When one is a bookworm, one tends to spend a lot of time mentally screaming.
Or physically screaming. Depending on how much you want your family to keep you instead of packing you up into a small hatbox and shipping you to the middle of Atlantic and then going to family reunions like “Mildred?? What Mildred?? Haha, we didn’t have a child of that name at all!!” If you DON’T want that outcome from all your book-induced screaming — you, like me, probably spend a lot of time screaming in your head.
Which leads me to list 10 bookish things I often find myself giving vague pterodactyl screams about all the jolly time. Which is a topic I’m purely writing about because twitter requested it.
And yes, I did a poll, and it mildly concerns me you’d all rather hear about me screaming instead of telling you how to be polite on the internet (I think you need the latter post clearly) but I am nothing if not magnanimous. SO LET’S TALK ABOUT ME AND SCREAMING. Although, I do admit, most of my pterodactyl shaped shrieks do happen only internally. I save up all my all caps for you online, fiends, and in real life my face has enough emotion as the child of Spock and piece of bread.
LET’S MOVE FORWARD!
1. DECIDING WHAT BOOKS TO BUY.
If you’re on a tight book buying budget, then you probably spend a lot of time agonising over which books to prioritise. This is for many good reasons, including:
- “What if I buy a dodgy one with my precious few dragon coins???”
- “But do I REALLY need that new release when I’ve been hanging out for that backlist one??”
- “I want to read it yet THAT COVER IS AN INSULT TO EYEBALLS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING SAURON’S.”
- “But should I not buy that 500pg beast instead of the puny 250pg book and get my money’s worth?”
- “WHAT IF I CAN NEVER BUY ANOTHER BOOK AGAIN SO THIS NEEDS TO BE THE BOOK I WANT ABOVE ALL OTHER BOOKS.”
- “Do I want it. Or do I want the cover.”
- “I read it as an ARC a while ago but I want to own it so I can love it. But??? Should I???? Shouldn’t I buy something new??? EXCEPT WHAT IF I DON’T LIKE THE NEW ONE WHEN I KNOW I LIKE THIS OLD ONE?????”
I literally spend 94% of my book buying time howling at the sun. I’ve probably offended the sun by this point because it has no clue what it did to offend me so but I just…??? I can’t??? DECIDE??? OH MY FREAKING GOODNESS. It’s so hard to want them all and yet be able to by, like, two.
2. SERIES FINALES.
Hello, my name is Cait, and I’m a Chronic Series Procrastinator. I can’t even list how many TV shows I’m up to but haven’t watched the finale (STARTING WITH STRANGER THINGS OMG) and I frequently read the first book in the series and love it and therefore never read anymore ever.
I don’t liiiiiiiike being LEFT ALONE.
Attachment issues? Me? Don’t be ridiculous. Also yes.
You should’ve seen me when A Conjuring Of Light came out. I think I ate my mailbox out of nerves because I’m also that anxious puppy you leave home for 2 hours and they destroy the whole house.
3. WRITING SEQUEL REVIEWS.
Writing reviews is hard enough, but let’s just make it more complicated with THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE THAT ARE SEQUEL REVIEWS. Because how do you review them without spoilers?!? How do you review them and not have, like, 2 people bother to read the review and watch your page stats spiral downwards faster than a staircase??? How do you summarise things for people who have read book one but yet don’t want to be smacked in the face with too many details???
Who’s screaming? I’m not screaming. That’s…that’s a nazgul you hear in your backyard. #legit
4. WHEN PEOPLE LIKE YOUR BLOGGING THINGS.
This is the good kind of screaming!! THE GREAT KIND OF SCREAMING. And you creatures of my pineapples and darkness have NO IDEA how much I internally holler when you like my posts or tell me you enjoy my nonsense or buy something from one of my stores. Or follow me. Or compliment my writing…like holy pistachios, just pause a minute while I take you by the shoulders and shake you fiercely and say IT MAKES MY DAY WHEN YOU SAY YOU LIKE MY WRITING.
LET ME GIVE YOU CAKE.
OR A PLANET.
OR MY FIRSTBORN FISH BECAUSE I’M NOT HAVING KIDS. HAHA. BUT I WILL HAVE A FISH SOMEDAY! AND IT WILL BE NAMED AFTER YOU!!
I LOVE YOUR FACE. EVEN IF I’VE NEVER SEEN IT.
OMG.
And that’s not to mention when an author approves of something of mine. Hold me.
5. CHOOSING MY NEXT READ.
It’s like choosing which child you’re going to spend the day with, while the rest of your children get to languish in the darkness of the attic with only gruel for sustenance and no glimpses of the golden sun. Why must I make the cruel decisions?? WHY MUST I MAKE DECISIONS AT ALL.
FYI I am the person who spends 7 working days figuring out what flavour of ice cream they would like.
6. HUMANS.
JUST KIDDING.
I may be an antisocial introverted book dragon fiend, BUT I do like you creatures of the internet. Most of the time. I know we’ve all seen humans online that we kind of just stare and blink at and wonder whyyyyy they are speaking because please stop. I also encounter and unfortunate amount of trolls. Usually I just laugh or ignore them or whine to my family about them. BUT SOMETIMES ARGHHHHHH.
Cue sporadic
bursts
of
shrieks.
If I had a dollar for every time I had to explain to someone on Goodreads that IT’S OKAY TO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS WE ARE NOT A HIVE MIND then I would have enough money to fund my dire book buying habits and thus not be panicking over #1 of this post.
7. FINDING A PUBLISHED BOOK THAT’S SUPER SIMILAR TO YOUR OWN (UNPUBLISHED) BOOK.
If you’re an unpublished writer with grand dreams in your starry eyes, this has probably happened to you and ended with you staring at the book in your claws while mentally dying.
NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH MY IDEA. IT’LL LOOK LIKE I’M COPYING EVEN THOUGH I WASN’T. I NEED ICE CREAM AND PROBABLY TO SCREAM FOR 93 YEARS.
8. RECOMMENDING YOUR FAVOURITE BOOKS.
Recommending books seems like a super good idea until you realise that if they hate your favourite book, can you even associate with them anymore???? I recently forced with death threats and by knife point asked my smol sister to read The Raven Boys — AKA MY FAVOURITE SERIES OF EVER. I also realised if she didn’t like it, I would have to probably bury her 9ft under the Nile. *
IT’S ACTUALLY TERRIFYING RECOMMENDING YOUR ABSOLUTELY MOST FAVOURITE BOOKS OF EVER. I have regular crises about it. Like don’t even look at me if you don’t like The Raven Boys. I just start crying on you and you’ll get drenched. Wear a raincoat if you want to break the news to me.
* GOOD NEWS! She liked it!! She didn’t like Ronan, however, which means I have raised her wrong since he is obviously the best character of them all. I may beat her upon the head with a teaspoon and then lock her in the basement. But other than that, things are going well.
9. WHEN IT FEELS LIKE YOU’RE READING THE SAME BOOK OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
This is a sign of a well-read bookworm! And it’s also a huge tragedy! Like, woah mate, the amount of books I can predict now because they all sooooound the same?!? It’s a lot. I even watched the Fantastic Beasts film with my family recently and spent the entire time saying what was going to happen 5 minutes before it did. *
I just know things.
But I get a vague eye-twitching sensation when I predict the outcome of books too often. Cue rusty screams when another overused and tired trope comes out to play. I’m so 5999990.1% very much done here.
* They all wanted to smother me??? Which is weird???
10. WHEN YOU DAMAGE YOUR OWN BOOK.
BECAUSE WHAT KIND OF MONSTER AM I. And as much as I’d like to pretend this has never happened — it has. Even just recently while taking bookstagram photos, I realised I’d put a hardcover book on a pile of ditched dust jackets. THEY ALL GOT CREASED. I BELONG IN THE PIT OF DESPAIR.
At least when someone else wrecks your book you can then destroy them and you and the book can be appeased. When it’s yourself??! What even can you do??? Just scream honestly and then move to Guadeloupe to get away from your guilt.
what things about books make you give vague pterodactyl screams?? and are you more of the “screaming in my head” type of bookworm or do you actually need to vocalise it??? DO YOU RELATE TO ANY ON MY LIST? CAN WE HOWL TOGETHER???
Buying books is HARD HARD HARD. Also choosing what to read. I try to chill about damaging books and not be precious about it, but really it depends on the book. Like I had a secondhand copy of divergent that I just made a lot of nots in because the previous owner did too, and I like making notes in books, but if you hurt my Old kingdom books (which you should read) then I am coming for you (My brother got lirael wet! brb crying. Also, I don’t like it when people don’t love the books I love. I recently lent a friend Daughter of Smoke and bone, and she didn’t like it, which is tragic. The screaming is often literal screaming.
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I seeeee you with that subtle Sabriel hint. 😂 I’M GOING TO I SWEAR. (She says like every single day and yet…still has not read it. *slaps self*) Also it’s really hard to just function when people you like don’t like the books you like. I just…I then have to question their taste and brain function??? It’s terrifying.
The teaspoon hurt. It’s dark inside the basement.
Be quiet or I’ll come down there and beat you.
You two are too hilarious. XDD
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ARE YOU SURE.
NUMBER 7. Ahhhh I’ve had this happen with some of my previous WIPs, and I was utterly crushed. It makes you wonder what the point is of even writing that story and just utterly deflates you. I’ve gotten over it now (mostly). 🙂
And choosing which book to buy…it is one of life’s hardest decisions.
Awesome post! <3 😀
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I KNOW RIGHT?!💔 Like let me just melt into a puddle of nope because gahhhhh. 😭😂 I had it just happen to me recently but I’m hoping they’re still different enough that I don’t have to take my story back to the drawing board. *fingers crossed*
I’ve noticed that now I live alone I scream out loud and also talk to the book – because they can TOTALLY hear me! I can’t help it. After YEARS of keeping it on the inside – NO MORE! Now all shall hear my screams of frustration and happiness while I read. Sadly my partner seems to worry about me when I go from laughing like a maniac or crying like a long lost dinosaur who discovered all the other aweso-saurs are finito. Sigh.
But that to me is a sign of a good book – one that you get totally immersed in.
OF COURSE THEY CAN HEAR YOU. And hopefully mend their dreadful scream-inducing ways. *nods sagely*
WHAT SHE DIDN’T LIKE RONAN?
I mean, if she has only read the first book, his amazingness and badassery and altogether perfection doesn’t shine as much. BECAUSE DREAM THIEVES IS WONDERFUL AND IS ALL ABOUT RONAN OBVIOUSLY.
Anyway…. I agree, it’s completely happy flails when people say they like my writing. Though, they’re also very likely to point out typos in mine (am such a terrible typist). And that just makes me sad, because then PEOPLE WERE READING TYPOS and oh my gosh.
I can’t tell you how many things I have predicted. I predicted that whole reveal thing at the end of Fantastic Beasts… five minutes into the film. And if you read A Torch Against the Night, I saw the strange thing at the end about halfway through. IT IS A CURSE and people don’t believe me.
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Oh oh don’t worry I shall force her to continue reading the series BECAUSE HE GETS EVEN BETTER AS EVERY BOOK GOES ON (although tbh I still think he’s perfect in the first book). <3
And my books are ALWAYS full of typos.🙈🙊😂 Even after I edit. It's downright embarrassing haah.
Omg I'm glad Fantastic Beasts was actually predictable and I wasn't just being annoying haha.😂 I didn't read Torch Against the Night though because I wasn't too impressed with the first book, whoops. It is a curse though right?! I hate spoilers and here I am spoiling it for myself.😂
I vocalize SOME of it, which means I sound like a baby nazgul instead. it drives my siblings crazy, but dad doesn’t mind because he never happens to be in the room when I screech, and my mom understands my pain. most of the time. (there was that time when we’d just watched Rouge one, and we were all sobbing and crying and wailing over how cool and awesome and awful it was, and mom mercilessly sent us to bed because it was 10:00 pm and she wanted some quiet. easy for her to say, she didn’t watch it! instead she planned our school, how fun is that??? not at all fun, when there is rouge one to watch!!!) but anyway, I was especily driving my sister crazy last night, because we’d watched some ninjago, and I was all fangirling and making theories for what would happen next, and she was excited too, but tired. no fun zone. >:[ (yes, i’m a little old for ninjago, but only a year or so! and I don’t see why more older kids watch it, some of it is a little deep for small children. also not to mention, watching it is very addicting. 😛 ) heh heh. (Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd no I’m not obsessed with Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd Lloyd) (it drives one of my friends crazy, she can’t stand Lloyd, but she really likes Cole, and I can’t stand him! XD ) (this comment started with booky fangirling, why am I talking about ninjago?) I’ll stop now.
Most crazily, ~Olive
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*horrified gasp* *clutches heart* you MUST watch star wars! start with A New Hope, since that came first.
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YES TO ALL OF THESE BUT ALSO MOSTLY #5. I am so TERRIBLE at making decisions and choosing another books is just too hard. IT’S TOO HARD CAIT. And then when I eventually start reading the book I’ve chosen I have constant anxiety about not having made the right choice.
Us bookworms live a tough life, man. In other tough life news, I STILL haven’t finished The Raven Cycle. I’ve read the first two books, but the second one was in a time when I was very busy so I could only read a few pages here and there which doesn’t make for a good reading experience. SO I’VE COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. I’m going to binge read all 4 of them soon. SOON. (like probably in a year or 7 :'( ). SOOOON.
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IT IS TOO HARD, ANNE!! I HEAR YOU!! *weeps quietly with you* I just should try and read 9 books at once, right?? Surely that’ll help??
BUt come now. *chases you around with a stack of Raven Cycle books until you read them* THEY’RE SO GOOD AND BINGEING IS A GREAT IDEA ALSO THE AUDIOS ARE FANTASTIC IF YOU LIKE AUDIOS.
The one about seeing that someone’s already written your book- YES. So frustrating. (That said, there’s only so many original ideas out there . . . it just means you have to make your version BETTER.)
Also, yes on the recommending new books thing. I love recommending it, but at the same time, it’s mildly terrifying. (Equally terrifying is the “What if they love it more than I do?” option, which is kind of what happened with my sister and some of my favorites, though that’s because she doesn’t live half her life on the internet.)
Anyway. Awesome post!
It’s true!! And it’s not like any idea is ever IDENTICAL…it’s just always so annoying. Like I had it first but they got published first.😭😂
I actually recommended my favourite show to someone once and they turned into such a mega-fan that I feel like a small piece of lettuce now.😂
I still haven’t read the Raven Boys. I will at some point, I promise! I just…. there’s so many books in my TBR *cries*
BUT THESE ARE ALL SO TRUE I GET WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM. Especially the buying of the books. We go to stores and I spend an hour gathering books and putting them back until my family just goes crazy and says “BUY SOMETHING ALREADY!” and then I have to. Because they don’t understand *bookworm sobbing*
And I have honestly done 98.3% of these. It’s awful. 🙁
BUT THE RAVEN BOYS ARE 50000% MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OTHER BOOK EVER, SO GET ONTO THAT, FLORID. I SWEAR YOU’RE LIFE WILL BE INFINITELY BETTER.
And being rushed into decisions is not okay, amirite?😂
Honestly I’m here because your tweets and books tag ram give me life, but now I’must in love with your blog and I NEVER READ BLOGS WHAT IS THIS MADNESS. So yes. I a, very much subscribing to this thing that you write. Thank you.
WELL THIS JUST MADE MY DAY 500000% BETTER. If you think there’s madness on my twitter…mwahhahhah jUST WAIT.
reviewing sequels is the hardesstttt. what do tell the people who haven’t read the book yet without spoiling them??
also, i totally get you on the book buying thing. it takes me forever to decide what to buy next (it ends up being a huge production with pro/con lists and whatnot)
WHAT YOUR SISTER DIDNT LIKE RONAN?! noooo he’s my very favorite!!
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It’s so so hard!! And then no one reads the review and GAH IT’S SO DEPRESSING. *shares cake of sadness with you*
Also omg I can’t even with my sister sometimes. Hopefully she changes her ways or, you know, I’ll destroy her or something nice and sisterly.
Loveeeee this post!!! I scream inside and sometimes it js soo loud in my head that I wonder if I actually did not do it for real in front of people. Which is really distressing…
I am currently reading The Raven Boys and I adore it so far like how did I not pick up this booo earlier. FYI I am obssessed with Maggie she is amazingly amazing human being and her writing is superb. For now I am attracted to Adam but still have long time to go until I can pick up my fav character.
I do pterodactyl screams over most of tbe things you mentioned above and the most terrifying one is when someone or I hurt a book that I cherish. Feels like your soul is being tortured and the devil is trying to steal it from you and you feel just helpless. Additionally I buy physical books only when I have read the ebook version and lovee it soo much that I MUST HAVE IT then i scream internally and I need to go check my organs they might have been damaged by now.
Anyway pterodactyl scream for your awesomeness and for your books to come!!!
But we have good cause to scream all the time tbh. WE LIVE A TOUGH BOOKWORM LIFE OMG. And ajfdkalfd you’re reading mY FAVOURITE BOOKS EVERRRRRRRRR. *flings confetti in your face* Just love ALL the boys. That solves the problem.
Honestly actually hurting a book is like stepping accidentally on a puppy’s paw. Such a monster omg I can’t even.
So, one day I had a brand new Bible- beautiful cover, thin little pages- and I put it on my couch for a Bible study I was hosting that night. My friend came in, plopped herself on the couch and right onto my new book. She bent the cover in half, with a big crease across the whole corner, then a lot of the pages were wrinkled and folded. She knows that I “take care of my books” so she laughed and then apologized. Definitely a pterodactyl scream. I don’t know if it was out loud or not. lol
OH THAT IS HORRIBLE. 😭😭😭 I suppose you can’t really beat her to death with the Bible, so at least lucky for her for that. But aghhghghgh that’s tragic though.
Wait, was that a gif of Steampowered Giraffe?
I have no idea. 😂😂 I just use giphy.com.
Writing sequel reviews has to be the worst thing of all time. Period.
AGREEED. We shall just cry and reward ourselves with ice cream now for even thinking about attempting it. 😭
Or or or ! (Bc I do not pay attention to the world) when I walk around a bookstore and see a new book from an author-love of mine OR be so oblivious that I didn’t know the book I just read and loved was ipso-facto a *series* and now book 2 is starring me in the face…. or book 3 and 4 as well. Those are fun days. Many a pterodactyl happy dance has been done in ‘Chapters’ (canadian bookstore) I am proud of it! Plus when there is no staff around and I eavesdrop on convos about “what is this book about?” and then I butt-in with all my wonderful YA knowledge and opinions and THEY LISTEN TO ME! *strike a cool pose*
THAT IS SO AWESOME. You are a walking-book-recommender!!😂
More often than not, I am the screaming in my head type, purely because my family won’t get it (either they don’t read what I read – my husband – or they aren’t old enough to read what I read – my 14 y/o). Sometimes I whine and opine online, simply in the hope of finding like-minded individuals. And yet, not a single one of my online community seems to have read Warriors?! Occasionally I get blog visitors that are part of that fandom and understand the INTENSE FEELS, even if they’re behind in the series. Usually Warriors is 90% of my screaming – internal or external – anyway.
I’m glad you have a series like that though!!😂 Even if it’s painful to howl alone. Tbh that was me with The Raven Cycle for AGES until it got famous. You just need to convert everyone in the world to reading it!!!
What has me internally screaming pretty much every second of the day is my upcoming blog review schedule. (I’m not talking my TBR…But the books that MUST be read and reviewed by xx date or I will be banished from the face of the planet.) (The Doctor will save me it’s ok) I am not a SUPER fast reader and have two small children demanding food all day. I AM really good at pacing and scheduling….but then stuff comes up. And then the books that are on my TBR stack (island) just look at me pitifully and mock me.
OHhhh you are AMAZING to be balancing all the blogging things and two hungry children. I babysit my preschooling nieces a lot and omg all they do is eat and sit on my head.😂 I never get any reading done when they’re around haha. *bows to your skills* I’m pretty sure we should change “TBR pile” to “TBR sea of monsters”
Love your separators! I voted in your twitter poll and I voted for the “vague pterodactyl screams.” Mainly because I love the word, “pterodactyl.” After reading your blog, I am very happy with my choice! I connect with all of your points. Number one for sure! I usually just end up walking away because I can never choose a book. I mean, I always think I’m ready to choose a book, but then I am looking at all their pretty innocent faces and I can’t ever decide…
Yayyy I’m so glad you liked them.😂I like to fool people into thinking my blog is pretty and fun and then — BOOM — posts of horror and screaming. And bahhahha. I’m glad your vote won then!😂
And omg sometimes I just skip reading and go write a blog post because I can’t make decisions WHICH DOESN’T HELP ME AT ALL…but yet there it is.😂
Hi Cait! This might be really random but since you love dragons, I started reading this series all about dragons called “Wings of Fire”
you might like it. Just thought I’d let you know.
<3 Arunima
Awww, thanks for letting me know about it! THAT’S SO KIND OF YOU. I’ll definitely look it up. 😀
Unfortunately, my own pterodactyl screams come out like squees; sometimes, giggles. I’ve lost count of how many times my family looked at me and probably thought, “Did we get the wrong baby from the hospital?” #plottwist
I have this thing, though, when a character (even on a movie or TV show) does something stupid or embarrassing. I get up and just get hyper. “No, cupcake! Don’t do it! Help! Somebody help my baby!” I can’t bear reading or watching. That’s prolly how invested I am in something.
I hear you.😂😂 Our family’s should really be grateful we’re so enthusiastic about fictional worlds, but tbh I think they more wonder if they can skip countries and not let us know???
I’m really feeling #7 right now. I mean, A Monster Calls is so similar to one of my books. I am both dying inside and kind of happy?? Because if A Monster Calls is so good, that mean my idea was good, too!!! Maybe? Just don’t burst my bubble with “logic”. Pshh, who needs logic.
I know the feeling!! I just borrowed a book out from the library that sounds IDENTICAL to the last book I wrote. Like…I might just go live in a hole in the ground now?
YES to all of these! Buying books is so hard. I want ALL the books, but I don’t have ALL the money. Why? I also get very excited when people tweet or retweet my blog stuff. I’m always surprised that people actually like my posts.
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It’s so haaaard to not have enough money for one’s book buying dreams. Although tbh I would have to be like a BILLIONAIRE to have enough money for the books I want to collect.😂 and then I’d rapidly not be a billionaire so. Awkward.😂
When a book emotionally destroys me, I am screaming and wailing inside.
Then I recommend it to all of my friends.
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When it comes to series I’m 50 % Chronic Series Procrastinator and 50 % avid binge reader. It’s definitely hard to say good-bye to a favorite series, but we can always reread. Also I personally find it really hard to write sequel reviews without spoilers.
And don’t even start about choosing my next read. It seems to be a common bookworm problem.
Recommending books can be stressful, stakes are especially high when you recommend your favorite books.
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Sequel reviews are like IMPOSSIBLE. I want to tell people good things but like…??? It’s so hard??? I end up just waffling on uselessly and then having a panic that I might’ve accidentally spoiled things.😂
Honestly sometimes I want to not recommend my favourite books because they’re too special.😂
I was REALLY set on getting that video of you screaming like a pterodactyl hahaha, but that was a LOT of fun to read 😀 Ugh choosing which books I need to buy and read just as well makes me CRAZY SCREAMING ahah because there are so many books and I have no idea which ones I want to prioritize or not. HOW are we supposed to choose books? I have a crisis every single time ahha.
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But this is like a good compromise, right?!😂 Everyone on twitter is laughing their heads off because they thought I wouldn’t actually post this.😂 HAHAHH I KNOW NO BOUNDS.
The crises are mutual, my friend. *cries with you over choosing books*
Sequel reviews are the bane of my existence…
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They are the actual worst.😭😂
I think I’d like your sister. I liked The Raven Boys well enough, but Ronan was probably my least favourite character. (Which, of course, made The Dream Thieves just “meh” for me because he played such a huge role in it.)
I can relate to #2. I’m terrible for that! I counted the number of sequels I’ve reviewed on my blog and came up with about 14. Third books are even worse at about 8. But first books? There are over 70! Although, quite a few are DNFs, so the number is probably in the 60s. Still… That’s a lot of unfinished series!
As far as #7 goes, don’t shriek too loudly. Only you can write a story your way with your voice. Lots of stories look like copies. Evermore, Obsidian, and Fifty Shades of Grey all borrow heavily from Twilight. Eragon is apparently Star Wars with dragons (I haven’t read it, but I’ve seen this accusation more than once). Even the idea behind Harry Potter has been argued to be a copy of Jane Yolen’s Wizard’s Hall (down to the setting and the descriptions of his friends). But each of these “copies” found an audience. Sometimes you just fall in love with the way a particular author tells a particular story… because no two “copies” are going to offer exactly the same things. So don’t worry about that too much.
*SCREAMS INTO THE VOID FOR 900 YEARS* I JUST SAID YOU’LL MAKE ME CRY IF YOU SAY THAT ABOUT THE RAVEN BOYS.😂😂 I NEED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO GO SIT DOWN AND GATHER MYSELF FOR I HAVE BEEN DAMAGED.
OH MY GOD CAIT WHY ARE YOU READING MY MIND. This post is 150% me. Number three is the bane of my existence. Especially when I looooove the sequel! And I want to tell everyone to go and buy and read it! BUT NO ONE HAS EVEN READ THE FIRST ONE YET. And less than no one are going to read my review about the sequel. It’s the woooorrrst.
But seriously WHY or HOW are you READING MY MIND. And WHY are you making me want to write everything in caps???
BECAUSE MIND READING IS ONE OF MY LIFE SKILLS. YOU’RE WELCOME. Also any of us who actually survive writing sequel reviews actually deserve like an award or something. #legit
ALL CAPS IS JUST THE LANGUAGE TO USE, TBH.
AGREEEEEEEE People are so stressful 😭😭 And I am legitimately mortified every time I recommend a favorite and then THEY ACTUALLY READ IT. If they don’t like it WILL THEY NEVER LISTEN TO ME AGAIN??? 😱😱
I do scream out loud but if it’s in anger or frustration it usually comes out as UNCIVILISED CAVEWOMAN GRUNTING
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People are stressful.😂😂 And omg actually I’ve had someone HATE a book I was raving about on my blog and they messaged me to tell me I had terrible taste and they were never “trusting” my opinion again?!? LIKE WHAT EVEN MATE. We’re not the same person. 😭😭 And way to give me a crisis about rec’ing books.😂
UGH RUUUDE don’t they have anything better to do with their life 🤔🤔 well even if I don’t LOVE a book you recommended I still try out others because I’ve loved most of the ones I boughT because of you!! 😍
I love all the new flower butterfly divider thingies! And I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR WRITING MISTAKES. XD And yes! How are you expected to choose between all your babies? If you pick that one to read next, then the others will sit in the corner feeling sad and lonely and abandoned — how could we be so cruel??? Same goes for buying books too. Every time I go to the bookstore, I’m running back and forth between all the books I want to read.
And AAGGHH YEEES. That feeling when you realize you’ve damaged your own book is the WORST! Do you dogear? I simply CANNOT do that. It’s destroying the precious boooooooooooook!
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I’M GOING TO DO THE WRITING MISTAKES NEXT!😂
And omg I’m glad I’m not the only one who cares about my book’s feelings. Like I just want to give them all an equal chance. Can I read 9 books at once????
I DO NOT DOG EAR, MAY. OMG HOW COULD YOU ASK ME OF THIS.
YAAAAAAAS. *sits down and sips tea while waiting*
I’M SORRY. I JUST HAD TO MAKE SURE. I KNOW PEOPLE WHO DOGEAR AND CALL THEMSELVES BOOKWORMS, SO???
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THEY ARE ACTUALLY HORRORS UPON THE EARTH’S SOIL AND SHOULD NOT BE TRUSTED. I MEAN HOW CAN ANYONE DO THAT.
I NEED TO GO SIT DOWN TOO. OMG SOMEONE GET ME CALMING TEA.
I KNOOOOOOW. YOU ARE D A M A G I N G THE PRECIOUS BOOK. WOULD YOU WRITE IN A BOOK??? NO. SO WHY WOULD YOU FOLD A BOOK???
*hands Cait tea + cake*
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You can scream the word “butterfly” if you try saying it in German. Schmetterling! Okay, I am super tired and probably shouldn’t be commenting at this hour… I like German, by the way!
I can definitely relate, though it’s mostly internal screaming for me. Sometimes I’ll scream at/with my little sister, whether randomly or for book-related reasons. Perhaps the main thing we shriek about is new releases or character deaths, which are the things I can’t just handle internally. I have to tell SOMEONE!
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Oooh, I need to learn how to properly pronounce that because that sounds fearsome and yet nice. PERFECT. 😂
My dude… SOOO much truth here XD. I too have emotional crises over recommending books I love to the people I love because if they don’t both love each other than WHO DO I CHOOSE BETWEEN?!?! It’s like a Romeo and Juliet situation up in here…
Also, pterodactyl screeching is a suitable response to most situations IMO.
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IT IS SO SO HARD. And like there are only SO many places to hide bodies too??? So we can really only risk it one or two times.
I kinda solved that book buying. situation with a strict code of conduct in which I’m only allow to buy a book a gave gazillion stars [like the entire Lunar Chronicle series] WHY are ALL people not like books??? Like super good mannered and quiet? I always damage my books. Because I’m super distracted, like Dory. I got a few things from your store so I hope you like this book damaging very peoplish person 🙂 I wish I could buy EVERYTHING in your store. 🙂
It would be very helpful if people were like books because if they were annoying you can just put them back on a shelf and leave. :’) #ProblemSolvingLikeABoss
I WILL OF COURSE FORGIVE YOU IF YOU BOUGHT FROM MY STORE. ALSO HERE IS CAKE. AND HERE IS A MILLION PIECES OF HAPPINESS. 💕💕
Omg there are so many books I’ve read that are like CARBON COPIES of each other. *pterodactyl screech* Honestly, this screeching business is pretty therapeutic. Also humans, ugh.
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It IS so therapeutic. Thank you twitter for forcing me into a screeching post. :’) (Also sometimes I feel like publishers/authors don’t read very much or else why do we keep getting the same books coming out?!😂)
“I want to read it yet THAT COVER IS AN INSULT TO EYEBALLS EVERYWHERE INCLUDING SAURON’S.”- ahahaha
ahh I love this post so much!!! Completely brilliant!! Oh gosh I’m the same when an author likes something I reviewed (*fans self to keep from fainting*!!
I’m glad you liked that line.😂 I was kind of proud of it bahahh. AHEMMM. ANYWAY. THANK YOU!!! Authors are just amazing superheroes and fajksdlfad.
Omg it’s so terrifying when you hear about something that’s similar to your own WIP, especially more unique elements. And damaging your own book is the worst, it has only happened a handful of times to me, thankfully, and I remember those incidents like they were yesterday lol. Awesome post 😀
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So much pain, so much trauma for we bookworms to go through.😭😂
Noooo I live in abject terror that someone will publish a book like mine before I finish! Gaaaah! I have decided to deal with this with denial. Sigh. Also, the creasing of the book jackets is real! Omygosh I live in fear. Of any harming of the books. And how DO you choose which to buy? You just can’t. So you BUY THEM ALL (Yes, my house is a book maze)
The best way to deal with it, obviously, is TO GET FAMOUS FIRST! HUZZAH! *puts that on to-do list because it’s not working out for me so well* 😂
Buying them all is an excellent problem solver. I also need to, like, rob a bank. BUT YA KNOW. DETAILS.
Duddddeeeeee, you have NOOOO idea how much 7 FREAKS. ME. OUT. Like, I have this book where the protagonist is a huntress which someone recently pointed out to me was similar to ACOTAR (which I have not even read yet) so CUE PANICKING. Basically I get to the stage of writing where I have to FORCE myself not to compare my unpub’ed books with pub’ed ones otherwise I’ll descend into a spiral of despair and self-doubt, ahah.
AND TEN OMGGG. This has happened to me before & I dropped a book in some mud and I just slowly felt my heart sink. Haha.
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NO I ABSOLUTELY GET IT BECAUSE IT LEGIT HAPPENED TO ME A FEW DAYS AGO. Like this book I read had a slightly different setting but the characters/setup-up-of-story were 100% THE SAME AS MINE and it was eerie.😭😂 Clearly we’ve found our brain twins?!? But also: pls stop.😂
So I see the screams won in the end 😀
And I was all up for internet politeness! It’s their fault! *points in the general direction of the internets*
The pterodactyl screams also draws a really funny picture in my head. Like how the invisible part of your profile picture ends with a pterodactyl head and wings. Yep, the booties with the socks, and then the pterodactyl. Gosh, you should update your profile pic TO BE THAT. IT WOULD BE A TOTAL HIT.
When it comes to buying, I guess I am a total pragmatic. If I read an ARC, that’s gone and done. Why would I buy another one 😀 my heart still weeps about that one time I bought an ebook and then my friend gave me a physical copy because it was on my GR to-read list 😀 you can’t imagine the inner facial contortions I had when she gave me the gift and I had to pretend it was totally awesome 😀 although it was, cause the paper version is so much nicer and all that, BUT I JUST BOUGHT THE EBOOK :DDD
I alos get you about the series. I just don’t want it to end! Many people don’t get me. I’m glad you would 😀 that’s also why I read hilariously long books. Nope, no attachment issues here.
Then there’s also the problem that (much like you) I don’t really remember enough of the first book when I start the sequel xD
So go go standalones.
But when it comes to flavors of ice cream… That’s not even a choice. Mint chocolate chip, please.
Oh man, finding a book similar to your own D: now that’s not a good ptero scream :/
I know the “what’s going to happen” thing so well 😀 my BF always says I write the script of every game he’s ever playing and I’m watching 😀 cause I’m always like “this and this is going to happen” and he can’t help being blown away an hour later 😀 but they’re just.. so predictable. Read enough books and you will hack stories.
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They did. 😂 I’m so amused haha. I didn’t actually even have a post when I tweeted that bUT LOOK WHAT I CAN COME UP WITH.😂 Ahem.
I don’t generally buy books if I’ve read the ARC?? Unless it’s SUPER SUPER PRECIOUS TO ME. <3 I'm more likely to buy a book I've read that I libraried or read on audio because I need a physical copy. But the only ARC I've actually bought myself a copy is All The Bright Places.❤️💔
Soooo many attachment issues. And omg I hear you with the memory SO MUCH. I almost just should stop reading series until they're all out. Except I'm far too impatient for that. (Also I hate getting spoiled and the internet is so dumb about spoilers haha.)
Ahh, the already-published-book thing is the WORST. That happened to me with DoTPK, so even though I really liked the book, I also kind of hated it. 🙁 Also, sequels and series finales are terrible. I avoid them to an unhealthy extent. Great post, Cait!
Is that Daughter Of The Pirate King? AND ALSO MY CONDOLENCES. BUT I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. I just read a book that is like 80% like one I wrote. Bury me. 😭😭 And I hear you though! Like you like the book but…it…stooooole from us so THERE IS MUCH PAIN.
Ah, I love your dividers with the butterflies; they’re so pretty! <3
Ugh, sequel reviews. I've had yet to write one on my blog, but I remember writing them on Goodreads when I had one AND THEY WERE SUCH A PAIN. Especially when I binged the series within a week, and never reviewed them individually or took notes. That was obviously a terrible idea because all the details bled together and I just didn't even know anymore. SUCH A PAIN.
And, yes, I definitely agree about people liking your blogging stuff. Sometimes I sit back and realize that there are REAL PEOPLE who ACTUALLY READ MY WORDS AND LIKE THEM AND COMMENT ABOUT THEM. Like, whaaaat??? That's always so crazy for me to think about, but it never fails to make me smile.
Oh, yeah, I suck at choosing my next read. And recommending my fave books gives me anxiety because I want them to like them and it kills me if they don't! And encountering the same cliches over and over again definitely can drive me up a wall.
Aww, thank you!! I’m kind of pleased with how they turned out haha…luring people in to thinking I’m chill and fluttery and then — BAM. Hit ’em with dragons and screaming. #ExcellentPlan
I honestly hate putting sequel reviews on my blog because NO ONE READS THEM.😂 And omg I hear you with binge-reading! I did that for the Percy Jackson books and I haven’t got a clue what happened in which book.😂 #fail
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Also OH MY GOSH IS THIS SO RELATABLE. Seriously #1, #2, #5 and #9 are so me. I HATE MAKING DECISIONS and book decisions are no exceptions! whenever I go book shopping I want to buy ALL THE BOOKS. You can’t make me choose between all of the beauties. AND then choose one to read when they are all staring at you from the shelf saying “read me”. It’s just not fair.
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Aww, thanks for the tag! I’ll definitely go check it out. 😊
I’m glad I’m not alone with the decision-making-fails. 😂 WHY IS IT SO HARD THO. I just want to read them all…at once basically.
I SCREAM INTERNALLY BECAUSE there are other people in my house. How dare they. Do they not understand I need to screech incessantly when the same character keeps making the same stupid decisions and THEN WHINES ABOUT IT. OR DIES?? WHEN A GOOD CHARACTER DIES WHAT EXCUSE ME NO. Also, deciding which to get. There are so many, I need to welcome them home. However, my wallet screeches in agony as I starve it to death. Also, ugly covers are so ANNOYING. I would say I howl at the sun, but I am a child of the night. I burn in 0.23 seconds of stepping outdoors. I’m not kidding. I got a sunburn cutting the fracken grass once. I mean, for coconuts sake, I’m going to have skin cancer in like 2 seconds (IF NOT NOW). MY SKIN IS TRANSPARENT. YOU CAN SEE SO MANY VEINS ITS ANNOYING. Also, if I burn, it goes back to the pale skin that should be reserved for the dead. Sigh.
Internal screaming is good *nods* Good for staying alive so our families don’t decide to get rid of us because we are just TOO WEIRD. And like ugly covers are so bad sometimes that it’s WORTH being out in the daylight just to pitch them into the sun. #priorities Although tbh I never burn when I’m in the sun. :’) Thank you to my grandparents for my Mediterranean skin, BLESS THEM AND MY ABILITY TO TAN.
*still proceeds to lurk in the darkness*
Point 7 is the evil of everything that it’s related to writing. During my writing career (the writer inside me curl up thinking about the far future when it will be an author) while reading books I thinked:
“Oh, look, this passage is so similiar to mine.”
“Oh, this event too”
“Oh, that idea too.”
“The whole creature and magic system too.”
In the end I changed few things about my novel but I decided that in a way or another that are just few things left unwritten in the whole fantasy novels’ history, so I will write anyway what I want.
And then we just end up crying and eating a planet and changing careers to sheep herders. I HAVE THE FEEL. I legit just read a book that was 80% my characters/set up. It just hard robots while I didn’t, and tbh, robots made the whole thing SO much better. I have failed. 😂 *throws book into the fire and frolics into doom*
(But tbh I mean, we’re never going to sound FULLY the same, and so long as we didn’t read the novel that sounds like ours first, we still aren’t truly copying, right?! We just have to figure out how to make our novel more original.😂)
I really do scream when I damage my own book. And trying to pick out what to read next I tend to hiss. lol. Though I think “When a character does something stupid” should be added to this list. B/c that makes me scream 100% of the time. And I usually accidentally on purpose say what I’m thinking out loud. Haha. those characters should know better!
It’s so hard not to feel like a monster when that happens. 😭😭 I feel like my books probably have trust issues with me now BUT I’M SORRRRRRY.
I absolutely *hate* writing reviews. And writing reviews to sequels is like 10,000 times worse, because I swear I already wrote this thing! There are some authors (who I won’t name because that wouldn’t be nice) that seem to write the exact same story over and over again so why should I bother writing reviews for the same thing? I swear I’m going to come up with a “form review” where I just change the characters’ names and then post the review because it’s the exact same story over and over again. This series is only a series because they’re telling the exact same story from like five different people’s perspectives, and of course all five of them are related to each other so they keep popping up in each other’s stories, and the only difference is who these people are hooking up with (and yes I mean that exactly the way it sounds) and eventually marrying or at least getting engaged to before the story’s done. At least wrap everything up at the end of the first book, regardless of whose point of view you tell it from, and then have something *different* happen to the family in book two, and then tell *that* story from a different family member’s point of view, instead of just the same story from a different person’s perspective, with extra details thrown in for more drama. My cats could come up with more plot ideas…
I totally get the hive mind thing, too. People act like their opinion is the only one that matters and OMG you are not allowed to disagree with them like ever and how dare you say that vampires shouldn’t sparkle (they really shouldn’t…don’t get me wrong, I love the Twilight books, but…they really shouldn’t) and that you’re not on Team Edward (Team Jacob all the way, baby! Although I’m glad Bella and Edward are going to be together forever, I’m equally happy that Jacob and Renesme are going to be together forever too, or at least as long as they’re both around, which is going to be long enough) and what do you mean you don’t like Twilight? Sacrilege! (Okay, I agree with them there, but I have no problems with other people disagreeing with this, everyone is entitled to my—I mean, their own opinions, and even entitled to express them (as long as they do so quietly, in a dark room, far away from me, especially if they’re going to bash my favorite characters) and I won’t even beat them over the head repeatedly with the entire Twilight saga. Much. Or The Hunger Games. Or Harry Potter. Okay, yes I will with Harry Potter. The entire series. In hardback. The British editions (if I could ever freaking get hold of them, that is! What’s with the US not wanting to let us read the original versions anyway? I’d prefer to own the British versions, but oh no, we can’t get those in the US without sacrificing our firstborns to the British book publishing gods or something (how about if I sacrifice my brother in law instead? No one would miss him, I promise…)
Okay, I have found several other books that are similar to the one I’m writing (trying to write anyway). Part of this is, of course, because everyone wants to jump on the Harry Potter bandwagon (Hogwarts Express?) including me. I’m also writing a (hopefully) series about a magic school, only mine is set in Ireland and starts waaaaaaay back before anyone even thought of naming the place Ireland, and the main character uses Irish Gaelic instead of Latin for her spells (does anyone know, has the language changed much since like the single-digit centuries CE? I know it’s pretty much a dying language itself, with only a few counties left in Ireland where it’s predominantly spoken, but is the modern version anything like the ancient version, or has it changed drastically over the centuries, or what? I have no idea how to go about finding out, since most sites just want to tell me about Irish names for both genders, or translate words or phrases for me which is nice, believe me, but that doesn’t help much if the words I want are from 200 CE and the ones they’re giving me are from 2017 and they are totally different words), plus the main character is immortal (so she was probably around to change Salazar Slytherin’s nappie) plus she has a pet bird who is also immortal (a raven or crow, haven’t decided which, either of the European versions of those birds are like HUGE, way bigger than the US versions and those can get pretty big as well), plus a few other minor details I haven’t worked out yet (like a basic plot other than this character starting the school and getting it fully staffed and students to attend it and all that little stuff)…
I quit recommending books to people unless specifically asked, because even when I know we have similar tastes in books it seems like if I recommend one they’ve either already read it and weren’t impressed (how could you *not* be impressed by Divergent, I ask you!) or have read enough reviews that it doesn’t sound very good or interesting or some other such drivel so they’re not even going to read it and make up their own minds about whether it’s any good or not (see above comment about hive minds
Again, the same story written over and over again makes me not only want to scream, but to scream directly in the author’s face for like two hours straight (except I don’t have the lung capacity for that) and then drop them into the fires of Mt. Doom along with that cursed ring everyone seems to be so obsessed with, and then they can argue with Gollum over their own “precious” and leave mine alone…
Aw, I’m sorry you don’t like most books so much. That’s sad. ☹️I love books and reviewing!
It’s always hard to come up with new ideas that’s for sure, haha. But so long as we writers tell it OUR way and are very aware of what’s popular so we don’t copy…I think we’re doing a good job. *nods*
It’s not the books I mind, I love books (you really should see how many I have downloaded on my Kindle app). What I hate is when a certain author seems to keep writing the same story over and over again and never comes up with anything completely original or new for them to do when it’s a series. I’m not talking about different authors who seem to use the same tropes, I’m talking about a particular author who just seems to keep rewriting the same book continuously, and not just within a single series but every series they write. The basic premise may be different but the underlying theme is always the same, to the point where I actually stopped reading their books even though I’m supposed to be reviewing several of them, because I started feeling like I was just writing the same review over and over again, only changing the names of the characters. Mind you, this is a really good author and I love the stories themselves, but I definitely needed to give myself some space from them for a while before I just got too frustrated and deleted them all. That wouldn’t be fair to the books, it’s not *their* fault they’re all the same…
So I’ve been burying myself in fan fiction, and hopefully that will help me want to eventually go back to reading my ever-growing (on my laptop) pile of books…good thing they’re not physical copies, there would be no room left for me or my furbabies in my room at this point…
Sequel review, oh my god, I feel your pain. I think I tried a grand total of two times to write reviews for sequels and then said, “nope, never doing that again.” It. Is. Horrible.
Why are decisions so hard?! Choosing the next book to read requires you to take so many different things into account, and by the time you’ve finished your fifth list in order to properly decide, a whole week has gone by and you’ve read nothing.
I hate feeling like I’m copying anyone, so I use those unfortunate incidents of when someone “steals” my idea to get me to write faster. But it doesn’t always work. xD
It’s so haaard, and I know I’m completely shallow, but I also hate how sequel reviews on my blog just bomb my stats. 😂 No one ever seems to want to read sequel reviews anyway? Haha. AHEM. Also I think choosing books is the worst and books should be nicer to us and easier to pick between them. Instead they all glare and I feel judged and omg I need some tea and to sit down I think.
ALSO HAVING NOT ENOUGH TIME TO READ???! Like how am I supposed to be educated and logically sound and have good reading tastes and be cultured and antisocial and reclusive if I don’t have time?
And also the frustration of trying to decide whether it’s a book you want to write in or a book you want to keep clean and don’t have two copies of. UGHHHHH.
THAT IS SOMETHING I ASK MYSELF EVERYDAY. LET ME SCREECH WITH YOU NOW. WHY IS LIFE SO MEAN TO US. WE NEED MORE HOURS.
I would like to write a very long comment about how much I enjoyed this post, and how much it made me smile…
But instead, I will just say: #7.
It just happened to me the other day, and that gif does a pretty good reenactment of the response =) But then I reminded myself that lots of books have similarities. It’s about what you do to make them DIFFERENT and unique.
~Caitlin @ Quills & Coffee
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I APPRECIATE THIS COMMENT VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. <3 And you're absolutely right about #7. 😂 I think it's just the initial shock of "omg they wrote what I'm writing" that makes me scream...😂😂 But we can get over it and still make ours unique/different!!
Exactly!! And there is much vague pterodactyl screaming on my part as well 😂
#1 I used to have a complicated formula for deciding which books to buy next. Like:
“O.k. if it’s X amount to get free shipping that means I can get Y amount of books… This % must be books I”ve never read, this % must be books I’ve been MEANING to buy for awhile. At least one must be non-fiction” lol
Now I have a library card buying books is easier (but I keep maxing out on how many books you’re allowed to check out at once heh)
#7 AAAAH!!! I found out there’s a series that used the name I had for the school in one of my books I”m writing. >:| Doesn’t seem like a big deal but that was the first little bit of that story that came to me & now I’ve got the worst writer’s block cuz all I can think about is I have to rename my school 🙁
Omg that is ME THOUGH. Like I freelance blog for book vouchers and most of it is like working out how to fit the best amount of books for the price I have to spend.😂 It’s an art. AN ART I TELL YOU.😂 Although also: library cards are amazing.
Ugh no I get that. I got really stumped recently when I found a book that had a character with like an IDENTICAL personality/backstory to one I’d written. The setting/genre was different, but it threw me so bad.😭😂
I feel you on so many of these! It still blows my mind that people visit, read, and/ or comment on my blog… I’m just surprised every time. Especially when you know that person in real life… yeah!
I totally get that!! Every time I get comments part of me goes “but why”. 😂😂 I LOVE THEM AND YOU ALL SO MUCH THOUGH!! IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO CHAT WITH EVERYONE ABOUT BOOKS!!
This is my first time ever on this blog and I may or may not dedicate a weekend to reading everything on here because 1. this is honestly one of the funniest pieces of writing I’ve read all week and I kind of needed it, and 2. All the LOTR references. I live for it. I breathe it. I will love you for it. I will give anyone everything I own if they make LOTR references.
Aww I’m so glad you stopped by!! AND THIS HONESTLY MAKES MY DAY THANK YOU. 💕💕
On #9: I HAVE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU CAIT!!!! You see, all along you’ve had prophetic magical powers to see the future. This is the simple reason why books/movies/art in general/life probably can’t surprise you anymore. YOU HAVE GROWN INTO YOUR POWERS. YOU ARE A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE OF DESTINY. It is time to pack your bags and prepare for adventure and death and the end of the world!!!!! Yay!!!! *throws confetti in your face*
Just thought I’d warn you. You know, with MY prophetic powers. Go be a good cupcake and don’t break the world too much while you’re trying to save it.
*twirls about like a majestic snowflake* THIS MAKES SENSE. I’M SO SPECIAL.