If there are two things bookworms are great at collecting, they are (1) books, and (2) stereotypes.
Obviously we’ve all got the first one down and don’t need any lessons. (And if you’re not a tremendous book hoarder yet, don’t worry. Your time will come to rise in dark glory.)
But the stereotypes. OH THE STEREOTYPES. We bookworms get so many. I think a lot of them are self inflicted because a lot of us do tend to fit the moulds. Like the nerd in movies is always wearing glasses and using big words and well…I know bookworms like that, so the stereotypes rarely pop out of the ground like half baked lamingtons. * We started it and they are often true. Sheesh.
* If you don’t know what a lamington is, first of all: YOU LIFE FAILURE. And secondly, it’s an Australian delicacy of cake dipped in chocolate dipped in shredded coconut and it’s what we eat to repel the bunyips, usually in the dead of night, while the tea in the billy whistles against the gum trees. With the leftovers, we often smear them on our skin as protection against the raging sun.
But how many bookworm stereotypes do we truly fit?! Because I absolutely fail at most of them. But at least I fail majestically and with flying colours so that counts for something, thanks.
Anyway.
Today I want to list some common bookworm stereotypes and see if I fit them or not!
This will be totally enlightening as to whether I’m a walking cliche or not. And I just want to also point out that ALL bookworms are perfect the way they are. Unless you use books as a plate for your tuna and egg salad sandwich and then no. We shan’t be friends. Go back to the dark hole you crawled out of, you criminal.
1. BOOKWORMS WEAR GLASSES.
If you see a bookworm in a film there is like a 98% chance they’ll be wearing glasses. Glasses are an age-old indicator of INTELLIGENCE so this makes perfect sense. Bookworms are clearly intelligent. We absolutely do not say “Oh wow a book sale I should buy five books to save money even though I’m actually spending twice as much as I intended!” so that makes us Super Smart™.
Also apparently reading ruins your eyes, so glasses = battle scars.
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For me? Nope I don’t wear glasses!! Despite my childhood consisting of my mum walking into my room and saying, “IT’S SO DARK IN HERE WHY DON’T YOU HAVE YOUR LIGHT ON YOU’LL RUIN YOUR EYES.” Ha! Apparently I have super eyeballs or else my comeuppance is still coming.
2. BOOKWORMS DRINK TEA AND WHILE READING.
You know all those “time to cosy up with a book and a cute of tea” slogans that are, you know, everywhere? Hmm, it’s a huge stereotype. If I had a dollar for every time I heard bookworms like “reading + drinking tea” I would be able to afford to be Caesar in Rome in 44 BC and have someone feed me grapes while I languidly reclined on a purple couch and dictate scrolls. Time travel is expensive ok.
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Hmm, false. For me: very false. I don’t even like tea unless it’s chai and I’ve made it myself. I do like hot chocolates but I don’t drink + read because who has the coordination for that?!
I don’t even drink coffee either!! I’m actually taking “epic fail” to a whole new level when coffee makes me sleepy instead of hyper. What is this.
3. BOOKWORMS THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY READ AND GET VERY SMART.
I do like this stereotype and it fits with the whole glasses thing some of us have going on. Books = knowledge = you must be smart to consume them!! ABSOLUTELY MAKES SENSE.
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I’m going to be wild and claim true AND false for this. I definitely think a lot and books have encouraged me to think about human rights, morally grey questions, and also cake. But I also am 500% okay to read a book and not think too much about it. My brain gets very exhausted and no I don’t analyse everything I read. I actually loathed analysing things for school. If I have to pick apart an author’s intent…nope.
So super smart analytical bookworm?! SOMETIMES. But not always.
4. BOOKWORMS HOARD BOOKS.
I think it’s very unlikely to meet a bookworm who doesn’t, at least, own a few hundred books. I mean, a lot of us CAN’T buy a ton of books for various reasons…and hey surprisingly I’m not a huge book buyer myself since I get the majority from library book sales, from publishers, as ARCs, or I scoop them out of the goblin’s gutter and run away screaming. But still I hoard. OH do I hoard.
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Yes I am one heck of a book hoarder. Like I said above, I don’t necessarily buy a lot of books, but I somehow still manage to acquire a sheer bucket ton of them and they pile up into my room until I nearly die. When I moved house in June last year, I counted that I had 600. Which is a lot but it’s better than my childhood where I collected grocery magazines, ice cream sticks, sequins, and rocks.
Collecting books is way way more useful.
5. BOOKWORMS HAVE NO OTHER HOBBIES OR A LIFE, JUST BOOKS.
Because free time is scarce so obviously we put it towards books right?
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Oh haha … hahaha…um, yes this is true for me. Very true. Sometimes I pretend I have hobbies outside of reading like, for instance, origami! And then I realise I’m doing origami and listening to an audiobook. So the stereotype here is strong. Even my life career is being an author, which is: books. I literally can’t do anything apart from them.
And yes, people have tried to convince me there are other things in the big wide world out there. But do you KNOW WHAT’S OUTSIDE? Snakes. And crowds of people. And nature. And death.
No.
6. BOOKWORMS WANT TO BE WRITERS.
This didn’t occur to me until a few years into blogging that this even IS a stereotype. But it is! I see a lot of bookworms eating frustration while they say “No!! I don’t want to be a writer I just like books!” So while I think it’s a logical conclusion, it’s obviously a stereotypical assumption.
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Well obviously it’s true for me. Did I mention I have a BOOK COMING OUT 7TH OF JUNE?! I MENTION IT OCCASIONALLY HA HA HAH. Like every day mostly. I am a true cliche and rumour also has it that I’m just a book on legs.
7. BOOKWORMS PREFER PHYSICAL BOOKS TO EBOOKS.
There’s so much righteous purist yelling over this one which is, quite frankly, absurd. Books are books, no matter the format or how you get them into your brain! Which is why if you eat a piece of paper it is 100% still reading.
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I’ll actually cheat again and say yes and no?! Because I will always always choose a physical book because I love holding them, smelling them, photographing them, using them to stand on and be normal heigh because I’m only 5’1. BUT. eBooks are so frikkin’ useful I couldn’t be without mine. Like just now I was holding my 3 week old nephew (who is adorable by the way) and it’s way easier to read from my ipod while he sleeps cutely on me than wrangle a paperback. Also ebooks are easier to hold when you’re tired. Or travelling. And ebooks are cheaper.
Soooooo.
8. BOOKWORMS ARE ALL INTROVERTS
I make a lot of introvert jokes on twitter because, well, HELLO HAVE YOU MET ME. I’m so shy I avoid my own mirror and I have the social skills of tree stump. At least I’m an adorable tree stump. However I knooooooow this is just a stereotype. There are extroverted bookworms!! They exist!! They are probably very outnumbered here, but I RECOGNISE YOU, EXTROVERTED-BOOKWORMS, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO SPEAK TO OTHER HUMANS. Also ugh. Why.
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So obviously yes I fit this stereotype like a potato fits into our hearts. Metaphorically. Please don’t put a potato in your hearts, kids. In fact, don’t do anything I say, ever. Just to be on the safe side.
So I’m a huge introvert. I’m so introverted the only thing extra about me is how much I like books.
9. BOOKWORMS LOVE GOING TO BOOK STORES.
Because this is where the books are. OUR LIFE SOURCE. I mean, have you ever walked into a bookstore and not stroked spines as you strolled down the aisles whispering, “Mine mine mine” like one of those seagulls in Nemo!? HMM?!?
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Surprisingly false for me! I’ve been into ONE bookstore in the last…oh…3 years maybe? Because truthfully: I CAN’T AFFORD BOOKS FROM BOOKSTORES. I’m sorry. I have to buy overseas or I don’t get to buy. (I’m talking $12 on Book Depository vs $18 in an Aussie bookstore for a paperback.) I hate that I’m not supporting my country, but I can’t?!? So I find bookstores too frustrating, even just to peruse. Also I don’t…even…have one in my tiny town.
10. BOOKWORMS THINK THE BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE.
I am almost entirely sure there isn’t a bookworm that hasn’t been mortally stabbed by a horrific movie adaption at some point. I will say that. But mostly when you hear bookworms talk about a movie, they’re going to say: “BUT THEY CUT OUT THIS IMPORTANT SCENE, THE FOOLS.” And rant for 9 hours.
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For me?! False. I actually like some movie adaptions better than the books! Is that some sort of bookworm sacrilege? Hmm?? Probably yes. But The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are A+ movies and I have no interest in the books. The Help movie is SO GOOD! And look, I’m even going out on a limb here to say I really really like Percy Jackson 2 (no, not the first. Even the Greek gods will not forgive the first). Mostly because of Luke. Or, you know…all because of Luke. But anyway. SOMETIMES THE MOVIES ARE BETTER.
tell me if you fit some of the really really obvious bookworm “stereotypes”??? and are there any you totally are the opposite of?!? do we share any stereotypes in common?! and have you ever liked a movie BETTER than the book!? (the crowd gasps)
Okay ahah I’m like an ambivert? And so I get some introvert stuff but I’m all alone in the extrovert side of me SO WHATEVER. I shall just rot away here because I am un-relatable PENGUIN. I still can’t forgive you for liking the Ender’s Game movie BETTER than the books but WHATEVER!? I LOVE going to bookstores and only on 1/10 on my vistits there do i actually buy books. I normally just wander around the bookstore and just pick up all the books I can never have? It’s really despressing to be honest. However, my library and bookstore are quite close so I go the bookstore then to the library to see if I can borrow any books I saw in the store and that usually makes me very happy 🙂
YES!! Some bookworms DON’T want to be writers and that came as quite the shock for me because…I LOVE CREATING MY OWN WORLDS AND PUTTING WORDS DOWN ON PAPER, how could you..not?!?!?! But like!! I totally get that just because ur a bookworm dosen’t mean you’ll be a writer! But I also think if ur a writer U MUST be a sort of bookworm? RIGHT?!
AND I ACTUALLY WEAR GLASSES AND DRINK HOT CHOCOLATE WHILST READING I AM THE TYPICAL BOOKWORM GOODBYE
I’m like 90% sure the only time I’ve ever bought a book in an actual bookstore has been on a clearance table.😂 Or maybe it was a 2nd hand store anyway? OOOPS.😂 But hey one day I will be rich and famous and I’ll walk into a bookstore and buy and actual book and it shall be GLORIOUS.😂
And I honestly blame my bookworm life 1000% on why I’m a writer. Like if I hadn’t grown up surrounded by books, I wouldn’t even have a career now? *gasps* I CAN’T IMAGINE IT.
I actually fit most of these stereotypes. I don’t have glasses though, I’m definitely not an introvert and I have a few more hobbies than just “books”. So like 7 out of 10. Guess most stereotypes are true after all.
Although I’m kind of half and half with books are better than the movies, Like, yes, there are SO many cases where the book is better than the movie, but like then there are some where its the other way round and some where I haven’t even heard of the book until after I’ve seen the film, which generally leads to the “film is better than book” line.
And I’m half and half with number 3. I read so many books and you’d think I’d be super smart but only some smartness seems to rub off on me.
…I’m not even sure if what I wrote there made sense.
Number 6 ummm like are we talking writing professionally or writing for fun? I had assumed that most people who like books would also enjoy writing, even if it’s just for themselves? I feel like my brain has exploded now.
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*hi five for our stereotype winning* 😂 Hey but at least this definitely makes us true bookworms right?!😂
And yes! I’ve watched some movies and not even known they were books until later. I think I actually did that with the Help. And also with The Princess Bride and Mary Poppins!!
I’m actually not sure?! It’d be interesting to do a survey and see how many bookworms are also writers…
I loved the Hobbit, but I have to agree about LOTR. I tried! But it’s just a big, fat nope.
I envy you about the glasses! I don’t wear them. And I would say I’m lucky to have held out till 30! But. I think it’s a matter of time. My eyesight has been deteriorating since I started blogging because of increased time at the PC. So I do a lot of audios to compensate now, but it’s the way it is. One day I might have to wear glasses. I’ve always been shortsighted, but not quite enough to actually have to wear glasses.
And I also dislike bookstores! For the same reason xD I feel poor! Bookstores are great if you’re the kind of bookworm who reads 5 books a year. But not if you’re like me and you xD I’ve already read 5 books this month… holy god, I would not have the money, AND the space! In fact, that’s why I have stopped lying to myself and admitted that I prefer e-books. I’d still love to get SOME paper copies, of course! But since I’m international, and it’s probably not happening, hey. I love e-books!
Great post 🙂 oh, and you can totally reply this comment in two weeks xD I know how it is 😀 reply others first…
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I actually took LOTR with me when I went to China for a month (this was ages ago!) so it would be my SOLE book to get through.😂I literally didn’t read anything for a month because I couldn’t bring myself to be so bored ah ahhaha. Whoops.😂
Aww no I really hate that your eyesight is going, that must be so frustrating (and a bit scary). 😭😭 Audiobooks are fantastic though…I use them for multitasking all the time!
And yes exactly right?! If I read like, ya know, 10 books max a year I could probably afford bookstores.😂 But imagine actually buying ALL the books we read?! I CAN ONLY DREAM OF BEING THAT RICH.
(Hey I’m just going all out of order here and pretending my other post with 100+ unanswered comments isn’t yelling at me.😂)
You. Went. To. China. I am so impressed! That’s such a big and scary trip! How did you manage? Trips are the most stressful thing to me, and although I’m not autistic, I think we can both relate to the whole “I need my routine and safe spaces” kind of thing. How did you deal with that? SO AWESOME :O I would have lost myself in a puddle of anxiety xD but, tangents… anyway, I can also totally relate the LOTR mishap. Nothing to read for a month though!!! THAT’S the real nightmare here. I feel my question about the anxiety puddle deepen. I would have probably attempted to read Chinese books at that point xD
Speaking of which, yeah, I have like 130 comments in need of answering on my blog. So I am procrastinating here as you can see 😀 hahaha….
BTW, are you back home yet? It’s been a while!
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It was about…oh wow, maybe 8 years ago now?! I wasn’t diagnosed autistic at that point but how I handled (by which I mean: didn’t handle) a ton of situations makes SO much more sense.😂😂 It was extremely loud and overwhelming. I do have a lot of fond memories, but overall I think it’s one of the biggest reasons I now hate travelling so much.😂
(I’m STILL TRAVELLING PLS SAVE ME.)
I can totally get that. Noise is the worst thing. It can make my day go to hell, and nobody understands -.- people in offices, right? IT’S ALL ABOUT CHATTER. Be glad you’ve never been forced to work in one of those xD I am so happy I work at home now, and you know, I constantly keep getting asked, OH BUT DON’T YOU MISS THE PEOPLE, and I keep coming up with original polite answers as to why I’m fine, while laughing maniacally inside about MISS THE PEOPLE OMGLOL.
You are STILL travelling?? Is this like a Cait torture session or something xD how are you handling this OMG. You are a super hero.
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I love this! Especially because I’m almost complete opposite from you on these clichés 😀
I love both coffee and tea, but I don’t drink while I read – I don’t want to ruin my book when I forgot to open my mouth as I tip my cup…
I wear glasses (obviously, my flashlight didn’t work as well as your flashlight when I was younger!)
I prefer e-books, but I have a whole ton of paperbacks, too, because book conventions – and signed books are the best!
I don’t want to be a writer. I don’t have the patience for it. Like, at all! I’ll let you people do the writing, and I’ll stick to the reading and the blog-posts.
I love going to bookstores when I’m abroad. But here in Switzerland, I have the same problem you have, books are just TOO expensive.
I totally agree that some movies are awesome, or even better than the books. I enjoyed Me Without You the movie, but I wasn’t too fond of the book.
I’m definitely an extrovert, even if I also need some quiet time every now and then. But I love being with people – preferably, they’ll come to my place though, that way, I don’t have to leave the house.
Other hobbies? What is this thing you talk about? I guess watching Netflix might count? If anyone can persuade me to close my book long enough to watch an episode of our favorite show together 🙂
I also really think bookworms are all very smart people. I’d even take it a step further and say that most of us are also very empathic people 🙂 That doesn’t mean that I analyse and think about all the books I read. But some just entertain me while I read them, and then that’s it – job is done.
Awesome post, Cait 🙂
I’m so terrified of betting messes on my books too, so I’m with you there.😂😂 But I love how we’re like opposite on so many of these!! (And omg how did I not realise you lived in Switzerland?! That’s fantastic!…except for the part where books are so expensive. So I hear your suffering there, aghggh.)
Also yay another extroverted bookworm in the wild!! I feel like your kind is few and far between?!😂
I’m pretty sure Netflix can TOTALLY count as a hobby outside of books haha.
I DO wear glasses, but NOT for reading so… And I don’t drink tea (casually breaks a British stereotype along with a bookworm one), but I am an introvert and I do prefer physical books.
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You basically have to drink tea if you’re British right?! iSN’T IT THE LAW?!?
I fit some and not others, like no I don’t wear glasses (well anymore, I used to have them when I was little, but my mum thinks I just didn’t want to cooperate in the eye test because I barely wore them and never had any problems!). I also hate tea, and coffee. I might occasionally have a hot chocolate whilst I read, but very rarely, I’m scared to have liquids around my books in case I spill. I do think about what I read and I have learned a lot from books, but I wouldn’t say I necessarily overanalyse everything I read, so that’s kind of a middling one, like you. I definitely hoard books, I don’t think I know a bookworm who doesn’t. I do actually have hobbies outside of reading (shocker I know), I write, I watch way too much TV and movies and I occasionally even venture out into the world and do trampolining and horse riding. I also fit the writer stereotype, I have two books on the go at the moment, one waiting for edits from my CP and the other still in progress. I do prefer physical books to e-books, but I will grudgingly admit that e-books have some benefits! I do love going to bookstores. whilst it’s great shopping online, I don’t get the same feeling as when I go into the bookstore. I do most of the time think the book is better than the movie, but there have been a few times where I’ve liked the movie more: Perks of Being A Wallflower, the first Maze Runner movie, Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, The Princess Diaries, all movies I liked more than the books.
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Ohhh you fit with a lot of mine too hhaha! MY LONG LOST TWIN, HI JO.😂 And omg I’m terrified of ruining my books due to being clumsy with food. I guess it’s another bookworm stereotype to want pristine books, but that one I fit SO BAD.
I’m so glad you have a life!😂 I have zero life…it’s quite amazing. Although I think in another universe, I would’ve been into rock climbing?! I really love doing it and I have like no fear and freak everyone out. So let’s just cut everything I said about books-making-me-smarter out. Because put me on a rock and I’m not smart.😂 (However I never fall!)
omg the Perks movie was AMAZING! And I think I liked The Maze Runner movie a teeny tiny bit more too!
Tea is my life, but then I am English so gotta live up to that stereotype. Out of all of them, I think bookworms are all introverts is the most accurate – like, yeah there are extrovert bookworms, but like.. where?? Probably out doing stuff. All the bloggers I know are introverts because we can’t speak to people in real life so.. let’s all speak to people on the internet instead!
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I know right?! of all the people who’ve commented here, I think about 3 have confessed to being extroverts.😂 So I think introverts do maybe gravitate towards books more?!
ahhahah so i actually fit into a lot of these stereotypes?? I have glasses, I love bookstores, I LOVE TEA (a mad hatter stan till the end), and I like writing!! but I’m an ambivert,, I mean I can relate to some introvert stuff but the extrovert side of me is all alone :'(
unpopular opinion but I liked the Mockingjay movies much better than the book?? Both part one and two. the actors are golddd and I love it. (the book frustrates me.)
other than that,, I’M BASICALLY THE BOOKWORM POSTER CHILD OH GODS
Hello fellow bookworm stereotype.😂😂 Hey but at least this makes us cool bookworms, right?! OR SOMETHING.😂 I actually haven’t seen the Mockingjay movie because I couldn’t handle seeing all my faves die again. How terrible am I ah ahaha.
I can totally relate to not going to bookstores bc…. MONEY WHERE? And I only get my reading glasses out when the text is really small.
However, I mainly read physical copies, because reading on my computer or phone strains my eyes so, so much! I really need to get a Kindle or something, because there aren’t many new books by authors from other countries where I live….. sob, sob
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I’ve got a lot to say to this post hoho so forgive me if this response is long.
1. My eyes are not so ruined yet so my life still goes on without glasses although I do wear anti-radiation glasses when I work on my laptop or read ebooks (I have a bad case of dry eyes). My mom constantly rants about me reading in the dark too and I may or may not have obeyed her pleas 😉
2. I don’t drink tea nor do I drink coffee. I do love milk and hot chocolate though because I’m such a big baby hohoho. Also I’m a paranoid so I don’t drink while I read in fear that I will spill what I’m drinking on my precious book. That is a capital crime and I’m so clumsy so no drinking while reading for me.
3. I’d like to call myself smart but there are many people who are waaay smarter than me. I get more knowledgeable because I read books though. Reading improves my writing and my vocabulary and it widens my perceptions so in a way it does make me smart.
4. This is a sensitive topic for me. I’D LOVE TO HOARD BOOKS BUT I SIMPLY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR THAT 😭 LET ME GET GOLD FROM SMAUG’S LAIR FIRST
5. I spend most of my free time reading but I do have other hobbies. I love watching movies and TV series. I’m also a frustrated sketch artist and painter. I also love to do calligraphy. So yeah I basically love killing myself slowly by balancing all these hobbies and fitting them into my very tight schedule.
6. I think I developed a skill in writing because of reading. I’m planning to put up a blog and improve my writing mainly because my sister encourages me to write (I say encourages but she actually screams at me for reading so many books and not writing at all. I love my sister).
7. I love physical books but my bookworm life will be nonexistent without ebooks. It really is cheaper but physical books just have their own kind of magic.
8. I’d like to call myself an ambivert. 4 years ago I was an introvert but now I can talk to other people without actually freaking out. I now talk a lot but that’s only when I’m with my closest friends. I still suck at small talks though. I’d rather be eaten by the ground and sucked in the Underworld than do small talks.
9. I LOVE BOOKSTORES. It’s like I’m stepping into a different dimension when I go in one. That’s why it’s such a great tragedy that my town doesn’t have a bookstore. It’s oddly comforting to know we’re the same on this one. I ABSOLUTELY DIDN’T KNOW YOU DON’T HAVE A BOOKSTORE THERE.
10. I’m 50/50 on this one. Adaptations always let me down but there are exceptions. The Hobbit and LOTR for example. I loooved the movies but THE BOOKS ARE JUST SO BLOODY BORING I’M SORRY. I also liked the tv series adaptation for 13 reasons why. ALSO I LIVE FOR THE HARRY POTTER FRANCHISE EVEN NOW (it’s not perfect but I still love it).
I disagree with what you said about Percy Jackson though. I JUST CANT STOP RANTING ABOUT THOSE MOVIES UNCLE RICK DOESN’T EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THEM HOHO. The first movie was meh but the second movie was a DISGRACE. I MEAN WHY DID KRONOS COME ALIVE IN THAT MOVIE I MEAN IT’S JUST THE SECOND MOVIE AND KRONOS CAME BACK ON BOOK FIVE AND HE DIDN’T LOOK LIKE A CGI DEMON EITHER. I’ll stop here now. The cosmos may crumble if I keep on ranting here.
Anyway, I don’t hate you for liking the second pjo movie. We can have our own views on things and I don’t bite other people’s necks just because they don’t hate the things I hate. I STILL LOVE YOU CAIT DON’T WORRY 😊
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I have never heard of anti-radiation glasses?! But I’m glad you’re protecting your eyes! My parents tell me to stop using screens so much buuuut c’mon now. The book community is on here.😂 And yes books totally do make us smart, even if we’re not noticing it! Although I always feel dumb next to my sister who is sUCH A NERD and like gets top marks at school and yadda ya…sheesh.😂 But I can read fast so that counts for something. (DOES IT?!)
And I totally blame my love for writing on reading!! the two match so easily!
And lmao “introvert” doesn’t mean you hate people!!😂I mean that’s a big misconception, definitely not helped by me, who actually REALLY hates socialising in real life.😂 But introvert simply means that being around people constantly is tiring and you do need “alone time” to regroup. It doesn’t mean you don’t like people or enjoy socialising!
(Omg the LOTR books are so so bloody boring, I’m with you 100000%.)
(I’m also glad you still love me. I CAN STILL LIVE.)
I wear glasses… though, not because I spent my whole childhood reading… I don’t really know WHY? It’s not fair, I don’t like them sometimes. But I must admit that sometimes too I actually feel proud of them because they make me look smart(er). I don’t have coordination to drink and read at the same time either. I LOVE coffee, but somehow I haven’t drunk tea in my entire life and I feel like a weirdo thanks to that cliche. ‘Cuz it’s true ! Everybody says reading a book is better with a cup of tea. I’d say true and false too, I like analysing books but not all the time. I get tired. BOOK HOARDER ALL THE WAY. I do have hobbies besides reading: writing, thinking about the last scene I read and telling my mom the whole story of my fav book because she doesn’t read as I do. I have a very busy life. I don’t believe all the bookworms want to be writer, but I DO WANT. A lot. And I know a few bookworms who write too. We’re really cool. I think the same way: Physical books are LIFE, but ebooks save us everytime we get into trouble. I used to be extroverted when I was kiddo, when I don’t really know now, I haven’t left my house like in four years so I like thinking that I’ve become introverted now, I have no idea of why. I seriously need help. I LOVE GOING TO BOOKSTORES, but just like you, I don’t have money and I want to cry so hard right now. I HAVE watched adaptations that are better than the movie and I don’t really feel like a criminal for liking a couple of movies more than the book, arrest me if u want.
I DID spend my whole childhood reading and yet no glasses?! I think it might be a myth that reading ruins your eyes.😂 Let’s just blame parents for bad genetics. *nods* Also coffee is tasty but so unsatisfying for me because I want to nap.😂 And omg my family is ALWAYS drinking tea and I just don’t get it…
I feel like we should have love for ebooks even if they are, obviously, still a littttle bit inferior.😂
Eight out of ten were true for me. Oops?
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We’re all just walking stereotypes here.😂😂
Hmm, I actually fit nearly all of these stereotypes apart from having no other hobbies or life outside of books. I actually enjoy a lot of things, including dancing, art, gaming and so on.
I’m so glad you actually have a life haha!😂I absolutely do not.😂
I hope the limb you went out on to say that you like the PJO movies falls.
>:D
jkjk ily cait
HOW DARE YOU, FIEND. I’LL TAKE BACK YOUR CAKE.😂😂 (And there is NO redemption for the first movie ok. Just the second.😂)
So I fit all these stereotypes except for the introvert side of things. Wow, I’m basically a walking stereotype 😂 Now, honestly, I’m wearing contacts instead of glasses, but I still like wearing fake glasses just for fun.
And please, I need a pot of chai every time I read. I can go for tea or coffee, but I LOVE chai..
I like most books better than the movies. I love the LOTR movies, though, and I might have thought Catching Fire was better than the book. It’s hard for me to say the movie was better, that phrase is nearly poison 😳 BUT I do really enjoy some film adaptions more than the book….not quite saying the movie is better 😂
Also, your book is coming out so soon!
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HELLO MY FRIENDLY WALKING STEREOTYPE. 😂😂 Hey but at least we’re together in this because I basically am too ah ahhah.😂 And omg Chai is amazing. Chai is life.
And ugh I know right?! It feels like such a traitorous moment to actually ever admit a movie was better…
(AND OMG SO SOON TILL MY BOOK. WHAT DO I DO WITH MYSELF I’M FLAILING EVERYWHERE.)
Alright, let’s see how many of these sterotypes I fit (btw, this would’ve made a fantastic quiz):
1. Bookworms wear glasses. Yes, sadly I do. I wish I didn’t. They suck. Especially when I fall asleep on a book beCAUSE THEN THEY GET SMOOSHED AND THEY HAVE TO GET FIXED and that just… ugh.
2. Bookworms drink tea and while reading. No, actually. I’m not the biggest fan of tea. I mean, it’s good…. but it’s literally just hot water with a leaf in it. I’ll have my hot water/milk with chocolate instead, thank you very much. And no… not while reading. Unless it’s a book I just have to read. Because then I run the risk of spilling all over my precious book. AND THEN THE BOOK IS HURT.
3. Bookworms think about what they read and get very smart. Haha, only sometimes. Most of what I read is sci-fi/fantasy and really all the thinking I do with that is a) will this ship get together and b) will all these people die?
4. Bookworms hoard books. YES. I have stacks…. everywhere. I have a bookshelf that is very deep so when you look in my room you only see one layer of about twenty books, but then I pull one out AND LO AND BEHOLD there’s twenty more. Now multiply that by three shelves. 😀
5. Bookworms have no other hobbies or a life, just books. Well this is…. partially true. Because I watch TV. And talk to (some) people. And… ANd…. AND I WRITE. but that’s a book isn’t it….
6. Bookworms want to be writers. Yeah, duh. I’ve been telling stories since before I could read or write. I just liked stories. But now I can actually be paid for those stories, so PAIN.
7. Bookworms prefer physical books to ebooks. I do. Mostly because I don’t have an ereader. And the screen hurts my eyes after a while. Which is why I go from doing stuff on my laptop to reading? So… yeah, I like the real books. The real books that will eventually drown out the space in my room.
8.Bookworms are all introverts. Um… yes. Very much so. I do not… I do not talk to very many people because people are horrible (not you, Cait) and I do not want to associate myself with horrible things. I already did my time while I read Twilight, thank you very much.
9. Bookworms love going to bookstores. YES. I live, like, waay too close to a Barnes & Noble and there’s a nice little indie bookstore with cocoa and all that and I just want to live there and never leave.
10. Bookworms think the books are better than the movies. For the most part, yeah. I mean, the first two Maze Runner movies were pretty good. I wasn’t too thrilled by the books (I only read the first two) and the movies actually kept my attention.
But please note that I am thoroughly insulted by your enjoyment of the Percy Jackson movie. Those were…. abominations. Total disgraces to the books. They literally got nothing right? I mean, where was Tyson trying to beat up a Hydra while holding a box of donuts? Where was Clarisse yelling “DUCK” and then firing on the heroes with like… five second warning? Where was Hecate’s island and Percy thinking Tyson was dead and LITERALLY ALL THE GOOD STUFF?
Regardless, I digress. You’re entitled to your own opinions, but my opinion of that movie HIGHLY conflict with yours apparently.
But we can still be friends. 😀
So, let’s see, I got a 8/10. Pretty close.
I KNOOOOOW!! I seriously wanted to do a quiz but I just didn’t have the time. Fail, I know!😂
But it’s kind of awesome that you also don’t like tea?! I feel like SO many bookworms (and writers!) are constant tea drinkers and I’m just here like…why. Whyyy. What’s the draw?! But the book hoarding. Love book hoarding. Will never never stop.
Ugh but I agree. People are weird. They gather together and, like, WARS AND DEVASTATION HAPPENS. Hermits are the kind of people that keep the world calm, right?! We should all learn from hermits. (Although internet people are great. I love internet people.😂)
I love the Maze Runner books AND Movies, but I think I’m in the minority for that ha. And omg PJ movies were just a hot wild mess, but the second one was funny okay?! LUKE.
My friend offered me raspberry tea once and I took to be nice and I ended up leaving basically the entire cup on her counter. I took, like, two sips.
I mean weird people are great but normal people are horrible? Normal people talk about sports and me, I’d rather talk about… well, literally anything else. Plus normal people judge you and weird people just shrug and say “Yeah, I’ve seen weirder.”
Luke was great, I agree, but I very much missed the scene at the end of The Lightning Thief where he’s just like “Hey, Percy, we’re buds, but I can’t let you live.” and gives him a soda and a pet scorpion (Did I say pet? I meant pit.). Also Percy as a guinea pig. We missed Percy as a guinea pig.
I made myself tea once to try and “get over it” and lmao, I did drink about two sips and then decided to go be a child somewhere else.😂😂
Ugh normal people are weird and they make things awkward. And yes to the judging?! Like on the internet nO ONE CARES that we just want to read/write all the time. It’s normal and fine.😂 There’s more acceptance online.
I often feel that one day I will say “THIS TEA, I LIKE IT” but every time I actually drink tea I say “Meh, today’s not that day.” and proceed to make hot chocolate.
EXACTLY. Plus the amount of irl people who take one look at my writing notebook and/or diary and ask “OH WHAT ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT?” and I’m just resisting the urge to say “You’ll have to find out when I publish this book.”
Well, I’m just saying that this would be an accurate description of me in a book: *pushes glasses up nose, sips from the mug of green tea she has on side sometimes while reading, still turning over the last book in her mind, looks guiltily over at her completely full shelf and remembers the two extra shelves and boxes of books in her attic, remembers her other hobbies but then thinks about how they do tie into reading, thinks that a career as a writer would suit her just fine, has a strong preference for physical books, is completely happy with not seeing anyone for the next week, and plans shopping trips around how many bookstores she can possible visit*
“Bookworm stereotypes? I don’t know what you mean.”
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I wear glasses, hoard books, AM an author (just revealed the cover for my seventh novel this week!), and … I don’t know if I have much of a life outside of books. I’m either writing or reading, or working at McDonalds so I can have money to pay for my addiction. I do game … but even there, I’m usually just there for story,
HOWEVER, I’m an extrovert, hate tea (I mean, I had a stint where I liked it, but I was a deluded apple that month), and actually prefer ebooks. See …. I have this TERRIBLE habit of skipping to the end of a book and spoiling it for myself, and it’s harder to do that in eformat. I still want the physical copy, if I like the book, but my reading preference is digital.
Movie I liked better than the book – the Hobbit films. The first two, at any rate. I still need to watch the third. I enjoyed the Hobbit the first time I read it, but then when I came back to it after reading the trilogy – ajaoijdsfs. Tolkien was completely unaware of what the Ring was at that time, and I like that the movies DO know.
I need to watch the third movie. I mean, I OWN IT. Extended version at that…
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YAY ANOTHER STEREOTYPE.😂 I suppose we’re supposed to crush our own cliches but like?!? They’re great cliches. We are doing a good job.😂 But I’m glad to meet another non-tea-drinker, because I swear…being a writer and not living on tea/coffee is so rare, right?!
I haven’t seen either of the second Hobbit films because I don’t have the attention span.😂 But the first was great! Too long for my distracted-ness, but fun!
lol I kept waiting for there to be one that wasn’t true, but oh well, I am a stereotype (though I do have other hobbies…that revolve around writing mostly).
I was expecting to not relate to most, but then the post started off with “YOU WEAR GLASSES.” and it was like, can you see through the screen and are currently describing me??? XD
HELLO FELLOW STEREOTYPE. *hi fives* I mean obviously most of our stereotypes are glorious because we invented them. So it works. *throws confetti over us*
(I SEE EVERYTHING. HOW OMINOUS IS THAT.)
Such an interesting post! I wear glasses. But I never drink anything while reading (I don’t like tea or coffee, I almost always drink water, but never when I’m reading). Number 3 is both true and false for me too. Some books make me think and sometimes I like to read books that are just enjoyable. I definitely hoard books. Books and reading is/are my main hobby. I used to want to be a writer, but not anymore really. I much prefer physical books over e-books, and will almost always buy a physical copy except in those cases where one isn’t available (ie. for short stories and novellas sometimes). I am definitely an introvert. I do love going to book stores (even if I don’t always buy something because they can be expensive sometimes.). I don’t always think the book is better than the movie, sometimes the movie is better. I’ve found that sometimes it depends on whether I first saw the movie or whether I first read the book. Of course, I can’t think of many examples either way right now (sorry!). There are definitely a few stereotypes we’ve got in common :).
I feel like it’s fair to have the meaty books and then also just the fun “dessert” book sometimes, right?! And also if a book annoys the crap out of me, I won’t want to stew over it for a while.😂Just read and forget! Ah haha.
And I will definitely choose to by physical over ebook UNLESS….the cover is horrible.😂 I’m that shallow.
I actually saw The Book Thief movie before I read it and I think that made me love it slightly more?! The acting was just so good. Eeep. (But I do adore the book obviously.)
I loved this post! It’s so interesting to see all of the different stereotypes for bookworms out there.
This might be kind of a weird question, but would you mind if I turned a post similar to this one into a tag? While I was reading it, I kept thinking about the stereotypes with which I identified. I also thought that maybe other people would like to join in on the fun as well!
Don’t feel obliged; I just thought it would be an interesting idea. 🙂
Oh yes for sure, it’d make a fun tag!! It’s not original by any means haha, I’m sure other bloggers have done similarly, so go for it! 😀 I can’t wait to read your version!
Awesome! Thank you!
XD I fit all the stereotypes except the one about drinking tea. I do like some teas, and like coffee (doesn’t keep me awake either but I like it). However, I don’t drink while reading. I have to pause it, drink the thing, and then continue reading, but I can’t concentrate on both. Tea and coffee demand concentration, yup.
As for books being better than the movie or not… I agree on LotR and Percy Jackson. I haven’t read the books and I’m not really that movtivated to do it. I liked the movies. I admit, PJ 1 was kind of weird, but it had its charms for me *cough* Logan Lerman*cough*. Also, I think a lot of us can agree that Catching Fire is one of those movies that are definitely more intense and amazing than the book. And I did read that book. It was just so brilliantly done and was what movie adaptations are supposed to be. An extension of the book, and with some creative liberties -carefully chosen-, a work that can even surpass the source material because of the visual elements. I think it’s all about ‘getting’ the source material.
Drinking ANYTHING + reading is honestly the work of wizards. I have no idea how people have that much coordination.😂
Logan Lerman is definitely the saving grace of the PJ movies ah hahha, but the second one at least seemed to care about being a bit smoother?! The first one was just so awkward and dumb.😂 And omg Catching Fire was AMAZING. I do love those books/movies equally, but they’re definitely adaptions that are done well. (And like when everyone goes on about Madge not being in the first I’m like…”What’s the big deal.”😂 They made it work!)
Extroverted bookworm! It’s a lot like being an introverted bookworm, except you scream about books at anyone who will listen without any reservations. And I LOVE BOOKSHOPS! Even though I can never afford anything. I just pretend I can and it’s basically the same. And does anybody actually drink tea while reading? I love tea and I love reading, but whenever I think about combining them, I just have an image of a tea-drenched book in my head. And congratulations on becoming an aunt! He can be your minion in your quest for world domination.
I can imagine the extroverted bookworm life would include a lot more wanting to discuss the books right?!😂 I just sooo wish I could afford the books in bookstores. THAT WOULD BE LIVING THE DREAM.😂
(Yesss being an aunt is so fun! He’s actually my 7th nephew!! SO SMOL AND FLOPPY.)
I agree with you on all but points 9 and 10. I absolutely love bookstores even when I can’t afford them and I can’t stand most movie adaptions especially for ya cause they typically dumb it down. And yeah the gods can’t forgive PJO 1 but at least they tried with the second one. I feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t like The Maze Runner movies but that’s mainly because I just don’t like most sci-fi action movies except for Star Wars, most superhero movies, and Lord of the Rings (which is what a book movie adaptation should be like with getting rid of what’s boring or unnecessary but staying true to the theme)
Bookstores ARE fun to just wander through.😂 Maybe if I had a good local one I’d be more keen on it?! But I usually just end up feeling sad because I can’t afford them AND I NEED TO READ ALL THE BOOOOOKS AHHH. Ahem. But yes, at least PJO2 exists to slightly bandage our horrific wounds from teh first movie. I actually love the Maze Runner movie! But I feel I’m the only one who likes the books.😂 (Also I confess I have never seen Star Wars.)
Bookworm failure checking in! 😛 I’ve got the glasses, the introversion, and the love of bookstores (wandering through the childrens’ section of a Barnes & Noble is like coming home <3), but that's all.
Excellent.😂We can be stereotype fails together haha!
Glasses: Check
Books and Tea: False for me too. I hate tea, and coffee. Commence epic fail music. Lol my mom actually blames herself for me hating tea, I had apnea as a baby so I would quit breathing, the Dr’s told her to give me caffeine to keep me breathing, it worked and she gave caffeine in the form of tea…to this day I can’t stand tea. And coffee makes my acid reflux/heart burn act up, also I don’t like the taste anyway lol. I do like Hot Chocolate but like you said, who has the coordination to read + drink? Not me! :p
Think about what they read: Same as you, both yes and no. I think sometimes but othertimes I just want a cheesy fun book and to not think.
Book Hoarder: YES, all the checks :p
Have no other Hobbies: False for me. I sometimes like play video games.
Wants to be a writer: For me…false I think. I used to want to as a child but now i’m happy just reading. Can’t wait for your book in June 🙂
Prefer physical books: Yes and no. I prefer them but I have way more Ebooks, because of all the free daily deals, plus even besides the freebies they are usually cheaper and they all fit on my tablet, meanwhile my phsical books are crying for space. I’ll happily read either format, a story is a story.
Introverted: True for me
Love going to bookstores: I would love to but i’m disabled and it’s difficult for me to get out of the house, so I just buy online…so..both I guess? I’d like to if I could more if that counts for anything.
Think the book is better than the movie: Usually true BUT sometimes movies are better! Like, for me with E.T. and Forrest Gump, the books…the pain..but the movies = <3.
🙂
Omg that’s kind of scary that you had apnea as a baby though. I totally get how that would ruin tea for you eek. I don’t really like the taste of tea and coffee feels like a waste of time soooo…hot chocolate it is.😂
I use reading as a break sometimes, so it’s nice to just not overthink occasionally ha.
THANKS ABOUT MY BOOK THOUGH. <3
And oh yes the free kindle books are really great! Or when the famous ones go on sale for like $3!?! I'm so there for that.😂
i definitely fit the glasses, the going into bookstores, the hoarding, the introverts, the wanting to be writers, and the prefering physical to ebooks. i also really liked percy jackson 2 (but i’ve also yet to read the series). and the one seires i HAVE read that i’ve seen in movie form is the twilight saga and breaking dawn part 1 and 2 was DEFINITELY better than the book (i mean this more towards part 2 because that fight scene was EPIC). i also hate analyzing books for school. they make reading so boring but, funny enough, after the essays analyzing them, i like them more.
*hi fives for how much we relate* 😂 I feel like analysing books takes the magic out of them?! It was always the most annoying part of having school reading (even though I love reading!)
Out of all of the stereotypes in the post, I’d say that I’m about half of them. Sometimes, the only thing I think I do is a blog and read. Which is sort of true, but I ACTUALLY have managed to OBTAIN a social life! I have friends, we go do things, my life is great! Also, I would say that I USED to be an introvert, but over the past two years have turned into a COMPLETE extrovert. I talk WAY TOO MUCH! When it comes to books, anything can happen. Good post as usual Cait!
Ahh I’m glad we’re all mostly walking bookworm cliches here.😂 Although it’s awesome you actually have a life too!! 😂 Also my sister used to be shy and bookish but now she’s super outgoing and loves doing ALL the things?! It’s funny how people change isn’t it?!
I have glasses! (But only because I need them to see.) 😛
I like tea! (And hot chocolate and a little bit of coffee.) Btw, do you know if you have ADHD? My mom does, and coffee has the opposite effect on her too. I think it’s common for people with ADHD for caffeine to do that do them. It’s something about the chemicals in your brain reacting differently to it I think, but I don’t think many people know about it. BUT IT’S OKAY! YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE! IT’S NOT AN EPIC FAIL! YOU’RE NOT WEIRD! (Okay, you ARE, but only in the best possible way. :P)
And yeah, reading can be way to exhausting to analyze every little thing for me too. :/
I definitely hoard books, but that’s because I buy way too many than I probably should. 😛
And I have other hobbies! Yes, I want to be a writer, and I have a blog about books, but they still count! 🙂 And I like watching movies and TV and being really artistic. Like lately I’ve been getting into bullet journaling and planning and drawing/coloring and stuff like that. I also took archery for PE credit in high school and someday I really want to do it again cuz it made me feel like Katniss or Merida! XD And also someday I want to get into photography and I like singing and I’m trying (and failing) to teach myself piano again via YouTube after 9 years. :O And for some reason I’m obsessed with cooking and baking all of a sudden. Maybe cuz I’m not in school anymore and I feel like I have no life? Idk. XD
I do sometimes use audiobooks and ebooks, but for some reason I feel like that’s cheating, so I definitely prefer physical books. And SOMETIMES the movie is actually better than the book! Like Nerve and Ender’s Game in my opinion. But only because I really didn’t enjoy those books that much. :/
I AM DEFINITELY AN INTROVERT! But that’s not necessarily because I’m a bookworm?
And I DO LOOOOOVE BOOKSTORES! I WANT TO WORK IN ONE! (Cuz then there’s the possibility of employee discounts? :P)
So yeah, since I have most of these down, I think I’m definitely a walking cliche. 😛 I even got myself a personalized planner that says “professional bookworm” on it! 😀 It’s awesome!
Also, I’m just curious, are we going to do another Beautiful People soon? I miss it! 🙂
AND I JUST REALIZED THAT THIS MONTH I’LL HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOUR BLOG FOR A WHOLE YEAR! YAAAAAY!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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HELLO BLIND BAT!😂 Just kiiiiddding. Actually my sister has glasses but is definitely not a bookworm, so I don’t know how that got mixed up between us.😂
I haven’t ever been diagnosed with ADHD but sometimes I wonder.😂 I do hyper-focus a lot but I also have autism and I know it has some cross-over symptoms with ADHD so that might be it?? But don’t worry I have thought of that too ah haha. Coffee seriously makes me nap and I basically eat a no-sugar diet but if I DO eat sugar…wow, it also makes me nap.😂
And isn’t it nice just to read and not THINK sometimes?! Reading can be like my quiet place and just somewhere to chill out so I like not having to analyse everything!
Ohh Archery is awesome and that’s so cool you were doing it!! I hope you get to again. And photography would be amazing right?! I have a good camera but 0% clue of how to use it. (But haha don’t worry, it doesn’t take long to absolutely fill your life without school. I’m SO busy and I swear I don’t even know how it happened.)
Audiobooks and ebooks are NEVER cheating!!! Don’t feel that way!! I actually loved the Ender’s Game book but holy heck the movie was amazing.
Hey at least we can be walking cliches together *hi five*
(I’ll get back to you on the Beautiful People thing!!)
(ALSO THANKS FOR STICKING WITH MY BLOG FOR SO LONG YOU LOVELY BEAN.)
Pshhhhh what are you talking about Cait! Bookworms don’t hoard books… *tries to hide my TBR pile*
I am sadly one who perpetuates the idea that bookworms wear glasses because gosh I’d be blind without them 😂
Oh and don’t even get me started on tea! Ya know I think I’m just not a fan of warm drinks because I don’t like coffee, tea, or hot chocolate…
PS: I noticed you slipping pictures of your own novel in there, you think you can be sneaky but I’m still gonna use my wizarding powers to reach through the screen and steal the book from you (but don’t worry, I’ll give it back after I read it… maybe)
IT’S DEFINITELY JUST A MYTH. Nothing to see here. *covers TBR with self to hide it too*😂😂
It’s funny though because my sister hardly reads at all and she needs glasses SO badly.😂 So I don’t know how that worked out between us, but not complaining! I’d be so frustrated with glasses.
(I’m absolutely being sneaking and slipping my book everywhere.😂I’m going to frustrate everyone into reading it when it comes out so I’ll just shut up about it ah hahaha.)
😂 that’s weird that your sister is the one with glasses but not you. Most of my intimidate family wear glasses so I’m not alone (but I did kinda go until 7th grade until I realized I needed glasses… I honestly probably walked around blind for years until someone pointed out that I needed glasses… 😂)
BUT CAIT WHYYYYYYYY! Honestly, I think just the cover alone will get a lot of people to pick up the book because it’s so gorgeous!
I know right?!😂Actually almost everyone in my family wears glasses! There’s 8 of us all up and I think only 3 are left standing without glasses.😂
7 is false for me. 10 is sometimes false for me. All the others are pretty true for me.
It’s interesting to see how we bookworms sometimes fit the stereotypes right?! 😜
Exactly!
Ooohhh I really like this post… I may have to borrow it…
But mostly I came here to say as a fellow Aussie, I too, rarely go into a book store. I buy all my books either secondhand (hello Gumtree and Facebook Marketplace), at Big W (they usually have at least have one of the latest hyped books for sometimes cheaper than book depository, plus they usually stock the big series) and Book Depository. Book stores are just so damn expensive here, the last time I bought a book from one was back when Angus & Robertson was closing all their stores and were selling loads of books for really cheaper. That probably makes me a bad bookworm? But I got bills to pay!
Ahhh that’s awesome you’re an Aussie too, I didn’t realise!! *Australian hi five* And Big W can be quite good I totally agree. Actually I found they had a book I’d JUST bought online…and theirs was cheaper.😂I was so mad. Haha. I hate how expensive bookstores are for us though?! Like $18 for a PAPERBACK?! I just couldn’t afford to be a bookworm if those were my only options.
Unless you’re doing a pre-order it’s always good to check big w first especially if it’s just come out because it is usually cheaper. I picked up the cruel prince from there a few weeks ago for cheaper than book depository 🙌🏻
Aussie bookworms have it hard man!
So for some of these I’d have to cheat and answer both, too! Like the glasses- I have, from a biological perspective, terrible eyesight and wore glasses since I was 5 and contacts since I was 10. But THEN, I had laser eye surgery so I mean, I don’t wear glasses but… because of technology, not by design. I also am not a tea drinker. I DO love coffee, but never while reading- can you imagine the potential mishaps!? I am an extrovert, which I know is unlikely around these parts. And I DO love a bookstore- sometimes I just go to see what finished copies of books I read ARCs of look like. That’s a totally fine use of one’s time, right? 😀 I have liked a couple movies better than the book, but definitely TV shows. Looking at The 100 and Handmaid’s Tale, there! This is so fun!
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Ooh so you’re like a GLASSES CHEATER! (Although actually it must be handy not to have to wear them?! I feel like I’d get so frustrated if I had to wear glasses.😂) And omg the potential mishaps with books + food/drink is just insanely probable. I’m not that coordinated. And I always get something on my hands which would get on pages and just noooooooo.
OOOH WE SPY A RARE EXTROVERT IN THE BOOK WORLD WILD. *gasps and points*
I actually like the Percy Jackson movies so much more that the books, I’ve only read the first two books so far and don’t know if I will continue but I wish they kept making more movies.
Well I am glad you liked them!!😂I can’t stand the first, but the second was kind of adorable.😂
FINALLY someone has made an effort to explain lamingtons to the rest of the world!
(@ everyone else: …that’s totally what lamingtons are. And what we do with them. You can’t question the Cait.)
SEE EVERYONE?! MY STORY IS TRUE. I WOULD NOT LIE TO ANY OF US.
I wear glasses xD
I don’t drink WHILE reading? I don’t want to spill anything on the pages…
I’ll just agree with thinking about what I read and being very smart… but then again, I spend more time thinking than talking. I literally live within my mind. Ugh
I used to not hoard books but now I kinda do? Yay for cheap books and charity shops!
Nah, I have other hobbies like language learning and cooking (but I am by no means a masterchef xD)
I do want to be a writer xD
I prefer physical books because less distractions
I’m an introvert
I like bookstores
And the book is usually better than the movie
I’M A STEREOTYPE *gasps*
Yayyy for hoarding books though!😂 I mean, I’m the same. I didn’t use to but now there’s more books than room for me in my life but OH WELL I WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY AH AHHA.😂😂
Fantastic post! I don’t fit most of these stereotypes as I don’t wear glasses, I don’t care for tea, I don’t write, I like to switch between physical books and e-books, I definitely read books just for fun too and not to learn something new.
I am an introvert, and I like bookstores but I buy most books online because stores in Belgium are expensive and don’t have a huge range of English books. I definitely do hoard books, though. It’s becoming a serious problem.
I agree with you on The Lord of the Rings and The Help, love the movies but I haven’t picked the books up yet. Also I did not care that much about Me & Earl and the Dying Girl when I read it but I was pleasantly surprised by the movie.
Have a wonderful week, Cait!
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Aww thank you, Lynn!! I’m glad we both break some of the stereotypes here together *hi fives* 😂😂 And totally relate with shopping for books online. The only downside, I find, is worrying the sizes won’t match what I have?! Sometimes I forget to measure.😂 And oh that reminds me I still want to see Me & Earl and the Dying Girl!! The book was really funny.
OH, HO. HO. DON’T I FIT THESE STEREOTYPES. This is such an accurate post and I find it absolutely hilarious. These are the stereotypes I fit or don’t:
1. I do actually wear glasses! 😀 I’m short-sighted. And my mum, too, yelled at me for reading in dim lighting. That’s something all bookworms face.
2. I never eat or drink while I read. I’m clumsy and the book will probably be a mess in 0.01 seconds.
3. I do think when I read! But about useless things, i.e: What did this character eat for breakfast this morning? Did they even eat? They’ll fall ill.
4. I do hoard books.
5. I do have a life that revolves around books and only books.
6. I love writing and would love to have a career in it.
7. I do prefer physical books.
8. I am the opposite of an introvert. I am loud and talkative and a huge extrovert. 😀
9. BOOKSTORES. *HEART EYES*.
10. Books < movies. Hehe.
I do think these are all self-inflicted. We bookworms are beautiful, wild creatures.
Another amazing and hilarious post, Cait, I loved it! 🙂
Have a lovely day!
Though I never buy in bookstores, just admire! Hehe. 🙂
Yayyy you are a bookworm stereotype too *hi fives* 😂😂 Although we’ll have to agree to disagree on choosing movies over books. 😂😂
I’m 100% the reading + tea stereotype (I will also drink hot chocolate while reading and rarely coffee), because I love myself some hot drink when I cozy up to read 😀 Apart from that I also fulfill quite a few bookish stereotypes with being an introvert, hoarding books and wanting to be a writer. Not to mention that you made me realize that all my hobbies have to do with books xD I think the only hobby that isn’t somehow related to reading (like writing or blogging) is watching TV Shows (which I don’t do that often) and occasionally baking 😀
I’m glad I’m not alone with all the stereotypes I fulfil too hhaha. *hi fives* And omg isn’t it weird to realise all our hobbies come back to books?! Like I even love photography but NOPE. I take photos of books so there we go.😂
*high five* Yeees, this really got me thinking, because almost everything I do is connected to books, there is literally no escape 😂
Can I just say that your explanation of what a lamington is (which no, I’ve never heard before) was so adorably Australian that I almost didn’t make it all the way through it because SO. MUCH. AUSTRALIAN. (I have Australian friends. They like to speak as much slang as possible around me to confuse the poor American. Really, I think they just don’t understand English so they made up their own.)
Anywho, on to the stereotypes! This was really fun list. So let’s see how I did…
1. Nope, no glasses (although, there was this one time when I was 8 where I so convincingly bombed the eye exam because I thought glasses were COOL and my sister had glasses and I wanted them that they actually gave me reading glasses … and then upped the prescription for the following two years because I complained I couldn’t see because they made everything blurry … ahem …)
2. Tea is blasphemy. That is all.
3. I’m going to claim true and false also. I tend to think about what I read, buuuut I’m not particularly smart. I do, however, impress my husband with how many things I refer to as “the thing’. (Maybe impress is the wrong word?)
4. I own books, but I do not hoard them. I like to pass them on, unless they are special in some way or something I’ll re-read. Just passed on my copy of Every Man Dies Alone, because it deserves to be read and someone I knew wanted to read it, so now it’s theirs to pay forward. 😉
5. Well, this is true and false again for me. While I’d LIKE to only focus on books, I’m unfortunately forced into having a life by the fact that I reproduced. It’s a silly thing to do. Also, I love volunteering, and they don’t let me read while I volunteer, because that would be too much happiness and it might just kill me.
6. Guilty as charged.
7. I almost prefer e-books, unless the book is really, really pretty. Because who doesn’t want to own pretty things? I’m also of Scots-Irish descent (read: frugal) and poor and a lot of e-books or cheap or able to be borrowed through my library (which is teensy and has sadly few books that I want to read).
8. Oh so much yes. I’m an introvert that passes as an extrovert as it slowly destroys my soul and eats away my sanity. (There seems to be a pattern. Maybe my real calling was as an actress? lol)
9. I would like to be buried in a book store, please. I can’t afford most things at book stores, either (I’m sorry, $25 for a hardcover that Amazon has for $15?). But I like to go in and window shop and just … hold the books and breathe in that new book smell. Also, probably create a list of things I eventually want to read either when I finish my TBR list or when I die and return as a ghost because of my unfinished business.
10. I was going to say I couldn’t think of any off the top of my head, but you’re right: Lord of the Rings movies are pretty darn good. The books were hard to get through (but I was young when I read them, too), but I loved the movies. So … way to drag me down. Jeez. I’m just as much of a sinner as you are now. D:
This was actually lots of fun. Hope you’re enjoying your time with your nephew! There’s nothing so precious as borrowing somebody else’s baby to cuddle (with permission, of course). Also, knowing you still get to sleep afterwards, because sleep is important, yo. xD
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Omg I’m glad you liked my lamington explanation!!😂😂 I just decided to hit you all with as much slang as possible in the tiniest amount of space. YOU’RE WELCOME.😂
I’m really relieved I’m not the only non-tea-drinker here!
And that’s super nice that you pass books along! I sooo have trouble doing that, even for books I hate?! I mean they’re handy still for photos, but I do need to do a bit of a clean out *gasp* 😂
Also going into bookshops and just…like…ENJOYING the sight and feel of books is totally a grand thing. I would love to do it more if I had a local bookshop and also didn’t want to just hole up in my room and read.😂 So maybe I wouldn’t do it even if I had a local bookshop. But I at least like the thought?!
(And my nephew is ADORABLE AND SO SQUISHY.)
I have glasses, I sometimes drink tea, I am not smart, I hoard very much, once and a while I feel like I might possibly have a life, I want to be a writer, I prefer physical books, it totally depends how I feel but usually I’m more extrovert, I LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEE bookstores, and usually I like the movie better than the book. (Like how they totally RUINED the first series of Percy Jackson with the movie! That was like, the only Percy Jackson series I even really liked. Why.)
THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE TOUCHED THE PERCY JACKSON BOOKS BASICALLY IF THEY WERE GOING TO DO IT SO HORRIBLY UGH. I want a remake, but like animated and a whole series so they do the books properly.😂
If my own books were ever made into a movie (or any of my favorite books) I’d rather that they just use the actual BOOK for the script! Word for word! Play by play! Every expression, every snort, every BREATH. And if it was hours upon hours long, I would STILL GO AND WATCH IT. I WOULD BUY IT. 😂
Most of these are true for me. XD Except I’m not a huge tea drinker. I pretty much only drink iced tea when I’m at my mom’s house, I drink coffee in the morning before work, but that’s not during reading time.
I do have other hobbies (blogging, photography), but those often intertwine with reading so…
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Coffee TASTES good but ah hhaah it just does nothing for me but make me sleepy.😂 I love the smell though omg. And yes I’m the same with hobbies! Everything always ends up back to being related to reading.😂
I don’t drink the traditional tea that those slogans talk about lol I drink southern sweet tea, but not while reading because I am prone to spills haha.
I definitely hoard books, but I don’t want to be a writer. I’m horrid at it!
And as for the introvert stereotype… I guess I’m a mix?? I mean I have friends, I love joking around with people, but also people are exhausting and I often need quiet time???
Lol fun post!
I’m glad I’m not the only one terrified of spills haha!! And oh oh “introvert” doesn’t mean shy or antisocial!! It purely means that you need time alone to recoup your energy before going back out with people! I mean I personally AM a shy-introvert, but you can definitely still have bubbly friendly and outgoing introverts! It’s just a label to say how you regain energy. 😉
There are definitely some films that I liked better than their books counterparts. The Jane Austen Book Club, with the changes and editing the film did, was much better on screen than page.
I liked the first Percy Jackson film better, actually. ^^; The second felt so rough. What we need is a streaming service to make a proper show out of the books so they have the time to tackle all the events.
Omg that’s hilarious how we’re opposites with the PJO movies! !I feel like it’d make such a good animated series though?! Like the How To Train Your Dragon creators! But as a TV series so we get the books done right.😂
I actually do wear glasses but they’re not for reading. Yes, I hoard books. No, I don’t have any other hobbies. I do, in fact, envy those who are able to drink/eat while reading because that is an ART, my friend.
xx Kenzie
Omg it is such an art…I do not have the coordination for food + reading. I mean i tried once, and it WAS with lasagna which, granted, is a really bad idea.😂But it basically looked like a murder scene afterwards.😂
I’m kind of a bookworm stereotype–I do spend a lot of time reading and own lots of books (like 40 though not 600) but I think these stereotypes are silly. I’m an introvert, but I’m not shy, and I don’t wear glasses or stay inside all day (because reading outside is really fun)
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I think the stereotypes can be fun haha! But obviously they’re never going to fit everyone.😂
Like you I fit some, but not all of the stereotypes! And yes…..I’ll admit I liked a couple movies better than their bookish inspirations. The first was Stardust (I know, I KNOW) because everything about it was so pure and perfect and I really don’t think the book stood a chance, I’m so sorry to Neil Gaiman. The other is Princess Bride, which I read years after first seeing the movie. And it’s got a lot…of lists??? in it? Like, four pages listing out what a minor character was packing for her trip. I know it was supposed to be funny, but it wasn’t as funny as ROUSes or “Inconceivable!” so. Oops.
Omg I’ve heard that about the Princess Bride! to be honest I didn’t even know it was a book for ages.😂😂 HOW BAD IS THAT hahaa.
You aren’t missing out, trust me!! It’s one of the least shameful books to not know about 😂
I’m Australian too and I agree, lamingtons are delicious. They totally repel bunyips because I haven’t seen one yet!
I relate to a lot of these stereotypes. I love perusing bookstores, even though I can’t afford to buy books. I love Book Depository because books are so cheap. I also feel bad for not supporting Australian bookstores, especially indie ones.
Most books I like better than the movies, but there’s a few exceptions. I liked the Allegiant movie much better than the book, mostly because it took out all of the new introduced boring backstory (I usually hate when movies take out the backstory).
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Seee?! Clearly we’re saving our lives by eating lamingtons. GOOD JOB TO US.😂
Book Depository is honestly a life saver. I know it’s not the *best* way to buy, but it’s either that or don’t have books so like??? Here I am.😂 Hopefully one day I’ll be a rich and famous author and can support Aussie bookstores more.
I FIT INTO MOST OF THESE STEREOTYPES, OH DAMN. Even the glasses one! 😂
And yes, I totally relate to the love of physical books – but let’s be honest here, e-books are darn convenient at times.
Congrats on your book!! I can’t wait to read it, because that synopsis has me HOOKED. *claps*
Totally true right?! Like with ebooks you can fit a whole library in your pocket, and who’s not going to make use of that sometimes.😂😂
(OMG THANK YOU ABOUT MY BOOK YOU’RE MAKING ME FLAIL.)
Glasses, check. Tea lover, check. Book hoarder, check. Prefer printed books to ebook, check. Love bookstores, check. Looks like I am a bookworm LOL
And there is not a single movie that would be better than book but Lord of the Rings trilogy. I adore Tolkien and his book, but Peter Jacskon’s trilogy is the beeeeest 🙂
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YAY BOOKWORM CLICHE HI FIVE!!😂😂 And omg I’m glad you adore the LOTR movies that much too! They are so epic and total inspiration for me when I was a teen!!
Haha, what a list!
I should be wearing glasses cuz I can’t see fuck all, but so far i haven’t found a pair that don’t make me look like a complete dork.
I’m also an introvert…
Hate going to book stores. It’s filled with people.
Tea is ok, but coffee is better 😀
SEE YES THAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH BOOKSTORES.😂 Ordering online is so much better….except for the part where you aren’t sure if you’re getting the right sizes.😂 (Coffee is DEFINITELY an improvement on tea.)
I am a horribly cliché person, it seems. x’D I am a glasses-wearing, tea-drinking, book-hoarding, introverted, bookworm who loves going to book stores, reading physical books over ebooks, and wants to be a writer. So I really have no right to be insulted if someone were to make assumptions about my habits as a reader.
There are some exceptions to the things on the list, though. Like, I usually think the book is better than the movie, but I’m not a purist when it comes to watching adaptations. I like seeing how people interpreted the book differently in order to make sure it fit a film format. As much as I’d love to watch a 30-hour “Harry Potter” movie that keeps every single detail in place and indulges in all of the tiny subplots, I know that’s not realistic and very few of us fans would pay the money to see a movie that long. So I get that the movies are going to be different and that’s okay. (Unless we’re talking about the evil that is the first “Percy Jackson” movie, because that thing was a monstrosity.)
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HELLO MY FRIENDLY BOOKWORM CLICHE.😂 But in all honesty, we do get the BEST stereotypes so like how can we even not want to fall into them?!😂
I totally understand with the movies too. Like I saw The Book Thief movie first so it’s actually a teeny tiny bit closer to my heart than the book?! Which feels SO wrong since I mean…the BOOK Thief. *buries self* But I think movie-adaptions can make really satisfying stories even if they cut stuff out! (Like I have no problem at all with how they cut Madge out of the Hunger Games😂 People got so hung up on that haha.) And there is no forgiveness for the first PJO movie. Ugh.
Omg your book is coming out so soon, I need it Cait!! I can’t wait to read it and see what magicalness you’ve created for us. I love this post and while I definitely hate some of the stereotypes, they wouldn’t be stereotypes if they didn’t include some truth in them.
Great post as always,
~Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
I’M DYING BRITTANY. I CAN’T EVEN WITH HOW EXCITED (and nervous lmao) I AM FOR YOU ALL TO READ MY BOOK. *screams softly*
And so true right?! Stereotypes have got to come from somewhere.😂
hahaha loved this post! The stereotypes are real! I personally don’t wear glasses although when I look up from reading a book for hours my vision is a bit fuzzy…. so maybe I should be concerned about that? But will it be enough to get me to stop reading? Never.
Oh and BTW I tagged you in my most recent tag: Anti Valentines day! Great post! 🙂
Aww thank you for the tag!! (I actually don’t even care about Valentine’s Day so that should be perfect for me.😂)
And I actually never read long enough to get the fuzzy vision, but the other day I was reading and it was like dusk so my room was getting darker and I’m like “why is it so hard to read all of a sudden?” DUH CAIT.😂
1. got that one covered. I’m as blind as a bat. *hair flip*
2. nope, but only because i’m messy, and might spill on the book. also my cups of tea are so large i cant hold it AND a book what kind of wrists do you think i have. XD
3. if you tell me to analyse i wont do it. but otherwise i think about them a looooot even if its just imagening that i’m there and making sassy comments and staying positive to support the characters. 😛
4. ahh, yes. GIVE ME THE FREE BOOKS.
5. i have a hobby besides books. i call it the internet.
6. i mean, i WANT to, but AM i….that is the question.
7. heh heh i agree. also, give that baby a hug for me, i’ve seen him on your insta story and he’s so cute. <3
8. introvert. thats me. i loooove my friends, (friends are family, ya'll) but i need breaks. ohhhhhh do i need breaks. days at home with only my sibs to be loud….its restful. XD
9. i like bookstores, but i don't go often because my mom doesn't like the prices and she won't just take my sugestions to go and browse because she knows she'll cave and buy something. XD
10. the hobbit and lotr movies were really good, of course i have my complaints, but they're easier on the eyes than reading that STUFFY TINY GLOOMY FONT. but it could just be the books we have. i need a pretty version with large font. (bad side of the moves: ugly ogre close ups. i can ignore them in the books, but the movies just ShOvE tHeM iN yOuR fAcE) that and Pride and Predgidice. (I CAN'T SPELL, HELLLLLLLP) but any other addaption is just no.
anyway, have fun at your sister's! read a lot of books! hug the baby for me! (he is so cute i'm gonna DIE)
Most crazily, ~Olive
AH HAHAHA “hobby is the internet”…perfect. I am with you there.😂 Although to be honest, I do spend most of my internet time still doing something book related. wHOOPS.
Honestly books with tiny fonts are very torturous.😂 (And omg my little nephew is so so cuteeeee.)
Sacrilege! You like the Percy Jackson movie?! I will forgive you, only because I two enjoyed the Hobbit and have no interest in reading the book.
ONLY THE SECOND ONE THOUGH, SO FORGIVE ME. WE CAN HOWL IN RAGE OVER THE FIRST ONE FOR DAYS.
-pushes glasses up bridge of nose-
I don’t know if these apply to me or not.
I don’t wear glasses, but my sister totally go #geneticlottery Also, I’m pretty much an ambivert, I could be both introvert and extrovert depending on my mood 😀 I am a book hoarder too, but I have a breaking point where I just physically gets stressed when I have too many unread books on my shelves, hair loss and all. I totally agree that it could be yes and no on ebook vs physical (the age-old discourse) and book vs movie.
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Hey that’s awesome you’re an ambivert though!! You can fit in anywhere.😂DIVERGENT.😂 And omg I get stressed about the amount of books I want to read sometimes too…and then I don’t read any.😂
SAME for the tea one. I feel bad for not liking tea that much, but just… it is not tasty or appealing to me (unless its like fruit tea or a chai latte or something). But your standard Earl Grey? Its a no for me. And I totally agree that it requires too much coordination to hold a book at the same time :/
Also, I do not get why glasses are a stereotype? They have to do with vision impairment, not intelligence… even though yeah, there are a sizeable amount of bookworms that do wear glasses. But I just don’t think it should be a stereotype. What’re you gonna do though, right? It’s not the end of the world.
I do love bookstores and just going in there and perusing the shelves, but I also agree with what you said. Bookstores in NZ have the same price thing going on as Australia. A paperback could be like $23 in a bookstore and $14 on book depository, so obviously I get my books from book depository instead. (Although I do also feel bad about not supporting the local industry. Its a shame its too expensive.) Also I can find all the books I actually want on book depository, whereas I swear the local bookstore has like, 10 that I’ve even heard of let alone want. The YA section especially in NZ bookstores is just not a particularly good or enticing selection. We really do not have big bookstores like America.
I totally play into the introvert stereotype though, and am slowly becoming a renowned book hoarder hehe!
Also, I do prefer physical books to ebooks. I used to be a massive purist (forgive me for my sins) and be actively anti-ebook (I was young okay?), but now I respect that ebooks have their conveniences, but personally I’d rather be able to hold a book, and display it and admire its cover’s beauty, flip through the pages etc.
Anyway, this was a really fun post. I enjoyed it so much that I actually laughed multiple times (wow), so thanks!
Ugh ugh or green tea!? I just can’t…bleh. I’ll take chai or nothing basically.😂 I used to drink dandelion lattes but they sort of make me feel weird now so it’s back to hot chocolates like the mature soul I am.😂
And I KNOW! I think glasses being a stereotype is really silly, truly, since most people with glasses didn’t get them due to reading too much…more like bad eye genes?!
Ugh I hate book prices for us. *cries* And I feel AWFUL for not supporting local stores, because I keep hearing how the book industry in Australia isn’t doing well and I’m guess it’s because people like us just can’t afford to support it?! But like it’s crazy. Should I *not* read because I can’t buy local?! I won’t do that! So I have to buy overseas and just bleh bleh, it’s not fair. (Also I craaaave those big US bookstores…or like Book outlet where it’s $5 for a hardcover. LIKE C’MON AUSTRALIA/NZ. UP YOUR BOOK GAME.)
I used to be actively anti-ebook too don’t worry.😂 Now I love them so much. Like I just finished reading an epic ebook and literally went and bought the sequel and had it to start instantly….I love 2018.😂
AGH CAIT I LOVE THIS POST!!! i think my favorite one on your list is “bookworms are all introverts,” because i am, in fact, one of those mythical extroverted bookworms. SURPRISE! im so extroverted that in elementary school i was made fun of for “talking, laughing, and smiling too much” (which was supremely unpleasant but also like huh? why is it bad to smile and laugh a lot? is there something wrong with being happy most of the time???). i definitely merge my bookish and my extroverted sides, though, and use my outgoing nature to ramble about books nonstop.
i also love that you named “all bookworms dream of becoming an author.” again, this is a stereotype that i really dont fit at all! ive wanted to be a scientist since i was three. but that doesnt negate my love of reading! i do feel like this makes me the minority in the community, though. i definitely get odd looks and questions inside and outside the community when it becomes known that i adore reading but that im a scientist and not a writer.
HELLO MYTHICAL EXTROVERT. WE NEED TO GIVE YOU PLENTY OF CAKE AND KEEP YOU HERE BECAUSE YOU’RE SO OUTNUMBERED.😂😂 (Also I hate that extroverts are often told off for being out-going?! Like can’t we all just BE who we are?!)
Also that’s so awesome you’re going into science! 🎉 I think it’s ridiculous to think that having an interest in something = wanting a career. I mean I know I *am* that way for books, but like I love running but doesn’t mean I want to be in the Olympics.😂
Some good points were made here (especially with regards to the lamingtons), however, I do tend to fit a lot of the stereotypes: I wear glasses, I drink tea with my reading material, and I have a hoard of books. But due to a lack of storage space and cost, I’ve had to switch to mostly eBooks. As a self-published author, I don’t have a lot of time for paperback snobs (I couldn’t possibly afford to have my book in print at this point in time), especially considering the Australian traditional publishing industry has such a limited range of choices. But, on the other hand, if I’m doing a super in-depth review of a book (page quotes and all that jazz), it is easier to use a paperback than an eBook. With regards to book adaptations, I’m a bit iffy about it, most of the time I resign myself to a bad adaptation, but I liked The Hunger Games movie a lot better than the book, so I guess it depends on who is doing the adaptation and the source material.
OH GOOD. I’m glad you’re agreeing with my lamington origin story because I knew I was spot on for that. I’m such a well of useful and logical information. *nods*
I also think it’s just unfair these days to be a physical-copy-of-books purist!! There’s SO many good reasons eBooks help people (I know people who can’t properly lift books due to disabilities so ebooks save them so much) so like why can’t we all just go with what works for us without the war?!😂 I do agree flicking through paperbacks is easier, buuuut I LOVE how ebooks you can search for the word/phrase if you need to.
Absolutely, a lack of accessibility is a huge problem, and disability is a factor a lot of publishing houses don’t consider. Like now, there’s a special font you can use on edevices for helping with dyslexia. Then there’s the fact that, as an Australian, we generally have to wait for physical book copies. But I can go online and a copy of a book instantly, with no shipping fees attached. I didn’t realise you could search for phrases and words on eReaders. I’ll have to investigate this :).
I’m actually SO impressed with this copy of Stalking Jack the Ripper I found at the library (I’m visiting my sister’s library😂) but it was large print…and I’m like?! That’s so good that publishers are doing that. I can imagine that’d make the book accessible for a lot of teen readers, possibly with reading struggles or eyesight setbacks!
And the searching for phrases on ebooks is SO handy. Especially if you feel a book overuses a word and then you can see for sure.😂
Hello! It’s been a bit since I’ve commented, this post really spoke to me in many ways. It’s funny (interesting not haha) how we can be opposites in many areas, but still be in the same group – bookworms.
70% true. I wear glasses, drink tea or hot chocolate or milk (can’t stand coffee), reflect on what I read to broaden my knowledge base, hoard books, want to be a writer (I’ve given up on the whole “great American novel” thing and stick to writing my blog (for the creative side) and technical reports (for my day-to-day career), prefer real books to eBooks, and love bookstores (more on this to come)!
20% false. I have many other hobbies and am able to be successful with them and read! I have my own blog (Tea time with Melody Q), sing in two choirs, shop, watch movies, etc. I also consider myself an extrovert. While I am quiet when I first meet people, I don’t mind being with people and love mingling.
10% non-committal. That last one – the book vs. movie thing. For me, many times I do find the book to be much more enjoyable than the movies. Other times I think the movie is a delightful companion to the book (not quite a true representation). Still other times the movie is better than the book. Sometimes it depends on if I’ve read the book before seeing the movie and how much I love (or adore) the book. Example, Peter Rabbit is being made into a movie and I can tell by the commercials I will not like this movie at all (I think poor Beatrix Potter may be spinning in her grave).
Going back to bookstores. When I was little my mother would let me spend hours at the library just browsing the stacks and reading whatever caught my eye and breathing in that wonderful smell that is old books (that should be on your list as well #11 Bookworms love the smell of old or new books). if we went to any of the local bookstores, my parents would let me do the same in the kids’ section (ah, the smell of new books lol). I just love being among the stacks! You mentioned not having the budget for bookstore visits; what about used bookstores? Are there any of those in your area? Or does your local library have a used book sale? Sometimes I do find myself reorganizing the books if I’m in the store too long. You know, putting them back to proper alpha order by author then title (unless it’s a numbered series, then author and number).
Aww thanks for commenting, Xyra!! I always love chatting with everyone! And it IS funny/interesting how bookworms can fit some stereotypes and not others, right?! I love how we’re all such a diverse crowd. <3
I also love that you're an extrovert with plenty of hobbies. GO YOU!! Crush those stereotypes!😂
And I think the movie vs book thing can be SO wildly up-and-down. Like there are some movies which generally are so amazing and totally blow the book away.😂As controversial that is to admit. But then other times they wreck it SO badly....omgggg. It's just an insult.
And yess, I should've put the books-smell-good thing on the list! I'd be the cliche for that because I love how they smell.😂
(And there are thrift stores in my area but most of the books are super super old, but I do make use of them when I can!! I'd like to donate some of my unwanted ARCs there but I need to get around to doing that.😂)
Ah, yes, the thrift store shelves. They can be a boon or bust. In my neck of the woods, the thrift store offerings are mostly romances and most of those are “Amish p_rn.” (Nothing wrong with them, just not my cup of tea. 😀 ) Your ARCs would be a welcome diversion.
Haha no I agree! There’s tons of Mills and Boon in our op shops which is … nothing I will ever touch. And 39894 copies of Twlight.😂 I feel bad for Twlight haha but obviously people are really done with it!
I don’t wear glasses, drink tea, or get smart from reading, and I do have other hobbies besides books (assuming that eating and watching movies and belting Broadway show tunes counts?) but the rest of the stereotypes more or less apply to me. I am a truly predictable bookworm.
That being said, there are certain movie adaptions that I prefer over their book counterparts, such as Hugo, A Monster Calls, Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, and The Perks of Being A Wallflower. There are even movie adaptions that I have seen without reading the books at all, which feels evil, but I did it anyway. These include The Help, The Hunger Games series, Peter Pan, and Coraline. I love these movies but I just don’t have that much motivation to read the books. The bookworm inside me rebels at this, but it is true.
I sure hope eating counts as a hobby because I’m A+ at that one.😂
And omg yes the Hugo movie was AMAZING and much better than the book!! And I know we’re all supposed to be Evil Bookworms for seeing a movie first but like?!? It happens.😂 I saw The Book Thief movie first (GASP) and I might like it a tiny bit more than the book haha.
i totally agree “bookworms drink tea while reading” i always drink when reading and i always read with my glasses on, i love to feel in the mood when am reading, the feeling is great. I also agree with writing, because since i love to read books it improves my writing skill.
Just plain reading is absolutely the biggest key to becoming a writer! I wouldn’t be where I am now without all the books I’ve read. 😍
I fit some of these: I wear glasses, I drink tea, I’m an introvert, I hoard books, I’m a writer… okay I fit quite a lot of these, haha.
But I do also feel bookshops kind of overwhelming. They’re so expensive, and I’m so used to buying books secondhand, usually having already read them from the library, that I feel kind of uncomfortable buying a book at full price when I don’t even know if I’m going to like it? I’ll buy books by authors I really like and now that I live in a town with bookshops (yay Cambridge) I try and actually do that in proper shops, but back home there aren’t any bookshops anyway so I have to buy online. However: one of the shops here, Heffers, has a great bargain section, and I’ve managed to buy new books for £1 before, so that’s pretty cool.
As for physical books vs ebooks… I prefer physical books to own because obviously they look great. But I think I’m leaning towards ebooks for reading. They’re lighter (and my wrists are crap so holding big fat books is hard). You don’t have to hold them open, they’re just flat. You can highlight things and have them magically appear on Goodreads without having to type out the quote. Etc etc… Plus, I get a lot of free or cheap ebooks, so there’s that.
And as for thinking about books — yeah, I agree. Sometimes I think about them a lot. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes they’re for uni so I have to. Sometimes they’re for uni and I still don’t, lol.
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Okay but I’m SO relieved I’m not the only one who doesn’t adore bookstores. I mean, I would if I was rich I guess?!? But I’ve literally never bought a book full price in a store. I go second-hand or use my vouchers for an Australian indie story that I work for.😂But it’s terrifying to spend a ton on a book you might not like. I caaan’t understand people who don’t use libraries.😂
I’m currently reading Stalking Jack the Ripper and it’s hardcover AND large print and my wrists are dying.😂
I occasionally buy books full price if, as I said, they’re by an author I really really like. But I only have a few auto-buy authors, and if I’m not in Cambridge when the book comes out, I buy online. I have a book token at the moment but I don’t know what to buy with it! I wanted to get a physical copy of The Cruel Prince but I have to wait for it to come out in paperback because my Holly Black books are on a very short shelf and the hardback won’t fit 😂 And nothing else has leapt out at me in the shops so far. So I’m saving it for a rainy day.
GAHH I wear glasses and drink tea and only love hardcopies and want to be a writer and OMG am I a stereotype?!! I really enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies and just have no major interest in picking up the books quite yet – ALSO Game of Thrones. LOVE the TV show, haven’t gotten to the books. Does this count?! Say yes so I can feel like an individual and not just a stereo!
HOBBIES THOUGH! I have those! Too many for my own good really! Reading alllways comes first – But I also love running and hiking and doing awkward/sassy cross stitching patterns, and playing piano and volleyball and softballanddodgeballandeverysportever! phew. and napping. because sports and reading and also sitting make me le tired.
WE’RE BOTH STEREOTYPES NOW, RACHAEL. WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST ENJOY OUR CLICHENESS. 😂😂 (Also Game of Thrones books are SO good by the way…and really different to the show. But holy heck are they a commitment and a half.😂 Why are they so huge?!) And hey you’re breaking all the cliches with all the sporty hobbies! GO YOU.
OMG I AM A STEREOTYPE! The only one that’s completely false for me is the tea one. Tea is gross. (Except for blackberry sweet tea, which is basically just blackberry juice and sugar.) The rest of the list is all true or somewhat true for me.
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HELLO FELLOW STEREOTYPE. *hi fives in a cliche way* 😂 and tea is gross. Unless it’s chai and then I love it.😂
I’m apparently on a binge of your blog posts now. XD BUT. I HAD TO COMMENT ON THIS ONE!!!! BECAUSE I AM AN EXTROVERTED BOOKWORM AND BLESS YOU FOR RECOGNIZING MY EXTROVERTEDNESS!!!! But I’m also nearly halfway introverted, if I remember correctly, so humans are pretty nope. XD
Also, this post had me laughing out loud in so many places… The part about the potato fitting into our hearts. The part about scooping books out of the goblin’s gutter. (I had to scroll back up to find it, and I literally started laughing all over again.) This post was the absolute best. XD
ALSO!! I don’t wear glasses, either, which is slightly sad because glasses are adorable and COLORFUL, but no. My eyes are perfectly fine. How lame. And for number nine, I actually LOVE going into bookstores, but I totally agree with you. They are WAAAY too expensive. And I mean, I get that they have to make a profit and everything, so I love supporting them when I can, but…that is very rare. XD
(and OH MY WORD, I DON’T DRINK COFFEE OR TEA, EITHER!!!! I honestly just don’t like the taste of them all that much? And coffee makes me SUPER kooky. As for tea, had this cinnamon chai latte thing ONE TIME and it was DELICIOUS, but I only got like a sip of it, and I’ve never been able to have another ever since… :(( #lame )
I WON’T ARGUE.😂😂 Also thanks for commenting!! You’re so lovely!! Also you’re obviously a very rare species if you’re an extrovert. Like…hOW DO YOU EVEN EXIST, STRANGE EXTROVERTED ONE?? *sends wild cake to you*
I’m glad I’m still funny and not just gone to a whole new level of SERIOUSLY STRANGE.😂
Bookstores make me cryyy. I just want to own everything.😂 And yay that we’re both averse to coffee/tea! We are not alone! Although tbh right now I’m drinking chai which is pretty amazing but otherwise: tea = no go from me.😂
CAIT YOU DON’T DRINK TEA WE CAN NO LONGER BE FRIENDS.
OK no but really, I guess I’m a stereotypical bookworm except I’m am extrovert bwhahaha
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I DRINK CHAI AND I MAKE IT FROM SCRATCH WITH ACTUAL SPICES SO THAT CAN WIN ME A FEW FAVOURS YES??? I AM A CHAI SNOB AT LEAST.
I fall into half of the stereotypes which is that I am sometimes smart when I’m reading, that I hoard books, that I love going to bookstores, that I am sometimes introverted, and I sometimes think that the book is better than the movie. Also I’m laughing with the bookworms with glasses. That is so dated omg 🤣
I know rate?! The glasses stereotype is like a billion years old.😂Hey but at least we’re smart cliche bookworm nerds.😂 NO REGRETS.
I must say that I fit a lot in almost every stereotype?! I’m the walking sterotype 😂
The onyly thing in which I differ is the movie adptation, mostly because I’ve no time to watch the movie. Also I don’t enjoy much going to the bookstore because in Italy the English sections are really small or have a lot of paparbacks and still few choices. I prefer to buy online because I’ve basically unlimited choices. Probably, I would get excited if I’m going into an all English bookstore, mostly because I would have never seen so many buyable books around me.
Haha we are mostly walking stereotypes together then! *cliche hi five* 😂😂 And agh I hear you with online since I don’t have a good bookstore either. (Plus there are more sales online haha.)
I can’t even begin to emphasize on how many people think these things about bookworms. Almost everyone in my grade (who doesn’t know me) thinks all I ever do is read books. One of my least favourite stereotypes is that bookworms do nothing but read, all the time. I mean, how is that even possible?! Are we even human? I mean books are obviously awesome, bit everyone needs change once in a while…
Another one is that all bookworms are extremely intelligent. So many people come up to me, asking me their doubts in science and maths. Why? Because they see me with a book in my hand almost everyday. How does reading storybooks like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson make me proficient in science?!
On a lighter note, I do love hot chocolate (and any other form of chocolate) and I would prefer it to tea any day. And the books are always, always better than the movies 🙂
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I’m so glad you enjoyed the post! And YES some stereotypes work really well and others are just kind of annoying that people continually think them. Like I even get the “oh you must be so good at English!” and I’m not good at that either. 😂Stop putting pressure on bookworms! Some of us just merely enjoy stories ha.😂