen. But IF…..MY ENTIRE IDENTITY WOULD BE A LIE. I can’t deal with that. NOT COOL.
How can all of these be so accurate, sir.
It’s THE WORST when a book is SO AMAZING that every book you read after it tastes like DUST. WHY. Is it better for books not to be amazing??? HOW DO I DEAL WITH THIS.
AND ERMEGERD THAT LAST ONE. I live in perpetual fear that someone will love my favorite more than me. OBVIOUSLY IT’S NOT A COMOPETITION. But inwardly it is just a little bit. Haha. *is so mature*
WHY THANK YOU. Disney gifs to the rescue. 😂😂
And #1 continually gives me severe bouts of screaming. Whatever did we do to deserve this torment???? I mean. And book-hangovers also are a special kind of bookworm torture. WHY DO WE HAVE TO LIVE SUCH A HARD LIFE.
HAHA I’ve actually just colour-coded my shelves and I totally feel you on the multiple colours thing. Like, do you HAVE to be blue AND pink? Where do I put you? Where do you BELONG? And why can’t I remember anything that happened inside of you?!
I can also relate to falling out of love with a favourite genre. Chicklit used to be one of my favourite things, because they were light and fluffy and a good way to escape. But lately I’ve found them to be really clichéd and I don’t really enjoy them anymore. I don’t know how I feel about this yet.
*cries with you for our pain* It’s just not FAIR. Why can’t spines just be one block colour? And also can series all have the same colour spines so they fit on my shelves? THAT’D BE GREAT.😂
It’s really terrifying not to enjoy something one used to love. 😳😳 Who are we. What have we become.
Number 1. ALWAYS. This is seriously such a big fear, especially since it’s actually impossible to read all the books we want to read before we die.
LOL to 3 and 4.
Number 5 doesn’t really scare me because there always seems to be another amazing book around the corner!
Number 8: *coughs*SJM*coughs*
And then coupled with teh fear of “what if that one book I skipped turns out to be brilliant?” 😭😭 This keeps me awake tbh.
HAAAAA YES to SJM on #8. 😂😂
5. WHAT IF I NEVER FIND A BOOK AS GOOD AS MY LAST FAVORITE?
I have five words for you; STAR WARS X-WING SERIES. they are unarguably the best books EVER! by Michael A. Stackpole.
Hahah, I have never seen Star Wars so I’m not sure they’d be for me. 😂
Okay, honestly I am SO GLAD that I’m not the only one who doesn’t get the sixteen year old protagonist thing. I’m 18 years old and the most heroic thing I do all day is get out of bed.
And I’ve honestly given up on bookmarks, I used to have like a million and now I’m forced to use like, an empty gum wrapper or something. WHERE DO THEY ALL GO?? Perhaps there is a greedy little elf that sits underneath our beds and eats them.
As always, your post made me laugh (which is alarming because I’m in training to be an evil mastermind and must not feel happiness. Ever.)
RELATABLE. 😭 I mean, the other day I cooked some food and didn’t kill myself OR the food so like…wow. *watches these 16yo save the world and feels inadequate*
(I’m so SORRY for ruining your evil mastermind plans. Just turn the laughter into like super evil laughter, yes??)
MY BOOKMARKS ARE ALWAYS DISAPPEARING. My mom said to me the other day “But you have so many bookmarks” and I was like “ACTUALLY NO BECAUSE THEY ALL DISAPPEAR”. I got this super cute astronaut bookmark the other where you move the bookmark back and forth and the astronaut moves and I’m so scared it disappears LIKE ALL THE OTHERS. I find them eventually but do you know how much time it takes trying to locate them?? I COULD READ A BOOK IN THAT TIME, GOSH.
And I totally feel you with the worrying about never finding a book as good as the last amazing book I read. I read A Darker Shade of Magic and And I Darken over three days and they became new favourites and I was so scared afterwards because I was thinking HOW IS ANYTHING ELSE EVER GOING TO COMPARE?! It keeps me up at night, Cait, I tell ya.
I know right??!?? I had this SUPER cool bookmark once with cakes on it. Where is now? Who can know. 😭😭
ZOMG THOSE TWO BOOKS ARE MY FAVOURITES TOO. I honestly am still searching for something as good as the ADSOM series.
I haven’t used bookmarks in years, but I really should because what I do is not that great. No, I don’t dog-ear (ugh!), but when I’m reading a hardcover with a dust jacket, I’ll use one of the flaps as a bookmark (the front flap if I’m near the beginning, the back flap if I’m past the halfway point). It doesn’t work very well with really thick books, of course, but it’s a lot easier to keep track of a dust jacket than an itty-bitty bookmark! Your flaps get a bit curled, but you’re eventually going to be pressing them flat again, anyway, right?
I always ditch the jackets but that is actually a really good idea for reading hardcovers! GENIUS.
I identify with all of the crisis. All of them.
Bookmarks just seem to dissapear in black holes ALL. THE. TIME. (i swear they have some kind of secret alliance with pens and hair ties because they all keep suspiciously doing that- it’s all just a big conspiracy). I once had to use my poor sleeping dog as a bookmark (it didn’t work out btw i don’t reccomand it).
And yes multiple colours on the spines should just be illeagal. Don’t publishers KNOW that it makes our lives harder 😭?
…now excuse me while I go contemplate my existance on the kitchen floor.
Oh gloriousness. We can have crises TOGETHER. *cries with you*
(I’m pretty sure publishers like us to cry though, between multi-coloured spines and like cover changes. AGH.)
I, too, made peace with not being able to read all of the things before I die. It just is, and I will survive it being so.
The idea of not enjoying books I used to really like does bother me, though. I remember when White Fang was about 8 or 9, and they were reading Charlotte’s Web in school, which was one of MY favorites at that age…and when I picked up his copy to read again, it just felt…kind of cheesy?! And I was horrified.
Also the thought of outgrowing a genre I’ve really been into bugs me. Considering I’m a picky reader as it IS, the idea of having even LESS to potentially read or at least try kinda scares me. :/
*cries* I AM NOT AT PEACE WITH IT. I NEED TO CONSUME ALL THE STORIES.😂
And that’s why I’m terrified to reread childhood favourites!! I re-read one a few years back and like HATED it and it was my whole childhood world??? So after that, never again.😂I’ll just keep my fond memories haha.
ack! I hope you don’t run out of books. That is a TRUE crisis right there. 😱😱
haha THIS IS SO ACCURATE!!! I don’t even want to think about all the books I still need to read. And I’m so scared I’m going to “grow out” of YA. I don’t think I will anytime soon, but I really hope I don’t as I get older.
I’m terrified of growing out of YA!! It hasn’t happened yet, but then occasionally I actually *choose* to pick up an adult book and like??? What am I??
#7! SO MUCH YES. It’s ridiculous. And it’s even more ridiculous when I look back and I’m like “Wow. X Character seemed so much older than me when I first read that book and now I’m older than them and this is terrifying.” Also, #10, which is why I sometimes hoard my favorites away from my sister (who doesn’t spend half as much time writing or on the internet as I do and therefore has time to reread books three million times.)
One other bookworm crisis: travel. What books do you pack? What if you pack the wrong ones and you want to read all the ones you don’t have? What if the books get damaged in transit? It’s a serious problem, y’all.
Rereading favourites three million times is A GOOD IDEA. I UNDERSTAND. And omg going back and thinking that “old” character is now like super young…😭😂 DO WE LAUGH OR CRY. IDEK.
Of course to the travel-packing-crises!! ALL THE TIME.
Brilliant post as always. I always buy bookmarks but I never end up using them. Either I lose them or they are too far away and I’m too lazy to get up and put down my book to get them haha.
I am always afraid that I’m going to grow out of my favorite genres, it hasn’t happened as of yet but I find myself being more and more picky when it comes to picking up books now, when before all you had to tell me was that the book was good and I’d read it.
Thanks for sharing!
Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
N’awww, thanks! 😂😂 And honestly bookmarks just walk away, I don’t even know what they think this is??? A free country??? SHAME ON THEM. (And I get so much more picky about books these days too. IT’S SCARY. 😭)
Gee. Thanks for ruining my week/month/year with all of these new worries. I’ll just be sitting over here in the corner, rocking back and forth, trying to hold in my sobs….
THAT’S OK. YOU’RE WELCOME. I’M HERE TO BE LOVELY.
I am always constantly terrified that I will be in the middle of a really good book when I finally kick the bucket. And I so wish I could live a FABULOUS and dragon filled book life. You know, maybe with less death, though. It’s the thing that keeps me up at night, other than my obvious procrastination of sleep in the first place (chronic night owl here). Awesome post, Cait 🤖
OMggg that is a true horror thought. DO NOT LIKE. *cries* I think we should just live forever to avoid that.
LEARNING LATIN TO SPEAK TO THE TREES YASSS! FINALLY SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS LIFE PRIORITIES! I ACTUALLY LOVE IT WHEN SOMEONE LOVES A BOOK THAT I LIKE, BECAUSE IT PROVES ME RIGHT AND SHOWS THAT EVERY ONE SHOULD LISTEN TO ME. ALL THE TIME. OBVIOUSLY.
Also, I too, happen to often hate the contemporaries tat everyone else loves. ughhh. so annoying, and then thy all just look at me with judgy judgy eyes like Church. I never loose my bookmarks because I have only TWO and they were part of an expensive book box and I am vv peculiar and sensitive about those cute lil’ magnetic thingies. one is a smol coffee cup thingy and then there is one that is a princess knight, like, there’s this girl wearing a knight’s clothes and it’s ADORABLE. i really enjoyed this post <3 xx
OKAY BUT HI, DEEJA, BECAUSE WELCOME TO MY BLOG BECAUSE IT IS 94% ME BEING OBSESSED WITH THE RAVEN BOYS. I THINK WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS. *SCREAMS*
HI! THANKS OMG I’VE BEEN READING YOUR BLOG THE WHOLE SUMMER, I JUST DON’T COMMENT THAT MUCH! LET’S!!! BECOME!! BEST!!FRIENDS!!! the RAVEN BOYS ARE LIFE AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE.
EXACTLY RIGHT?? WHAT MORE IS THERE TO LIFE EXCEPT FOR OBSESSING OVER THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CINNAMON RAVEN BOYS AND ALL THEIR MAGIC AND TERRIBLE DECISION MAKING THAT I ALSO LOVE.
YASSS
I can really relate with the “How can everyone enjoy this horrible book.” Man, I’m so picky. Of course sometimes I do like books that are somewhat overhyped but a lot of us do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ <– Had to copy and paste from the internet. xD
And I don’t really lose bookmarks. I guess it’s because I put them really close to me and always pick them up as soon as they fall xD And I like making them these days!
I GET SO PICKY TOO!! And then I get so confused why some books get really famous.😂😂
“…Or learning Latin so you can speak to the trees” — even if I didn’t understand the reference, I would delight in this phrase. Like, context aside, doesn’t it just make PERFECT SENSE that if you learned this dead language, the forest would deign to engage with you in conversation? I don’t see the lie!
Related note: I’m kinda with you on the Raven Cycle crisis. How is any other series* under the sun supposed to compare now? Why keep searching when this is all there is?
*Not counting the series I write myself, because they’ve obviously got the home team advantage. (The Raven Cycle merely adopted my heart. My book babies were born in it, molded by it. They didn’t see the light until they were already a man…)
YES EXACTLY!! Proof that Maggie Stiefvater is genius no matter what. :’) And omgggg HI I AM SUCH A HUGE RAVEN CYCLE FAN I CAN’T EVEN. It’s literally the most perfect series of my life. 😍😍
I have an existential crisis at the end of every month when I see how much I spent on books. Followed by guilt caused by the fact that I have read 3-4 of the new books. Everything you said is so relatable, especially the fear that you`re never going to read all of the books on your TBR, so what`s the point of life?
Oh my god *eats pink donut and tries not to get crumbs and icing all over self* what a- *fails* DAMN GOOD RELATABLE AS post. *cough cough* AS AN OFFICIAL BOOK FANATIC, SO MUCH YES.
I should cry right now. My life is complete.
I’M SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT.😂😂
Oh my god, this is all so true! And pretty hilarious too 😀
I’m glad you liked the post! 😂😂
I continually worry I won’t read all the books I want to in my lifetime. Or ten lifetimes. Why do so many books keep coming out? And why don’t more books come out? Why is it I fancy reading a very specific kind of books only to discover that’s not out there for me to find? Why can I never decide what to read? And why on earth is it the times I most fancy reading are the times I actually can’t? Life is hard and there are a whole lot of questions to be asked. How do bookworms not have breakdowns?
WE WILL NEVER CATCH UP AND IT’S KIND OF PANIC WORTHY. *cries* I just want to read all the good and excellent books of this UNIVERSE.
My god did you hit the nail on the head with all of these… but you know… the one that stuck out the most for me was the mismatch spines! Like my god girl I feel you totally… ‘well hello mr or mrs spine with purple, blue, black and every other colour under the sun on…. WHAT THE HELL AM I MEANT TO DO WITH YOU!’ – I legit have a ‘stupidly mismatched section’ at the bottom of my shelf away from my pretty rainbow!!.😂
WE CAN HOWL TOGETHER OVER THIS. *weeps* I just want my shelf to look awesome and conformed right?!? None of this multiple-colour-spines nonsense. Seriously.
You see some peoples bookshelves and just wonder how they achieve such a perfect rainbow… so pretty and defined… and then you wonder where on earth they’ve hidden those annoying little buggers with their mismatched spines that don’t fit in anywhere!! .😂
Either way though I’m glad I’m not the only one which a… dislike… for that! 😀
CAIT, these are all so completely accurate, I don’t even know what to say. Because YES. Okay, so I have *kind of* accepted that I will never be able to read all my books? But I DO totally fear that I won’t like YA anymore, or won’t like whatever genre, because come ON, I have like 1,000 books and what kind of nonsense would it be if one day I hated them!? I also REALLY feel you with the 16 year old out-adulting me. Happens in, oh, I don’t know, EVERY book I have ever read? And the multiple color spines are why I have given up on rainbow shelves. It is too hard and it makes me want to cry. And the ONE time I got them looking semi-decent, BAM, I read one of the books and the whole thing was messed up. These are some real struggles!
I’M GLAD. WE can have lots of crises together then. *hi fives and then has a meltdown* I am in mortal FEAR I’ll one day not want to read YA!??? But thankfully that’s nowhere near happening so hopefully it stays that way.😂😂
Every day!
😂😂
I’m so glad I found your blog. I call myself a bookworm, it’s even my email lol.
I’ve definitely changed genres many times and lost more bookmarks than I can count.
Looking forward to reading your book reviews.
Aww I’m so glad you found my blog too! WELCOME!! And I hope we all find our bookmarks someday.😂😂
I can definetly relate to the losing of bookmarks!!! I mostly have to use my phone, pens or random bits of paper now!! So irritating. Multiple colored books are such a pain, luckily I don’t have that many!!!!!! There is NO WAY I am dying before I have finished every book EVER. IT’S NOT FAIR Thanks for the post, it was great but also has made me really anxious…
WE WILL JUST HAVE TO LIVE FOREVER. Excellent plan I knoooow. And maybe we can spend some of our immortality in finding those darn bookmarks again.😂
#1 and #7 haunts me the most. Like it makes me cry just to think about having missed a book that I’m sure could really have made my life fantastic by a thousand degrees.
Or that I am already 20-something but why I am still not queen and taming dragons?Am I such a loser?😭
Okay, I’m out. You provoke ’em feelings in me girl. I’m not in crisis seconds ago. I’m not even aware of this crisis thing until you start naming it. Uuuugghhh!
(rolls on the floor😭😭)
I love your post! 😍
I know right!?? We need to read them ALL just in case we miss something aaaaamazing.
Have a nice crisis. 😭😭
it was all so true..especially the old sweet cake that we often forget and regret!!! I ve to agree with the constant annoy of loosing bookmarks
Bookmarks are such wily creatures that’s for sure. WHERE DO THEY EVEN GO.😂
I have grown out of a particular series of books. But I guess that’s just a part of growing up? (OMG WHY?!) Or changing tastes.
One crisis that I’m currently having is guilt over not wanting to share one of the books I’ve loved. Like that book is MINE and I shall not share it with anyone. I almost succeeded in trying to convince a book buddy not to read a series because, hello you cannot read it and like it more than I did. I forbid it. I was so close!
It’s so sad right?! Like I’ll go reread a childhood favourite and then it’s like…bleh and I ruin all those good memories. *SCREAMS* 😂
I have over 1500 books on my Goodreads to-read list and every time I look at this number I cry a little. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and I wonder if I will ever tackle it. I am also running out of shelves to put the books I own on and I have a lot of them in boxes and I need my own personal library yesterday.
THAT’S MY LIFE TOO. And I just add more and more every year.😂
OMG YESSSS. I literally only use one bookmark because I’ll forget all others. It’s a business card (that I found in the library copy of Ari and Dante ❤) and I LOSE IT ALL THE TIME. I’m lucky to find it a few minutes later, but still. I take it out, set it down, and bam it’s disappeared off the face of Earth.
YES THE BOOK SPINE THING. I recently organized my bookshelf to rainbow and one book has like purple and yellow and pink and orange and I’m like 😒 And hahaha yes! Everyone’s spouting quotes from books and talking about characters I don’t even remember and I’m just like… am I a fake fan. 😭😂
I’m pretty sure we’re all gonna have that TBR crisis. Which then makes us wonder why we’re reading at all and why we keep adding books to our TBR and OMG IS OUR WHOLE READING LIFE WORTHLESS AND POINTLESS AND USELESS??? (Thank you, Cait, for this existential crisis. 😂😭)
Those bookmarks totally have like lives of their own and do nOT include us. So rude. *cries and tries to find bookmarks* Mind you I do have a BOX of bookmarks but I insist on using the same 2.😂
I think about how much a teenager does in a YA book all the time.. I mean, how are they like traveling across the country or meeting celebrities or falling in love just in a weekend?! What is happening here? What did I miss when I was 16?
“How dare you love my favorite book more than me??” is definitely one of my life problems too. Like right now I’m forcing my family to read Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and suddenly they’re super obsessed and I’m just like…nope.
“How is everyone loving this horrid book?” is super relatable too. (*cough* City of Bones *cough*) (Just kidding Cait…kind of 😉.)
Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous post! <3
It is hard!! It’s like “NO I AM MORE OBSESSED THAN YOU. I HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER” … which is of course not a good way to be a fangirl, but like sometimes it’s hard to help ourselves?!?? *cries* 😂😂
I identify with soooo many of these. Though, my bookmarks do not go missing! Yay my bookmarks!
And some of these don’t really throw me into much of a crisis…. I have gone through so many bookish phases, I don’t worry so much about growing out of my favourite genre (I like obsessively ate romance novels for at least a year in high school…)
I do, however, constantly question my life choices that result in me not having the time/energy to read way more books than I currently do. I made supper reservations for tomorrow night! What was I thinking?! That is like THREE HOURS of lost reading time! UGH.
(but it is my favourite restaurant and I actually DIES for their delicious delicious food.)
A crisis I struggle with the most though… rereading. I love revisiting my loves. But then less time for new loves! Ack. I CONSTANTLY want to reread books I have super enjoyed. But I also want to read 70 million new books. I just. I can’t. And right now one of my patients in barking at me and it isn’t helping me with this crisis AT ALL.
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I take every opportunity to have a crisis, Maggie. *nods* THIS IS JUST ME. But I’m totally with you on like skipping outings to just read…that’s the logical thing right? That’s how we’re going to SURVIVE OUR TBR PILES. *sobs and runs away from mine*
And rereading is a crisis for sure! I’m actually annoyed I forgot to put it on the list.😂I LOVE rereading but I feel so guilty hahha.
I’M ONLY AT THE FIRST QUESTION AND I’M ALREADY PANICKING WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS CAIT
I once found a book on my goodreads shelf that I had rated 5 stars. Apparently I loved it?? I DON’T REMEMBER IT? Like I know I read it, it’s on my physical bookshelf. BUT WHY DID I LOVE IT. WHY DIDN’T I REVIEW BOOKS YET BACK THEN
Ohhhh why do you have to remind me of all the books I damaged whyyyy
Honestly Cait I came to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now
Knowing that more books will be released after I die – likely sequels I really NEED to read – is haunting me, too, Cait. I need to get a move on with that immortality thing.
I just worried that I was losing my love for high fantasy!! :O Then I read A Torch Against the Night and now everything is well again. I mean, the hell was I thinking? Losing my love for high fantasy?? I don’t think so. (Since that’s also the genre I write this would be even more tragic)
(I also just wanted to say that I love commenting on your blog because it accepts my website and doesn’t refuse to link PROPERLY like most other sides, and I appreciate that a lot in a blog.)
The only thing we can do, obviously, is just go ahead and be immortal. *nods* This will fix it all.
(Also my blog APPRECIATES AND LOVES YOU. Just so you know.) 😂
Obviously. I’ll get back to you the moment I find a way. *makes cakes instead*
(That’s good, because I appreciate and love the hell out of your blog, too <3)
Waiting for a sequel to a book you loved to come out
Oh yes! That one is tough!