I have a few problems.* Specifically BOOKWORM problems.
Trust me, the life of a bookworm is not all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. There are copious complications that can send us into a frizz at any given moment.
Thanks to the latest Top Ten Tuesday prompt…I’m about to explain ALL my bookworm problems.
* I reserve the right to ignore any comments my family may have on this statement. Shhh, peoples, shhh.
* You do get eel pie of you understood this reference!
This Week’s Prompt: Top Ten Book Related Problems I Have
1. When my OTP becomes a Ghost Ship.
Because…seriously?! Why do I always pick the ships where one half DIES. Depending on the book, this doesn’t always matter. (Hello, City of Bones, where everyone at least dies once or so. They come back. It’s okay.) The logical annoyance aside, it’s just furiously saddening when most of my ships are GHOSTS.
Authors? Stahp.
2. When nooooo one has read the book I’m flailing over.
IT IS NOT FUN TO FANGIRL ALONE. And yet I continually am shrieking alone. Who has read Disruption by Jessica Shirvington? Who is flailing over The Maze Runner? Can I hear an ajfkdlsad over Gone by Michael Grant, PLEASE?
3. That gargantuan TBR pile.
Help.
It grows all on it’s own. It definitely multiples while I’m sleeping.
4. When I get “good-book-stage-fright”.
You haven’t heard of this? LET ME EXPLAIN! (I am awesome at explaining things, shh, shh, don’t disagree.)
“Good-Book-Stage-Fright” is when you know a book will cripple your feels and punch you in the face and turn your world upside down with sheer BRILLIANCE…so you put off the book because you’re not sure you can handle the pain right now. You cannot go on! You cannot read! You just stare at the book and suffer.
This is me and A Court of Thorns and Roses. I can’t. I want to. But I can’t. I’m terrified. And you better believe this is going to get horribly worse when Throne of Glass 4 comes out.
R.I.P. to Cait.
5. When it rains SO MUCH I can’t take good photos for my instagram.
I won’t lie: I love Instagram. I adore that “bookstagram” is all about beautiful pictures of books. Can life get any better?! Someone give me a tissue, I think this Vulcan is shedding a tear in pure happiness.
So when it rains. For weeks on end. It is excruciatingly frustrating. Although it does make for beautiful mossy brick walls as backdrops.
6. When I wreck MY OWN book on accident.
When someone else ruins my book, there is a silver lining. I CAN BLAME THEM! But when I destroy my own gorgeously fabulous book of joy…there is nothing left but to quietly glare at myself.
I took my copy of Divergent camping…it had a nice warm and dry little nook, and yet…there is a GOUGING HOLE in the back. It’s ruined. It’s over. It’s not okay.
7. When someone informs me (to my face) just HOW MUCH they hate my favourite book.
It’s weird how often this happens. But I’ll blog about a book and odds are someone will give me a detailed comment about why they hated it. It happens on instagram, twitter, facebook…where ever. Don’t get me wrong: you don’t have to like what I like! But you also don’t have to dump icy water on my enthusiasm.*
Have you, by chance, seen a wet koala before? It’s kind of like me.
* And seriously, it’s okay to tell me you don’t like a book I’m flailing over. I love your opinions! I’m talking about detailed explanations that go on and on and on about why I AM WRONG. I am not wrong! I am never wrong! Having an opinion is not wrong!
8. When my favourite author doesn’t write enough.
This is the worst, the absolute worst. I know, I know, “one book a year” is completely logical and more than fair but…I really really could use some more books by my favourite authors.
Why doesn’t Veronica Roth write more? I’ve read all of Maggie Stiefvater’s books now. Hurry up with The Fever Code, please, James Dashner. Don’t make me beg…
9. When I lose my bookmark.
I’m perpetually out of bookmarks. I blame this on my puppy, as well, who loves to chew them. (He thinks it’s hilarious when he takes off with my bookmark and I have to chase him. Ha, ha. So so funny. HOW ABOUT NO.)
I constantly use an iPod for a bookmark. That’s normal, right? RIGHT?
10. When people tell me I cannot read all the books of ever.
Pfft. You are clearly deluded. OF COURSE I CAN. Sure there are like 900-books on my Goodreads to-read list, and I add at least 100 more each year. And I only read between 100-200 books a year. BUT THIS MEANS NOTHING, OKAY? I can and will read all the books. I might possibly pause briefly to find the Fountain of Youth.
If I read 100 books each year for the next 80 years (I’m assuming I’ll live to 99, okay?) then that’ll be 8,000 books.
I’m doing this. The haters will not stop me.
so, my baccivorous bookworms! what are your #bookwormproblems? do you relate to any of mine?! also (important question here) have you ever accidentally wrecked one of your books?! (are you okay?)
Cait would like to take a small moment to explain that baccivorous means you eat berries. There is no real reason to call you this except she likes alliteration. Hence she frequently calls you bioluminescent blogglings as well. All sorted? GOOD. Currently, Cait is reading Golden Son and not loving it as much as Red Rising.
OMG THIS WAS SO FUNNY XD
WELL. I AM PLEASED. XD
My TBR pile is also out of control 🙁 I am slowly working on it.
Most of my classics are wrecked because lugging them to school and back in a bag that weighs roughly the same as a ten tonne weight will do that to a book. Also, I leant my copy of The Gospel of Loki to someone once and it came back torn 🙁 Another time I leant The Lost Hero to my friend’s friend and she spilt hot chocolate on it. Instead of telling me and apologising, she bought me another copy. And this, like my original, was a hardback. That is less of a statement on my attitude towards books (a book that looks read is probably a good book) and more of a statement on the friend I leant it through. She is crazy about keeping her books in perfect condition.
What’s The Fever Code? Have you heard that The Raven King’s coming out in September (stupid question – of course you do)? I think you’re going to have another ghost ship on your hands 😉
Every time I feel like I'm working sufficiently well on my TBR, IT GROWS AGAIN DARN IT. *wails* Mind you I returned a few unread books to the library and stowed some books I'd won that I really don't want to read, so that helped. >.> (Is that cheating?! lol)omg, that's so sad it came back torn. :(( WORST. But still, that other friend is worth keeping, if she just bought a new one. ;-)(The Fever Code is another book by James Dashner. It's like what-happened-to-Thomas-before-the-Maze.)OH MY GOSH, YESSSSS I KNOW THE RAVEN KING COMES OUT IN SEPTEMBER. 'SCUSE ME. MERELY HYPERVENTILATING HERE. But no. No no no. How dare you. No ghosts ships. NO. I will have a happily-ever-after ship. SO THERE. #livesindenial
This was such a hilarious post. I totally agree with everything you said (although, digital person here, I never wreck a book! :D)
Also, I’m STILL FLAILING OVER MAZE RUNNER. You can come flail with me! Gah! I still don’t know how to process that. Maybe reading a whole trilogy in a week was a bad idea?
Anyway, great post, check out mine if you have the time! 😀
Ohh, that is a big bonus of being a digital reader, right?! NO RUINED BOOKS! Yaaaaaay A MAZARIAN!!! WE SHALL FLAIL UNTIL DAWN.
Great list,Cait!I agree with half of them:)
And yes,I’ve wrecked my own book once,and it’s horrible.I once took a book of mine to a bonfire,and left in on the log and went somewhere else.And the book has slipped from the log somehow and suddenly my friends were screaming and when I came back I saw that my book was burning!Thankfully my best guy friend-he’s a sweetheart-saved the book quickly and put out the fire,but still the back cover of the book is totally burnt,and four or five pages were destroyed.I still have that book as a relic of my stupidity:(
You’re out of bookmarks?Then maybe I should send you some.I hate bookmarks,and I have too many at home.
Omg, burning books. MISHMA. HOW COULD YOU. BOOK BURNING IS BAD. hehe. But at least your friend saved it. 😉
YES TO AUTHORS NOT WRITING ENOUGH. AHEM JOHN GREEN MORE THAN THREE YEARS AGHHH. I have indeed ruined books…water all over Eragon. The pages went nicely mottled and parchment-y. Oh, and my copy of Order of the Phoenix has some pages missing and the rest of it just comes out of the cover. The bonus is that I don’t have to bring the whole book everywhere – I can just slot out the section I’m reading at the time!
YES, COME ON NOW, JOHN GREEN. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH ALL THIS TIME? NOT HAVING A LIFE AND BEING TOO PRESSURED, OBVIOUSLY.I….I'm not sure how to react to reading part of a book like that. IT DOESNT' SEEM RIGHT.
YES, YES, YES TO ALL OF THESE. I am in the same boat with ACOTAR. On the one hand I wan to devour it. But I’m afraid that I’ll either a) Love it, and then have to wait A WHOLE YEAR for the next book or b) dislike it, and hate myself, because love the ToG books so much. But it’s sitting there, on my shelf, taunting me, begging to be read. xD
MORE THAN A YEAR. Since it comes out in May this year, so probably May next year. *wails* I did this with Red Rising…I read it like 14 months ago and now I really struggled to remember everything with Golden Son. Paaaaain.
HEY I LOVED THE MAZE RUNNER [and the film too!]
BUT CAIT.
CARRY ON WITH A COURT OF THORNES AND ROSES OMG
I NEED TO FLAIL WITH YOU
OH MY GOSH! YAY! I AM SO GLAD YOU LOVED THE MAZE RUNNER! I LITERALLY ONLY FIND HATERS, SO WE SHALL IT MAZE-SHAPED CAKE AND FLAIL TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY. HUZZZZZZZAH!!!
I love your list, it’s relatable and funny. I’ve been struggling to find a correct term to express my hesitation on finishing a brilliant book. Now I know! Thanks to you. lol
Oh yay! I'm glad you liked my term. 😉
Great post! Ah, those bookwork problems.
*quietly bioluminesces*
We have a lot of problems, we bookworms.
My tbr pile is *crushing* me. If I piled them all on top of each other I swear I could build a tower. OH MY GOD! I should build a CASTLE OUT OF BOOKS! WHAT?! gjhscgibjhv
Why have I not thought of this before?! And then I could live in it! GAH!!!!
Okay, now I can’t remember what i was going to say. I think it was along the lines of “yes, yes and YES!” ^_^
And instagram – oh the prettiness! 😀
We could probably build THE EIFFEL TOWER out of our TBRs sometimes. -_-
“That gargantuan TBR pile.” HA, the story of our lives! Poor bookworms. And omg, THAT GIF in #4!!! And the wet koala. Lol. Kidding aside though, IT IS NEVER WRONG TO HAVE AN OPINION. Having an opinion is way better than going with the flow. And there’s nothing more appalling than when someone invalidates your opinion in your own blog. Like, go away.
Hmm. I’ve never damaged my books, accidentally or otherwise. But I (somehow) tore a page from my best friend’s copy of Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares and IT WAS DEPRESSING. Luckily, we’re still best friends.
It is a very accurate feels gif, amirite?! 😉 And YES! I feel like people miss the fundamental idea of “opinion” sometimes. *growls* Disagreement is fine, but “you are so wrong” is just not. It's really awkward to reply to those comments. I've sometimes just said “Well, agree to disagree” and left it at that. I don't want to be rude. But AWKWARDNESS.
You posts always make me happy. I love how you explain this & that and your lists. Oh, and if you find the Fountain of Youth…would you consider sharing? (My TBR currently stands at around 1200 books. Scary stuff)
Yes, I shall auction the fountain of youth off to the highest bidding bookworm (unless I eat it all, who knows). 1200. WOW. I have 900 and, um, there's still many many years of marking books to read to go. xD
OMG I love your list! #4 is hilarious and so, so, SO freaking true. I’ve still not read the last Mara Dyer book or the last Mortal Instruments book because I’m pretty sure they’re both going to hand me all kinds of feels I’m not ready for. All the Bright Places? I’d love to read it, but I have to be in a mood to have my life ruined when I decide to dive in. Oh, the things YA lit do to me.
My TTT!
I've read All the Bright Places and it's like a 5-star read for me but still….IT WILL RUIN YOU. IT WILL. IT GAVE ME THE WORST BOOKHANGOVER OF MY LIFE AND I MAYBE CRIED FOR A FEW MONTHS. XD haha. I've definitely not encouraged you to read it, right?! XD
I like creative bookmarks, but yes, I do lose them. I agree, authors should write more (so should all the bloggers I love…but then maybe their quality would decrease?) And when the digital and school library doesn’t have books ….AAARGH I also don’t like it when my favorite author(s) writes a book I don’t like so much. LIke how could they do that too me.
Hahaha, related to this oone lots Cait 🙂
Hehe, yes. I think it would totally destroy authors if we were demanding books all the time. 😉 BUT I JUST LONG FOR MORE STIEFVATER, BASICALLY. And more Suzanne Collins come to think of it…
I have not. But my family are constantly ‘accidentally’ just making a tiny break/tear/bend/coughs up water and then gets blood nose on my books. ARRGGHHHH!!!!! But I don’t mind if a book has been read a lot of times if it has a cracked spine, because it shows it’s been loved, but it’s still hard to get to that acceptance point you feel me?
NUMBER 2!!! YES YES YES YES YES!!! THIS IS WHY I LOVE THE GOOD OL’ INTERNET!!!! THE RAVEN CYCLE!!!! ARGGHHH!!! NO ONE HAS READ IT AND IT DISTRESSES ME!!! (Well, I mean a few people, but no one I see a lot/ my close friends in real life!) I need a person who has read it to be making reference jokes/have feels attacks in class when the teacher makes an accidental reference. 😀 And also, I LOVE DISRUPTION!!!!!! KGJSLDKFJLSDLSDJF And uhhh The Maze Runner Series is a soon to be read probably this year read.
3. TBR pile + year 12+ last year of access to awesomely stocked and friendly librarians school library? KILL ME NOW!!! I WANT TO READ THEM ALL BUT I HAVE LITTLE TIME AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND I WANT BOOKS AND BOOKS AND BOOK LOVE AND BOOKNESS AND ALL THE BOOKS!!!! (can you tell I want the books?) *puppy dog eyes*
Also, I think Maggie Stiefvater needs to post her grocery lists on her instagram/twitter/tumblr/facebook so we can read them when we are in Maggie Stiefvater writing withdrawal mode. (Or read Cait’s The Dead Boy and the Paper Cut for Noah Baby withdrawals) <3
Ahem. I have had the same bookmark for the past 6 years. Once I thought I lost it, but then it was found, I was blind but now I see…ha ha! no. Anyway, it's been with me on many adventures, so I feel like I can't throw out my bookmark or ever get a new one, I don't care if the polish is wearing off, it's been through too much heartbreak, too many emotional journeys, been with me as I fell in love with ALL my book boyfriends!
Basically, I have an emotional attachment to an inanimate object, but hey! Books are also inanimate!
I basically relate to all your #bookwormproblems, except the instagram one because, well…have you seen my phone? XD
Lovely post! I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to comment when I'm this tired…. I will probably wonder at myself in the morning. xoxo
OMG, THAT IS VERY BAD OF YOUR FAMILY THOUGH. *glares at Renne's family* hehe. Just kidding. I shall not glare. XDI feel like noooo one was every reading Stiefvater until recently and now they are and just YAY. It fills my heart with glee to yell “GANSEY” and have the blogosphere (mostly) respond. :')The…the same bookmark for 6 years?! WHAT ARE YOUR BOOKMARK SECRETS? SERIOUSLY?! I barely have the same bookmark per book and we know how many books I read. -_- It's a calamity for sure.WHAT DO YOU MEAN?! YOUR COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS THE BEST.
I also get good-book-stage-fright but it’s more of the “what if I hate it when everyone else has given it five stars and I’m the only one who doesn’t like it and everyone hates me ohgod???????” I’m still in hiding over my rating for A Court of Thorns and Roses, to be honest…
My copy of The Woman In White is totally wrecked because I took it on an archaeology fieldtrip and I put it in a puddle when I was doing the dishes. A puddle, I should add, that it was too dark to see. Stupid camping… A couple of my other classics are also mangled because they were in my school bag with my music stand. Sigh.
Omg, doooon't tell me you didn't like ACOTAR. I will die. XD haha. I still feel dumb for being the only one of ever who hated I Was Here. I loathed that book. 0_0 and everyone else loves it and I feel bad. heh.
I LOVE this post!:D And all the GIFs are too perfect- i’m pretty sure I haven’t smiled this much in ages;) Aww I can imagine the pain of a ghost ship:( I hate when I know I’m shipping a doomed relationship but I will go down with this ship is my motto!
Gone by Michael Grant is amazing! The last book of the series killed me with all the emotions and just how right the ending felt:)
Haha! Your TBR pile is like a lovely and scary ever-growing entity but that’s a good thing in the end because that means dozens of amazing books await you;)
I totally get good-book-stage-fright- it happened to me with Fault in Our Stars but then I finally read it after ages of just staring at my copy and fearing the tears that I knew would endlessly fall from eyes because of my broken heart… (just me being very dramatic;)) And I’m doing it now with All The Light We Cannot See and Heir of Fire!- and I can see you loooove Sarah J Maas:)
I hate when someone insults a book or series that I adore and that means a lot to me:( Aww wet koala!
Don’t let the haters stop you:P Read all the books of ever!
Lovely post!
OMG YAY! THIS MAKES ME PLEASED. I basically blog to make people laugh. 😉 My tbr is absolutely terrifying me. 0_0 I'm literally NOT going to the library because it pains my soul to come home with no books. heh. I just want to read ALL THE STORIES! Oh oh I'm so glad you liked TFIOS! I can imagine the hype could easily have ruined it, right?! I read it before I was really into blogging so I didn't even really know it was famous. (I think Looking for Alaska was my first Green book. But TFIOS is my favourite.)
Love your post! Thank you.
Here’s my Top Ten!
Well, thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for the honest points Cait! I know what you mean about people telling you their opposing thoughts on a book that you loved, but yes sometimes it does hurt! Because of your enthusiasm for Gone, I’ll have to pick it up soon.
I'm pretty sure Gina and Kelly liked Gone too…although I'm quite sure if they liked the rest. lol I AM A WILD FAN. haha. XD I don't mind people disagreeing with me…but it's always odd when they go on a long long rant about how wrong I am (particularly if I don't even KNOW the commenter!)
My copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix isn’t just ruined. IT DOESN’T HAVE A COVER ANYMORE. I don’t know how, but I made it disappear. It was a frickin’h hardcover ffs. I guess it’s a nocover now. Oh, well.
I think my worst bookworm problems are still mismatching book editions (uk/us versions, paperback vs hardcover, different sizes, stupid movie editions,…) in a series. I’M LOOKING AT THEM ON MY SHELVES RIGHT NOW AND I’M NOT OKAY WITH THIS. Oh, also: when I read a great review that makes me want to buy the book and then I head over to amazon and find out it’s not out yet. Much pouting ensues.
OKAY. THAT IS A VERY WELL LOVED BOOK.I hate mismatching book editions, but I'm poor and I'm probably never going to be able to fix it. *sniffles* I have 3 books by Veronica Roth and THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT EDITIONS. I figure I should get the 4th in hardback or something so it's a completely mismatching set. -_- #ocdbreakdown
The avoiding one! I do this all the time, I think books are perfect for specific time periods, like Summer or Winter, so I avoid, or I get so happy about them I avoid them, or I think ‘oh, I’ll get there eventually’ and bam, never read, such a bad bad habit. I’m promising to spend a little more time next month on books I want to read, regardless of anything, I need to read them, I am excited, gimme! I wrecked a book once.. I when I was like.. 5, so that doesn’t count, because I didn’t understand, whoop! 🙂
IT TOTALLY COUNTS, YOU LITTLE BOOK DESTOYER. XD ha. Okay if you only wrecked a book when you were little, you get ALL THE POINTS. I accidentally broke the spine of the last book I was reading and now I'm really annoyed. -_- I mean spines are sort of meant to be creased, buuuuut THEY LOOK BETTER UNCREASED. Okay, yes I have problems. XD
THIS IS ME. THIS IS MY LIFE. ALL THE THINGS ARE CORRECT. Especially 3 and 4, right now…I have 22 books stacked up by my bed, and it hurtsssss, precioussssss. AND I AM SO SCARED OF BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE BECAUSE DREAM THIEVES HURT ME AND I CANNOT *wails senselessly*
Some of my biggest struggles…getting one or part of a series, and not having enough money to get the others, because then the poor book just sits there looking lonely on my shelf and that saddens me. Or when the books are uneven heights. *growls at Red Rising*
BUT YOU’RE READING GOLDEN SON I AM SO HAPPY.
And yes, a few months ago our dog got to my pretty hardcover copy of The Hunger Games and CHEWED IT UP I AM STILL TRAUMATIZED
OH BE SCARED OF BLUE LILY, BUT NOT TOO SCARED. I actually liked it more than TDT. In order of loving it's: TRB, BLLB and then TDT. Although I want to reread them because REASONS. *Ahem*Oh oh I understand only owning part of a series. *gulps* I usually borrow the first book to see if I like it, and then I buy/request the rest…so I literally have a bunch of series with all the book 1s missing. At least it stops me lending them, I guess???I FINISHED GOLDEN SON. PRETTY DARN TRAUMATISED, OKAY?! HAPPY NOW?? *sulks and whimpers*
Ha, great list (and I feel like that wet koala sometimes too!) I hate when people tell me they hate a book I love — or just kind of give me side-eye, as if they won’t bother telling me how lame they think it is. But yeah, no one having read I book I love is a big problem. I can’t keep all that book love all to myself!
Erggh, it's so NOT NICE. We shouldn't be judged/hated upon for our bookish loves!
YES to so many of these! #1 completely destroys me when it happens *sobs.* You’re reminding me I need to continue on with the Mortal Instruments series – I have City of Ashes on my shelves for at least a year, and I haven’t read it yet. And yep, I clearly suffer severely from #3, too! I have SO MANY BOOKS, and not enough time to get through them all.
Ooh with #9… I had the same problem with my dog when she was a puppy. Only she liked to chew on my books, not the bookmarks… THANK GOODNESS she grew out of it, and she got the message – DON’T TOUCH THE BOOKS! LOL!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS. I have so many ships I literally cannot even with that series. I'm so sad it's ended, and so happy Cassandra Clare is writing like 295285 more books in that world. hehe. WE NEED MORE TIME TO READ ALL THE BOOKS. THAT IS ALL. Or else authors need to stop writing such gorgeous things so we can catch up. xDNO NOT THE BOOOKS!!! My puppy has bitten two of my books so they have slight teethmarks, but I was in quite a rage. So I think he was sufficiently terrified. My evil side comes out when someone tampers with my books. 😉
Oh Gosh I have feels for you when it comes to ruining a book. Last week I managed to completely tore the cover off the book I was reading while at Uni and I had to wait until I got home to sellotape it back together but I still can’t look at it without thinking “I RUINED YOU!” It was such a sad moment and I can’t blame anyone 🙁
EXACTLY!! I FEEL THE SAME WAY COMPLETELY. *cries and dies*
I have that problem where I can’t fangirl with other people about the books I love because my friends who love to read don’t love to read the books I Iove to read unless it’s The Lunar Chronicles. This is why I turn to Goodreads and blogging.
And my TBR pile is the most horrendous thing I’ve ever seen. For every book I finish I end up adding like five new books to my TBR. My addiction to finding new books is spiraling out of control. Please send help. And that gif. YES. That lady is from the Epic Reads Youtube Channel right?!? BEST CHANNEL EVER. Just sayin’.
I love looking at pictures of books, but I disagree that life can’t get any better. It CAN get better with pictures of FOOD. Food and books is the perfect combination.
I also hate it when my favorite author doesn’t write enough books for me to read. I thought that I would have to succumb to this fate forever with Harper Lee, but now that there’s a new book coming out, I am very happy, and I won’t let anyone’s negative opinions ruin it for me. I am scared by wet koalas, Cait. Thank you for scarring me for life.
Ohoooh yes! Goodreads and blogging totally does fill a massive void. My sister reads probably 20 books a year, which is okay compared to average, I think?! But we NEVER read a series at the same time. I finally got her to read City of Bones and she liked it, but she probably won't finish forever and I have SO MANY SPOILERS to speak of. *zips lips* It's tough being a bookworm. ;-)YES THAT GIF IS FROM EPIC READS. I LURVE THEM.Oh, oh be scared by wet koalas. They are scary things.
Ha I can totally relate to a lot of these but when it comes to bookmarks I just, y’know, bend the spine back and put the book face down. Oops.
My biggest problems are: I want to read ALL OF THE BOOKS and there are so many books to choose from that sometimes I don’t read anything at all because I am overwhelmed. Stupid.
YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT. *blocks ears* lalalala WE DO NOT BREAK SPINES. *calms self*Okay, okay I just broke a book spine today, so I think I'm just feeling unusually traumatised. x) I want to read ALL OF THE BOOKS quite badly. Really really quite badly. The struggle is real.
I’m lovin’ your maths there Cait. I too am going to live forever. But not because of the fountain of youth… more because my destiny is to be a Disney princess/the chosen one/possibly even a dragon. So reading all the books just isn’t a bookworm problem for me!
Having said that, I agree with almost all of these… except number 2. I LIKE reading books that no one knows about. It means the likelihood of the characters coming alive and falling in love with me is greatly increased (specifically the falling in love part… for now I have no power over characters coming alive. Unfortunately). When other people read my books, (not ones I’ve written or own, but MY books. The ones I discovered first) it makes me sad. I’m wickedly territorial apparently. Or an insane hipster. Or maybe both…
Beth x
My maths is awesome. We will not talk about how I failed maths in highschool. *shakes head emphatically* But I made up for it in English. OH. Your plan of living forever is quite good too. *nods* But I shall drink the fountain of youth and read books forever and ever and ever. huzzah. It's a very fullproof plan.I really really like to flail about books with other people though. 🙁 SO WHEN I'M ALONE I JUST…CRY AND BE LONESOME. I swear I'm an introvert for everything but reading. xD (But *whispers* I actually totally understand that territorial feeling. I feel that way about some of the TV shows I watch. I just feel like they're /mine/. bad, bad, I know.)
I refuse to accept when my ship becomes a ghost. I go into heavy denial. I get so depressed when I love a book and I can’t squeal with anyone!! Come on people, get on your game. The TBR pile gets so overwhelming sometimes. I HATE when people tell me personally that they hate my favorite books and they keep going on and on and on. Please stop, I can’t take it!! Haha awesome post, Cait <33 Oh and ACOTAR is totally going to destroy your feels with its brilliance. Just a heads up 😉
Yes yes, let's just deny ghost ships exist. THAT WILL FIX IT! Ahhh, that endless TBR. Mine is a bit catastrophic at the moment. So I'm ignoring it in case it fixes itself. 😉
YES, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES TO ALL OF THESE!
I’m sure my TBR multiplies like bacteria when I’m sleeping. I mean I’m not complaining, free books right? But gah, when will I ever reach the end?
I think my biggest bookworm issues are;
– People borrowing my books and not giving them back – my best friend has had TFIOS since last May. I’m considering her status as best friend.
– People borrowing books and bending the spines – my mother has bent my copy of Paper Towns. I’m thinking of disowning her.
– I TOTALLY GET GOOD-BOOK-STAGE-FRIGHT!
– Not being able to flail over a book and scouring Twitter for people who’ve read it who you can flail with and will partake in flailing with a complete stranger without thinking it’s seriously weird. It’s not weird.
I totally understand! I'm not complaining either except…I kind of am. xD I WANT THE BOOKS AND I LOVE THE BOOKS. I just need 84920579 more hours in my day so I can read them all. Omg, I do not lend books for that exact reason. I barely even lend them to my sister and she lives just across the hall. She's had The Death Cure for like 3 weeks now and I'm getting panicky. Better than Paper Towns which she had for like SIX MONTHS. *glares*
Awesome list! I have a massive TBR pile so I definitely feel your pain. I have a problem of going to the store and the library and coming home with even more books even though it’s already massive… I really need to work on that! I also don’t like it when I love a book that nobody has heard of. It’s annoying because then I have to fangirl all alone! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL. I literally cannot go to the library at the moment because I can't help but bring home more books. It's too overwhelming right now! XD
AFJKDLSAD OVER GONE BY MICHAEL GRANT RIGHT HERE! Like seriously. The writing. The characters. The crazy paranormal stuff. Sam/Astrid. Edilio. Everything. However I have nOT ACTUALLY FINISHED THE SERIES, which leads me to my 2-part #bookwormproblem: a) when the library doesn’t get sequels fast enough/at all (ie they haven’t got Light) and b) by the time you track down a copy you’ve forgotten a lot of the previous plot! However I have a glorious plan which is to get all the books secondhand and then BINGE-READ them all. I’m legitimately so excited to do this.
Your gifs are perfect (as usual). I am especially enjoying the barrel of feels and Emily Blunt (my fave). Also that wet koala. Wow. I’d never seen one before. Have you ever seen a swimming pigeon?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=swimming+pigeon…
^My gift from me to you.
IS THAT PIGEON DEAD? IT LOOKS MILDLY UNHAPPY. AND OKAY WE NEED AJFDKLSAFD OVER GONE TOGETHER. EXCEPT YOU HAVEN'T READ THEM ALL AND I HAVE THE MOST FEELINGS OF EVER FOR LIGHT BECUASE CAAAAAINE MY BABY CAAAAAINE. Sam and Astrid and Edilio of course too and ermagerd I love Dekka to bits. :') It's such a tragic story though. The ending hurts. I only own like 3 and I really really want to buy the rest eventually and REREAD THEM. #extremefangirling
I totally get all of thisXD Although, my dogs don’t get my bookmarksXD But I constantly use my phone as a bookmark so I don’t have to get up and walk all the way to my room, while holding my place in my book, to get a bookmark.
*hi fives for electronic bookmark usage* It's handy, right?! I admire the people who memorise page-numbers. Gawsh. I could NEVER do that. XD
I LOVE every book that you love, Cait *backs away from evil Koala bear*
The struggle is real with the TBR pile, mine is out of control. But yet, I can’t stop myself from acquiring books. I CAN’T. I NEED THEM. ALL OF THEM. GET ALL THE BOOKS. It’s an addiction. *hangs head in shame* Hello, my name is Christy, and I have a problem.
Good, good you learn so fast. *slowly turns from wet koala into normal koala* AND KOALAS ARE NOT BEARS. SEE LOOK? YOU ANGER THIS WET KOALA AAAAGAIN. CHRISTY! HOW COULD YOU!*ahem* ;-)Tbrs are ridiculous. They totally grow all by themselves. -_- I'm on library ban for like the millionth time this year ALREADY and I've only been borrowing one or two books at a time I don't uuuuunderstand how I have so many books to read right now. *gulps*
Definitely feel your pain on some of these. Fangirling alone is definitely not fun. The TBR pile, good book stage fright–or end of a series stage fright. And definitely people disagreeing about a book I loved is so so hard. 🙂 Great list!
TTT
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Blogging is perfect for finding people to fangirl with, right?!
I can so relate to #2. (Okay… that didn’t sound right. *insert poop joke here*) But, in all seriousness, I know what it’s like to love a book that most people haven’t even heard of. I mean, some of my all-time favourites would have many people going, “Huh? What? Never heard of it.” Like Tiger Moon by Antonia Michaelis or A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb…
And I get #8, too. Laura Whitcomb… come on! Give us another book already! One book every four years is not enough! (Maybe that’s why her books are so amazing; she spends lots of time on each one so they’re super good.) Which reminds me… I need to read Under the Light. But I’m afraid to because… #4.
It's true…I have not heard of your favourite books. *hangs head in shame* Although when I started blogging like NO ONE had read Maggie Stiefvater and now I've (forced?) gotten all m friends to read her and they are now in love so YAY!
Let the record show, I WANT to read Disruption, it just does not exist! I mean, it does, but not anywhere that I could reasonably purchase it. Not even Book Depository. It’s like that elusive THG Luxury Edition- only in Australia. And that makes me sad. (Maybe that should have been one of my book problems…)
Also, um, it has been snowing here for about…. 20 months. It’s probably the next ice age, I don’t know. Fine, maybe it’s only been 4 months, but it FEELS like 20, and my books want pictures too! They see your books, all free in the wild, and they are pissed at me. I didn’t even discover the bookstagram situation until the end of summer, and now… well, I guess I just have to keep waiting.
Good question about the authors! I bet Veronica Roth is a little worried about writing more third books in trilogies. Also, she’s probably rolling in money and would like to take a break while she can. At least, that’s what I would do. Show up on red carpets in fancy dresses, drink a lot of wine, and sleep until 4pm. I hope that is what Veronica is doing. If not… well, I am here to help!
A few of my Baby-Sitter’s Club books were ruined in a flood in my parents’ basement. It is really sad, because I had EVERY. SINGLE. BOOK. And now I am missing a bunch, and they don’t publish them anymore, and NO, I am not okay.
Whatwhatwhat. Disruption is that elusive for you guys?!! BUT IT'S EVEN SET IN AMERICA DANGIT. Like the Author is Australian but the book is literally in America. -_- I kind of was frustrated at that. Have you tried wordery.com?Aw, your books are jealous of my books freedom. :') Well tell your books they're getting their revenge. IT'S APPARENTLY GOING TO RAIN FOR THE NEXT NINE YEARS HERE. *cries forever* I totally understand if Veronica Roth never writes again, but it'll suck. She's so talented. And seriously, though, if Veronica Roth isn't spending her millions on tall bookshelves with spinning ladders then she's doing it wrong. Someone needs to make me famous so I can have spinny ladders.
Cait. You can’t complain about ghost ships. YOU WRITE GHOST SHIPS. (By the way, I WILL read the next chapter of Dead Boys. I promise. Just haven’t gotten round to it yet. Oh, and is there a pet name for this ms? DBaPC?)
Also, I love the Maze Runner. (Not so much its sequels, but that’s another thing entirely.) The entire concept of the maze was amazing, okay? And I feel you SO MUCH on the TBR thing. AND on the losing bookmark thing. When I was small and innocent, I would fold the corners of the page I’m reader. NEVER AGAIN. I now subsist on Book Depository gift bookmarks.
P.S.: That Anakin Skywalker gif. ON POINT. However, I do think Obi-Wan’s “Only the Sith deal in absolutes” would be a more fitting real-life response.
OKAY. YOU HAVE A POINT. But see I'm getting back at all the mean authors who turn my OTPs into ghost ships. At least with my book it's very obvious it's doomed from the start. (Unless I murder Moxie, mwhahahaha.) I used to call it Paper Cut for short, and my sister thought I was talking about my blog. Pffft. Like CUT and FURY sound anything alike. So now I call it TDBaTPC which is not at all difficult to remember. -_-YAY I'M GLAD YOU LOVE THE MAZE RUNNER. I'm in love with all the books and I loved the third even though the ending was just so so open it made me shriek because I really don't know what happened. Book Depository saves lives with their bookmarks.
The fact you fangirled over Gone with ajfkdl”sad” makes me think your keyboard smash was laughing at your pain. Carry on, flailing person. You are funny.
HELLO. WHO IS THIS? I DO NOT KNOW WHO YOU ARE STRANGER, ON MY BLOG.
This is pure awesomeness and freakishly accurate. I understand Good-Book-Stage-Fright, and I use my iPod as a bookmark. WE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS.
Ummm….how did that hole in Divergent happen?!? HOW?
ALSO THE MAZE RUNNER IS AWESOME. *FLAILS*
We are look problem-bookish-twins, to be honest. I don't know. I want to cry…I think Divergent got smushed against a pole or something? I really ought to take a picture and instagram it, right?!
Well, in Skulduggery Pleasant there’s a zombie pairing, so they’re BOTH dead… er, undead… whatever…
I WILL DO THE THING. I WILL TAKE THE RING TO MORDOR, THOUGH I DO NOT KNOW THE WAY… um, I meant “I will fangirl with you about The Maze Runner because no one else will.”
OMG THAT KOALA PICTURE THO 😀
Mostly dead? IT'S A PRINCESS BRIDE THING!! THEY'RE AAAAALL ONLY MOSTLY DEAD! *cackles and then cries*aafjfslkdfad you are the best friend of the world. HUZZAH FOR THE MAZE RUNNER EVEN THOUGH IT HURTS MY FEELINGS WITH IT'S MALICIOUS KILLING OF MY FAVOURITE CHARACTERS.
you ruined your own book?!!? THE HORRIBLE OF WHAT YOU HAVE DONE SHOCKS ME TO MY CORE.
….. I use my phone as a bookmark more often than not.
I will say you take really good book pictures for you insta lol. They’re PRETTY even though the rain makes you a grouch.
FIGHT THE FAIRIES
I KNOW. YOU CAN STOP TALKING TO ME IF YOU WANT. I SHALL UNDERSTAND. I DISGUST EVEN MYSELF. *sobs in the corner*YAY! I like taking pictures. I luuuurve instagram. The weather forecast says it'll rain for the next nine years, so if you need me, I'll be adding to the floods by crying.
When he was still growing out of his puppyhood, my beloved boxer dog ripped up (gasp!) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone! I’m pretty attached to my HP books (I actually have the receipts from the purchase of each one from #4 to #7 tucked away in the books) so I was pretty bummed.
I’m also bummed to hear that you aren’t liking Golden Son as much as Red Rising! I just read Red Rising a couple weeks ago and loooooved it… I’m planning to read Golden Son on the looooong plane trip to Hawaii next week because I’m hoping it’ll be engrossing enough to distract me from the misery of flying! Fingers crossed that it gets better for you!
OMG. WHAT IS IT WITH DOGS AND EATING BOOKS AND PAPER?! My puppy has bitten one of my books before but not badly because he'd lost a lot of teeth at that time. Now he knows better. (I'm scary when I'm angry, lol.)Red Rising is LIFE. I totally devoured that thing and it was my BEST read of the year. *flails forever and always* I found Golden Son a lot more political and less…eh, I don't know. Less Darrowish? Although Darrow has some really vulnerable moments that made me sob. :') OH! Have fun in Hawaii!!
Haha this is so relatable! Oh my goodness! 😛
I feel you on #2. Most of the books I read are ones that aren’t as well known at all. (Thats why I freak out about them on my blog in hopes you will read it) but yeah, I definitely feel you on that one. It’s just so sad when no one knows about a book you just read that utterly crushed you and you have no one to share in the pain 🙁
As for #7 I feel your pain. At that point when someone says that I hope I have a friend nearby to hold me back or things will get ugly…
XD I seriously loved this post, Cait! 😀
I usually end up reading really well known books for the exact reason I NEED someone to flail with me. XD hehe. But there are some terrific gems of obscure books, though, right?!
CAIT. OMG.
Losing bookmarkers is definitely not one of my problems… 😛 I treat my bookmarkers like I treat my books.. meaning if someone looses or bends one by accident, I will unleash the rage monster.
I feel you about what you said when people tell you how much they hate a book you love to your face. I don’t think there is anything wrong with someone hating a book I love and I am totally fine with them telling me that something didn’t work but when people start telling me why exactly my favorite book is the worst piece of literature ever written and they cannot understand how I could possibly enjoy it, that’s where I have a problem. And people do that! I just don’t understand. There are also people who do the same thing if you hate a book! Like why cannot I have my opinions??? Blagh
Wonderful post, Cait!!! 😀
OHHH DON'T HURT ME THEN. Because I am literally the bookmark abuser of the world. xD Although I treat my books really really nicely! (Although I did get dirt on one the other day due to a rainy photoshoot but shhh we will not talk of tha.t)I so don't understand why people hate on our favourites (TO OUR FACES) either…it doesn't really make a lot of sense. I feel like they're insulting my, like, firstborn child or something. *gasps and slaps them with brooms*
My old friends kinda stopped reading…so I’m all alone when I flail about a new book. Blogging used to be so much fun when my friends were still addicted to it now I have no one that can relate to me. 🙁
I FEEL YOUR PAIN. My sister used to co-blog with me and she as a HUGE reader…and now she's not. It's sadness. I have no one in real life to flail with. :'(
I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love and appreciate this post! :’) Literally every single thing you mentioned, I can fully relate to. “Can I hear an ajfkdlsad over Gone by Michael Grant, PLEASE?” AJSFKB;SASDALNF YASSS!!! That is one of my all-time favorite series, and it pains me too how few people have read it, let alone heard of it! The feels. 🙁 And YES. I completely understand the feeling, when after posting a glowing, completely praising review of a book, a comment just bashes it. Right in front of your face. Have a little respected people? No? ANYWAYS so sorry for spazzing haha, but this post is just too good not to. :’) I’m a new reader of your blog, which is SUPER gorgeous and I love your banner so hard! Wonderful post, thanks for sharing. 🙂 And nice meeting you! xx – Riya
YAAAAY A GONE LOVER!!! WE SHALL FLAIL AND EAT CAKE AND CRY TOGETHER UNTIL DAWN. Did you get up to Light?! CAAAAAAINE MY BABY, CAAAAAINE. I have a severe love over the villains. Except for Gaia. Burn that with fire. *glares*AWWW. Welcome to my blog! SO glad you like it.
I AM I AM FLAILING OVER THE MAZE RUNNER I HAVE BEEN FLAILING OVER THE MAZE RUNNER FOR YEARS HELLO HERE I AM NOTICE ME.
Also seriously, why don’t your updates end up on my Bloglovin’ feed >.> FIX IT.
The gifs for #3 and #8! Perfection! 😀
I can definitely relate to #1. But #2? This happens so often! Nobody seems to read the books I’ve read. But then I don’t’ seem to have read the books that other people are talking about. Then when I do read the “popular” books, everyone’s like, “That’s old news, Ashley. We’re done discussing that. Read this instead.”
Also # 3, I’m always drowning in books. I usually have to take some back to the library unread. It makes me sad. Textbooks are the bane of my life right now. 😛
I have ALL THESE PROBLEMS. Especially the bookmark one. My puppy does the same! And then she thinks I’m playing tug of war with her or something. GAH. I accidentally bent the spine on my Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire book… and I still can’t live with myself. *sigh*
Haha, I have all these bookworm problems too! You’re not alone. My owned TBR is embarrassing. It’s like two whole bookcases now, not just a pile. I laugh at people who are like ‘My TBR is so huge’ and it contains about 5 books. I lose bookmarks constantly…. Which is probably why I bought 14 in one go the last time I purchased any.
Ahh, I would be able to make a dent in my TBR if not for the fact that I add ten more to the list for every one that I read. Argh!!
No. 2 – yeesssh!!
There’s this one book I keep telling everyone to read(“Room” by Emma Donoghue”), and seriously, NO ONE I know has read it. IT’s soooo good!
Problem eight and accompanying GIF are PERFECTION. Blue Balliet’s Chasing Vermeer series has only three books. Margaret Peterson Haddix cannot add to her series fast enough. And the rest of my favorite authors happen to be deceased. Hard luck.
Hm, of those books nobody seems to know I only know “The Maze Runner” and actually I didn’t found it so great. Reading about characters with no memory and so no past is… well, I don’t get along with it. I mean, how can they even have an opinion, if they have almost no experiences?
I know the problem with Ghost Ships, but on the other hand I usually understand the deaths, even if it’s my most favorite character… I don’t hate the author for doing that. It’s better than finding a shitty happy end for the story, that doesn’t seem authentic, or worse, let the character awake from the dead. Just my thought
*10: Are you going in the same direction as world ruler as Anakin? I was wondering…
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Haha, I can so relate to the good-book-stage-fright! It’s why I put off reading Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness – and The Book Thief. Yikes.
You and your pretty Instagram book photos. It’s disgusting. By which I mean they are awesome and my straight book shots are boring in comparison.
I feel like the #1 reason to become a vampire or immortal creature is all the reading time you’d gain! I’m sure that’s the main reason. It’s my #1 reason anyway.
OMG. This list is me lol. I haven’t had a ship turn into a ghost ship yet but how horrible!! I would just deny it all together and act like it never happened. Number two!! Half the time I’m fangirling with my friend who doesn’t read the kind of books I do. So I guess it’s more me fangirling and her listening heheh but it’s such a nice way to unleash the feels. My heart breaks a little (no a lot) inside when a friend didn’t enjoy a book I absolutely loved. I find it both humorous and sad that your puppy chews your bookmarks!!! Number 10…YOU CAN DO IT. We all will one day. Time just needs to stop for a good 5 years. Great list, Cait. Thanks for stopping by my blog last week <3
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