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Why The Bookworm Life Is Exhausting

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Like the average bookworm, I haven’t slept since 1664.

This is because there are SO many books to read and also the entire life of a bookworm (and book blogger) is just freaking exhausting and even if you do run into a brick wall to knock yourself unconscious for a few snatched minutes of sleep — the fact is you’ll just return to the exhausting routine that is: THE BOOK LIFE™.

Nobody can leave. Don’t even entertain that hope.

Now just in case you’re reading this and sipping coffee or feeling weirdly chipper (WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU) I’m going to handily explain why the bookworm life is so exhausting.

And you’ll finish reading this post with one of the following thoughts:

  • “Wow this is so right the bookworm life is super exhausting.”
  • “I wasn’t actually tired until I read this post but now I am thanks for that Cait.”
  • “What happened in 1664 that actually DID let you have a sleep?? Was it a boring year????”
  • “Cait why tho.”
  • ↑↑↑↑↑ All of the above.

Best of luck now.

1. THERE ARE ALWAYS 501 BOOKS YOU HAVEN’T READ YET BUT YOU SHOULD’VE BY NOW.

I read an unreasonable amount of books per year and I’m still behind. It’s absolutely outrageous. I seem to read 1 book and then add 5 more on Goodreads and so you can imagine how this is going to work out for me. Immortality? Yes. I need it.

It’s exhausting just THINKING about all the books we haven’t read yet. And it’s also exhausting trying to read them. I mean, can you honestly tell me you’ve not sacrificed sleep at some point in your life to read more?? Hmm??

I think not.

2. READING EMOTIONAL BOOKS IS LIKE DRAINING YOUR LIFE FORCE.

“Read good books!” they say. “It’ll be fun!” they say.

Well it is freaking exhausting.

Sometimes I actually LIKE reading a lowkey 3-star book that I’m going to feel “meh” about in the end because, at least I can catch an emotional rest?!? I’ve had times where I’ve read a couple of 5-stars in a row and HOLY HECK. THAT’S SO TIRING. You’re like having your emotions thrashed by a novel and living a whole life in a few hours and afterwards people expect you just to go on??? No my TRUE LOVE just died and I JUST BECAME QUEEN and magical powers jUST BURST FROM THE SKY. Give me a break.

I can’t even process all of this.

 

3. TINY FONT.

There are two things that make me feel like a little wizened old grandmother, even though I’m only 23, and they are: (1) being really excited to receive the gift of nice socks, and (2) opening a book and being stabbed in the eye with a toothpick because it’s written in microscopic print.

Just WAIT while I bust out my microscope to read it, thanks, friend. It’s not like I’m trying to preserve my delicate eyeballs as is.

Reading tiny tiny tiny font for a while makes me tired WAY faster than regular sized font.

I’m pretty sure that’s why they put the ingredients on cereal packets in such small font. It’s not to save like printing space, it’s totally so you don’t realise you’re eating tasty flavoured cardboard souls because you’re too tired to read it.

4. ALL THE OCTOPUS LIMBS IT TAKES TO RUN A BLOG.

Most people don’t realise this, but bloggers are actually octopi. Cute octopi, though. We have long swirly tentacles so we can multitask things like blogging, twitter, instagram, goodreads, and slaying enemies at the great feast of King Neptune. Fear us.

Because I DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW WE BLOGGERS MANAGE TO DO ALL THE THINGS WE DO. At first you think blogging is just hacking up a few words and splattering them on a post. But like VISUALS! Graphics! Links! The time it takes to think up something intelligent to write! * Social media! Promotion! Reading the books! Photography! Answering comments! Putting the souls of the damned in cute clay jars! Networking! Reviews! It’s a lot of work and it takes a lot of time and basically bloggers never sleep.

 

* LOL AND BURN @ ME because this is surely not happening here.

 

5. EXPECTATIONS ARE ACTUALLY VERY TIRING.

Look, to prove my point, here is a smol list of expectations we suffer through:

  • People expecting reviews on time.
  • Expecting reviews to make sense (THAT CROSSES THE LINE)
  • Expecting books to be read
  • TBR wanting to strangle us in our sleep for those books not read
  • Expectations on how / what we read and blog about
  • Our audiences expecting us to produce better and better content
  • Expectations that our chocolate supply will grow magically not diminish, but this is not happening
  • Expectations of wanting to be the best but also THAT’S A LOT OF WORK
  • Expectations to read more, or less, or both simultaneously upside down.
  • Expectations to be upside down.
  • Expectations to be Eleven.
  • Expectations to be in Stranger Things because let’s face it…you’re on the right path.

This is, quite frankly, exhausting.

6. TELLING HUMANS TO BE NICE.

I like to harbour this secret idea that people are very intelligent, complex, and interesting creatures. And then I go on Goodreads for 5 minutes and LOL @ MY UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS.

HOW I SPEND MY TIME ON THE INTERNET:

  • 10% posting bad quality content that is hilarious to me at least
  • 20% writing reviews and blog posts and etc.
  • 50% laughing at a gif that’s probably only funny because it’s MIDNIGHT AND YOU’RE OVERTIRED
  • 90000007% telling people to S T O P being unnecessarily horrible

Hey but it’s really tiring. I get to the point where I see ANOTHER person on goodreads go off at me for having an opinion (whereas their opinion is better???) or being sexist or homophobic or racist or ableist just GROSS IN ANY WAY and I’m tired of themmmm.

IT’S NOT THAT HARD TO BE NICE. Did your guardian wizard parent not teach you to share your crayons? Dammit, Jim, get a grip.

7. TRYING TO FIT THINGS INTO PLACES THEY DON’T FIT BUT THEY SHOULD SO YOU GOTTA.

This is exhausting and it’s a very unrepresented part of the bookworm life. I think we should all take a moment to appreciate how many things DO NOT FIT WHERE THEY SHOULD but yet we bookworms, writers, readers, and bloggers…we make them fit.

For example:

  • Fitting book box sets back into tHE FREAKING BOX.
  • Fitting 87 books on a shelf made for 12 books.
  • Fitting 7 years worth of reading into 30 minutes before bed.
  • Fitting 17 books in your bag even if you’re only leaving the house for 2 hours but you might. run. out.
  • Fitting book buying into your budget without living off tuna for the rest of your born days.
  • Fitting enough snacks in your pockets for when you take your books into the dark witch’s wood to get some reading time done.
  • Fitting all the book knowledge IN YOUR HEAD.
  • Fitting enough cake in your mouth.
  • Fitting all your books in your house without having to kick your family out. *
* But like…go for it. If it helps?

8. READING HORRIBLE HORRIBLE BOOK TROPES AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Nothing makes me want to nap faster than suffering through a trope that’s DEAD. IT’S SO DEAD, IT’S JUST THE ACTUAL MOST DEAD THING IN EXISTENCE. I don’t want you coming @ me with excuses that it might only be “mostly dead”. There are some harmful and hateful tropes I think should be all dead.

And I’m not saying things like love-triangles or chosen ones. Pfft. They CAN be done well. I’m talking about problematic tropes, like white saviours and love-cures-mental-illness and killing-off-all-the-minorities.

WE’RE ALL TOO TIRED. STOP.

9. ABSOLUTELY HUGE BOOKS.

People lie a lot about what it’s like to be an adult. They say stuff like: “You won’t have acne and your attention span will mature and you’ll make good decisions!” All of this is lies. But PARTICULARLY the attention span. 12-year-old me read longer books than 23-year-old me does.

Me, now, would prefer if books didn’t get over 400 pages, thanks.

ACTUAL FOOTAGE OF ME @ LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN LIFE

 

I’m too young and tired for these 600 PAGES BEASTS.* I can actually feel my eyeballs drooping. Or my eyelids. I don’t even know by this point. I need a nap.

 

* Unless they are by Schwab or Clare and then uGH I’M YOURS.

10. HAVING TO PLAY “CATCH UP” WITH THE BOOK COMMUNITY IF YOU LOSE ATTENTION FOR 4 SECONDS.

Now unless you are an omnipresent eyeball, you need to take breaks from the book community now and then. Sometimes we go completely offline, right!? Which is great. Cool. Fine…

EXCEPT PLAYING CATCH UP IS A FREAKING NIGHTMARE.

Everything moves so fast around here?! I take Thursdays off posting on twitter, but I swear we have about 3 moon cycles, 5 dramas, 17 announcements, and 2 blood sacrifices in that time. And when I get back, holy kelp, what’s going on. This is basically the reason I rarely take hiatuses because I like to know everything. I’m sure that’s healthy.

I’m sure it’s also very exhausting. I just need to leave for Antartica and curl up with 3 polar bears, two warm blankets, and a penguin for a very very long immortal sleep. But can you freaking IMAGINE trying to catch up after that? It’s a tragedy in the making.

 

Also FUN FACT I have written 1,000,000 words this year and did NaNo in 2 days directly following rewriting a whole book in 10 days directly following WORKING REALLY FRIKKIN HARD ALL YEAR and I’m so tired haha. This post is only slightly inspired by me being tiiiired. You’re welcome. END OF YEAR TIRED FEELS.
#ImFine

what bookish-shaped things make YOU exhausted?!?? do you share any on my list? do you get exhausted by good books? do you ever feel behind on all the bookish news???

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  2. Currently I’ve just bought a book by an author I’m collecting and certain shelfs have certain authors. the Harlan Coben book won’t fit unless I move another book but in order to move one book is have to move the rest of that authors books!

    Been behind on series, whether you’ve started or not.

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  3. OMG, yes, I 100% relate to everything on this list. Being a blogger/reader is SO TIRING. Especially if you put a lot of pressure on yourself! At the beginning of this year I told myself I wasn’t going to pressure myself to blog/read and basically just do as much as I could without emotionally stressing myself out. I haaaaave read less than previous years—but I’m also reading more of what I WANT to read, and not what’s hot/popular, etc., and honestly, it’s been a lot more fun. 😊😊

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    • It is, right?! And the pressure is a huge thing. I mean, I know some of it is self-inflicted too…😂 We’re SO nice to ourselves ahh haha ha *dies* And I’m glad you’re reading more of what YOU want to read!! I’m trying to do that more now too…although I still want to read all the popular stuff. So basically??? I can never sleep??😂

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  4. My tbr for the rest of the year is reading Cassandra Clare’s and Riock Riordans latest series now that I have the time. They are all massive and I love them and the writing and characters and plot, but my word do they make me exhausted!! 😩😩😩

    And yes I always feel behind on bookish news. You miss one tbh/ haul video and then your world comes crashing around you! 😩😩😩

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  7. Hi Cait.
    Million word girl. That is amazing. What will you do next year?
    NaNoMo in two days? Hunh? Is that even possible? Oh yeah, you wrote an article on how to do it.

    If you are interested, I have written a blog article on some of my recent activities outside of writing. I do not write many articles, but it is not everyday that I get to be a Naked Cowboy.

    Cheers!
    Your pal,
    ~Icky. 🙂

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  8. The biggest one for me is finding space for the new books because I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH BOOKSHELVES. So many of my books are just stacked on the floor, and yet I keep buying more.

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  9. Totally relate to the last point – I always seem to miss the things that create new discourse/drama because the internet seems to run on US time and I’m asleep. Then I wake up and the world’s gone mad and I’m just stood there, confused, whilst everyone runs about screaming.
    I’ll never understand why people think basic human decency is optional on the internet.

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    • Ohh I can totally understand the pain of wrong timezones. At least for me, my morning is generally their night so it works not too badly? But the dramas.😂 Usually I turn up when everyone is super angry and subtweeting and not talking exactly about wHAT happened and it’s so confusing.😂

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    • Aww aren’t you LOVELY. And I believe you about your small one. 😂 I used to babysit my nephew/nieces all the time and THAT was exhausting and I got to give them back. *falls over*

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  11. This doesn’t so much “exhaust” me so much as annoys me, AND I DO IT TO MYSELF, but still, what annoys me nonetheless is being in the middle of the book/fandom and searching for fanart, aesthetics, etc, on Tumblr…then coming across a spoiler NAMELY of…(drumroll) a character death. You would have though I’d have learned after finding out about Newt’s death in the Maze Runner (via Pinterest?) , but NOPE! Just did it again, and, man, I need to just learn my lesson. Whether or not I actually do or not remains to be determined, lol.

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    • OMG I TOTALLY HEAR YOU. That annoys the heck out of me. I actually have to force myself to NEVER look up anything while mid-way through a book (Although that’s freaking hard for fandoms and TV shows, right!? I want to pin art but it’s hard when you’re not finished.) 😭😭

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  12. I stayed up all night to read Saints and Misfits. I only meant to stay up for a little while and then the night just flew past. xD I also did the same thing with Letters to the Lost (it was sooooo good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

    I agree with number 2. I read Six of Crows at the end of last year and Crooked Kingdom just about 3 months ago. DID I RECOVER?? DO I WANT TO?? I have Six of Crows with me right now and I started squealing yesterday when Kaz was being sassa with Van Eck. It’s a good thing that my friends love me enough to understand that books either leave me speechless or INSANE, lol

    CONGRATS ON WINNING NANO, YOU BEAUTIFUL PERSON!
    (also I am all the amounts of jealous because I am only at 20k and there are 12 days left till Nano is over and I have no clue what I’m writing at this point xD)

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    • Omg that makes me want to read Saints & Misfits REALLY SOON THEN. And omg Letters to the Lost…*watches broken heart melt all over the floor* (It was so so good though right?!)

      Pfft there’s no recovery after Crooked Kingdom. I have angry things to shout at the sky because of that book. IT WAS SO PERFECT BUT ALSO HOW DARE IT.

      Aww, I hope the rest of your NaNo works out!! ROOTING FOR YOU.

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  13. It’s still worth it! You’re right, though, blogging is exhausting. I stayed up really late last night because I wanted to update an older page on my blog that probably nobody will read, but the page was wrong and I needed to fix it immediately!

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  14. Oh yes, being a bookworm is SUPER DUPER exhausting. Especially if you have other things to manage, like social life + professional life + romantic life… Basically, life outside of books. And when you’re already 100% dead because of all the books and feelz… well at least you can’t get deader (but it’s more difficult to be productive then)

    I’d love to see a post about your fav and least fav tropes (not necessarily problematic ones) in YA, it would be a fun read !

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    • Omg yes adding in your like actual offline-life to all of this…WE DESERVE SO MANY CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND NAPS RIGHT NOW. *falls over*

      Oh that is a good post idea.😂 I’ll have to check and see if I’ve done a trope post haha. (I don’t think I have though?! GENIUS THANK YOU.)

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  15. I actually love 400 and 600-page books because it saves me the trouble of trying to decide what to read next. Trying to pick out a new good book to read is exhausting, too, so if I have to look for one I’m going to love I look for a really thick one. This gives me a chance to replenish my TBR stack because as exhausting as being a bookworm is, it beats the terrifying alternative of suddenly realising you have nothing ‘good’ to read and spending an hour on Overdrive looking for an eBook at your local library.

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  16. I #relate soooo much to every single one of these. Us bookworms are seriously underappreciated, especially when it comes to carrying around stacks of ten 500 pg books all day.

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  17. The book one about emotional books is so true… and the expectations. These wear me out.
    Also, I was drinking coffee while reading this but it’s because I’m a tired potato, not a chipper one. 😂

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  18. This! Yes! And I don’t even have a blog yet OR a book awaiting publication (I’m so freaking excited to read your book and so happy for you!!!) nor do I actually write anything of substance besides what comments and reviews I post on the interwebs. I also don’t have the benefit of youth but I do have a type of immortality figured out! I’ve been 29 for a few years now and if it wasn’t for the two tiny humans I created I think I could be invincible. They make me feel more like I’m 89 tho, what with all their needs and expectations like food and shelter and 25.3 million toys EACH! And of course neither has my undying love of books but I refuse to give up! Pretty sure that whoever came up with the Nook and Kindle were parents tired of carrying big books they never had a chance to read. I do most of my reading on those apps on my phone these days so I can sneak in a few pages no matter where I am. WIN! Now if I could only find a job that pays me to read books and sleep I’d be golden. Anywho, keep fighting the good fight! Tbr’s… and cake…of the world beware!

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    • SQUEEE THANK YOU ABOUT MY BOOK. 😍😍 It still feels a bit magically surreal you know!?? Like yayyyy it’s happening. AHH. Ahem. Anyway back to the topic at hand.

      Oh I can imagine that tiny human mortals age you about 13 years per day. I age that much when I babysit and at least I get to hand them back when they’re screaming.😂And YES so pleased kindles exist. when I’m too tired for those beast sized books, they are lifesavers. :’) Also less daunting not seeing all the page ahhh ahaha.

      (I need to be paid to read too. PLEASE.😂)

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  19. Okay, tired tropes in general are god awful. Like, I can tell with in the first few pages if I can stick with the book because of the sheer saturation of these tropes but goodness you are right, so much better than actually harmful tropes. Love cures mental illness makes me retch every time.

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    • Same though. Like I can usually tell if I’ll like a book within like 10 pages.😂 I’M SO JUDGY. But also when you read a lot you get good at knowing what you’ll like?!? And the problematic tropes need to die. *beats them to death with a shovel*

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  22. Yes.
    Ugh right now I’m reading Libba Brays’s Liar of Dreams and it’s awesome but it’s fricken 600 pages! Why? Why does it have to be so long? It’s making me get behind on my other reading. 🙁
    Ah well, at least it’s interesting lol.

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  23. Was this a schedueled post? ‘Cause I was up at 4;00, saw this post, and thought;
    Dude. Do you even sleep?

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  26. The better the book the more exhausted I am. And i’m always behind on the bookish news. I haven’t checked the bookish twitter in dayyyys. I don’t even want to know how behind I am. Oh well XD

    The bookworm life is exhausting.

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  28. The gif for #2 is real footage of me when I’m tired (WHICH IS MOST OF THE TIME, THANKS INSOMNIA) and my sister is conveniently there for me to fall asleep on top of. not kidding.

    AND THE TROPES OH THE TROPES. personally i hate the one where the neurodiverse kid becomes someone’s ‘project’ because ASDFJKL WHY. and the dragons being bad guys?? I mean?? Why??

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    • WHO NEEDS SLEEP. *laughs manically and walks into a wall* 😂 Omg don’t even get me started on the sucky tropes neurodiverse humans have to put up with. I want to write a post on it, but I might be too ranty.😂 (Like aurighihg stop CURING US WE DON’T NEED IT.)

      Dragons do not deserve the hate they get.

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  29. Dude. You are so correct. Books ARE exhausting. People picture bookish folks as people just happily, calmly lying around reading. No. Do they not see the throwing of books, the incoherent sobbing and yelling at fictional people!? Come on now! And you are so right about the other parts being tough too- especially keeping up with the whole bookish community. I swear these people don’t sleep and are secretly some kind of zombies or AIs or something. Someone should be nice enough to TELL US if everyone else is an AI, so at least we don’t feel like we have to keep up anymore. Like, when someone inevitably tells me that half of your brain is a super high tech word processing device, I can at least be like “ah, okay, that explains why I am such a mess in comparison, off to bed I go!” And yes- I think good books are more exhausting than bad books actually. Because 1) They give you all the feels and that is tiring in itself, and 2) You feel like you owe the book a better review, more sharing, etc. because you loved it. OH and also snarky reviews are easier to write, so there’s a third reason!

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    • I’M ALWAYS RIGHT, SHANNON. WE SHOULD ALL KNOW THIS BY NOW. *nods sagely*😂

      It’s SO exhausting being so emotionally involved in books. Like if we’re an introvert too, all this fictional socialising is a big deal?!? Someone award us with a nap.

      And I’m glad you agree about how tiring good books can be!😂 Ugh EMOTIONS. Who has time to feel all these things.

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  30. Omg yes it is quite exhausting! All those feels from reading make us emotionally exhausted (in the best possible way), then online interactions are draining to because we’re introverts. There’s so much to do in our bookworm lives!!

    I’m so behind on bookish news right now. Have been for years because of vet school never letting me browse the internet and blogs like I used to. Will I ever catch up again?? Probably not, let’s be honest.

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    • Ohhh the emotional exhaustion IS REAL.😂 And if we are bookworm-introverts it’s like doubly exhausting, all this fictional socialising. THIS IS A REAL THING.

      Honestly I’m online all the time and half the time I have no idea what’s going on either.😂

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  31. Interesting points of view! I can’t disagree with your opinion about reading books. Your arguments are clear and persuasive. But I don’t know… I am really font of reading. I never feel tired or exhausted while enjoying a book. Book is the best teacher of my life.

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  32. Hello Cait!
    Love this post! You have such a humorous style of writing and your posts always crack me up 🙂
    I am glad to not be the only person who find it exhausting to read books with small font! (For some reason I associate “grown up” books with having small font, and I feel guilty for not wanting to read books with small font even though I am an adult, technically :’) ) And yes, being an adult is not as great as it’s hyped up to be.
    That is amazing that you wrote 1 million words this year! Congrats! That must be more than what the average person writes in a lifetime :’)

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    • Aww THANKS, SOPHIE. <3 That honestly makes my day.😂 I try. And I honestly do think a lot of adult books have tiny font and like, hey this is why I'm in YA, peoples, I have tired eyes, don't torture me.😂 (Also like totally want to refund being an adult. It's EXHAUSTING. Although we get more chocolate, so??? This is a positive.)

      Ahh hahhaa. I have no idea how I even wrote 1 million this year.😂 Hopefully I don't feel the need to exceed that next year BECAUSE I'M TIRED.

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      • Haha yes! That’s why I read YA novels too. Honestly I think lots of great books are written in reasonable font sizes 🙂
        Take care, Cait! You work very hard, but remember to take breaks now and then 🙂

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  33. I much appreciate all bookworm’s efforts. Writing a book is quite tiring, too! Carrying out the research is particularly challenging. Pitching and promoting takes up a huge chunk of time. Then again, writing is a passion and usually something that you do through blood sweat and tears. Of course, the writer has no audience without the readers who we remain eternally grateful to. In an attempt to connect with our audience we engage in free book giveaways. If anyone wishes to read a NA novel empowering students then please get back in touch.
    My book by Solstice Publishing is called ‘What If I Go?’ It raises awareness of grooming behaviour as a heads up to the vulnerable living away from home.
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    Best, Polly

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  34. Going to sleep now because I’ve just become so exhausted… BUT wonderful post, and so true. Especially tiny font books? Like sorry, but I don’t have a microscope handy just to read The Hobbit??😂

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  35. Yes pretty much all of these things make me SUPER EXHAUSTED. For now, I have my GR challenge as 1 book, AND OF COURSE I HAVE SURPASSED THAT. But it’s definitely one thing off the stress list because now I don’t have to worry about being so and so books behind. On the other hand, I’m trying to get back into blogging (fully), and I’m getting there, but I’ve forgotten how much creative juice is needed to make graphics. Because of course Val just can’t reuse the same one over and over again. Nope.

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    • Aww congrats on finishing you goal there.😂😂 But hey that’s a really good idea to take care of YOURSELF first!! I do think we can all get caught up in numbers a bit. Although my goals don’t drive me as much as my terrifying tbr pile…(whose fault iS THAT CAIT).

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  36. It’s been kind of disappointing to watch the bookish community spiral into basically another chunk of social media: everyone offended and angry about everything all the time. And I’m not talking about the big things, like the books that are rightfully called out for being racist, I’m talking about the stuff like “there’s one tiny bit of problemantic thing in this book so naturally this book is trash and MUST NEVER BE READ” and it turns into a huge thing. Especially because you are never, ever going to find something that is completely unproblematic. And it’s exhausting to witness even if you’re not apart of it. WHICH IS WHY YOU NEED TO TAKE HAITUSES, CAIT. SELF CARE.

    But yes. Blogging is exhausting. Being on the internet is exhausting. Just generally being alive is exhausting. WE’RE ALL EXHAUSTED.

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    • Omg hasn’t it just? *cries* Have you watch Francina Simone youtube videos? She did one on how YA readers are basically morally bankrupt and the whole time I was like: SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. It’s so disappointing how people act. And it’s so ridiculous that people feel they can only like a book that’s “perfect”/?!? Like that doesn’t exist! Acknowledge problems yes! But we can still enjoy books that aren’t perfect.

      The internet is so exhausting.😂

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  37. Honestly I just saw some of the RUDEST people on Goodreads and I’m like nodding my head to everything on this list but especially that part and the problematic tropes. I mean, I get so exhausted by a lot of things in life but it’s the people with no common sense (or, you know, a bit of niceness and the fact that taste is subjective) that REALLY get under my skin. I am sO tired. Oh my God, I am over here thinking of the last time I stayed up way later than I should have to read a book (it was a Cassandra Clare novel naturally) and now I’m TIRED AGAIN. This post is 100% true can confirm.

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    • I can’t even with goodreads people sometimes. It’s HORRIBLE. Way to lose faith in humanity. 😭😂 But luckily the majority are lovely!! And like it’s not that hard to understand that not one book will suit everyone right?! Recently I had a bunch of people like just go mad in my comment section and attack some other user and I just…UGH PEOPLE. Maturity is nice.😂

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  39. On this weeks episode of “Cait said something Australia and Britt’s wondering what the American equivalent is,” what the kelp are cereal packets? Are you referring to the large boxes that cold cereal come in (I’m stretch myself here because in the States we don’t actually differentiate between hot and cold cereal, except for some small parts of the country, but I’ve been informed it’s a thing ELSEWHERE) or are you referring to the individual brown packets that contain oatmeal that you’re supposed to mix with LIQUID OF CHOICE and then microwave FOR EFFICIENCY or cook on a stove if you wanna feel .2% ADULT. Is that what you’re talking about? Because instant oatmeal is what I thought when I read “cereal packets” and now I gotta know.

    Also, I read a book that was seventh-level-of-hell dreadful and I felt absolutely conned because all the reviews were five-star “OMG THIS IS AMAZING” and then I learned the author had asked all their friends and family members to leave nice reviews to boost their rating and I was all, “No sir.” So I wrote a very polite, honest review on how I felt the book felt extremely unpolished… like “did you submit the rough draft?” unpolished. The woman who edited the book commented very rudely saying I was too stupid to understand literature and that she had a B.A. from some fancy writing school and I was all, “Ma’am, if this is the best you can do, you should probably demand a refund,” BUT ANYWAYS, this bystander jumped in on the comments and was basically all, “This is America where we can say what we want and this gal reviewed it honestly and I’m actually glad I didn’t spend money on something that is so error-ridden and if you’re really pissy about people saying your work needs more work, then I don’t know, how about you just do better?” And that is how my internet-friend Kieran and I met. 🙂

    Also also, take a nap Night Fury. Seriously. Take a nice long nap and when you wake up, post on social media, “I SLEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. MINIONS, WHAT DID I MISS? HMU.” People will actually catch you up on what you’ve missed. Seriously. I used to do it back when I was blogging all the time. There are some nice people in the world. (but don’t ask me to update you on anything you missed because I’m so far out of the loop I’m not even in the circus)

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    • I HONESTLY HAVE NO IDEA.😂 I mean, like you have cereal obviously. Soooo doesn’t it come in a packet? We have a box + a plastic packet = cereal inside the packet.

      Omgggg I love your story! Although I hate that you had to have that experience. I have literally been called “too dumb” to understand a book and it’s the most maddening thing ever. Like THANK GOD THERE’S A COMPUTER SCREEN BETWEEN US MATE. *summons a dragon like Kavnisky’s* People are so disgustingly rude.

      I’m pretty much just a froot loop these days tbh. But yes I kind of do need a nap.😂 Or maybe 9 naps….

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  40. Oh Cait, I am feeling you so much! Sometimes I feel like book bloggers are way underappreciated and everyone is always having an opinion about our opinions (damn you brain thinking up another thought). It makes for a really tiring time. Although I did go on hiatus for 2 months (even though I was kind of around on Twitter, haha) and I felt so incredibly refreshed and energised!

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    • It’s so true right?! WE’RE WORKING HARD HERE, GIVE US NAPS AND CAKE, PEOPLES.😂 Also I envy your hiatus! haha. I need to take one but guagihg. I’m thinking I might over Christmas a bit?

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  41. Yeah, not being able to catch up with the Book Blogging community is pretty much why I’ve given up, I’ll still write Book Reviews, but the truth is that as I can’t keep up, it’ll never be something I do full time. That and I can’t concentrait on a single topic. Congrats on your Nanowrimo project, over-achieving as usual :D. Please make sure you’re taking good care of yourself, creative burn out is a pain in the arse, trust me on that

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  42. LOL You are hilarious!! I feel your pain. It’s actually hard work being a book blogger. I just started a book blog back in Oct. I work full time and it’s a battle finding time to do everything outside of that job! ha
    But it’as all worth it in the end and I love doing it! 🙂

    I also feel your pain on social media. If you take your eyes off half a day – it’s like you missed an entire month or something. hahaha

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    • I’M SO GLAD YOU ENJOYED THIS POST.😂 And it is a full time job haha, right?! I mean I love it but wow, blogging and being a bookworm should honestly be an excuse for way more naps.😂

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  43. This is so relevant. I love book blogging and it’s my number one passion and hobby in life (and the one I’ve probably stuck with the longest) but I am exhaustedddd all the time. Basically all of my free time is spent working on it when I’m not working full time and while I”m so thankful for it it’s also like a job in and of itself! Also I mostly blog on weekends because I don’t have time to during the workweek and I swear to God I just spend hours upon hours playing catch up because 5 million things have happened in 5 short days.

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    • I totally hear you!! It IS quite a job, and it’s very intense and also super-time consuming! I don’t regret it at all,😂 but totally acknowledge how exhausting it is ahhh. I need a 7 year nap.

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  44. OMG!! This is the best one I’ve read in such a long time! I agree with it all and I just want to say thank you for making me giggle today! I’m still in a food coma and i went out shopping yesterday so………all I want to do is read!!!

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  46. Catching up with the fandoms is HARD.
    I mean there is always just so much going on! The fanfictions, new editons, companion books BLAH BLAH BLAH

    I mean I started the whole Shadowhunter chronicles like a year ago and still haven’t caught up because I read Lady Midnight halfway THREE FREAKING TIMES and somehow had to leave it and now I am at the point where I don’t want to read the first 300 pages and yet have only a vague idea what happened in them. AND DID I MENTION MY SOUL EATING NEED TO READ LORD OF SHADOWS ?!??

    Tiring as fúck.

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  47. Oh my goodness I can SO relate. There are just TOO many things. Sometimes people will be like “do you just read all day” and I’m like NO. YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. I READ AND TWITTER AND BLOG AND BOOKSTAGRAM SOMETIMES AND BOOKTUBE-WATCH AND ADD HUNDREDS OF BOOKS TO MY TBR. I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS NONSENSE THAT YOU CALL A “LIFE”. 😂😂

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