Avid Readers discussion

These aren't nessessarily problems but there fun to post! Basically this is where we all just comment "book nerd problems" that you find online or come up with yourself.

I came up with this one myself.

When you are clearly reading but people continue to talk to you anyways.

Haha I saw that quote, too.

That moment when you are 5 pages from the end of book. . .and someone calls you away because you have other stuff to do

OMG that happened when I was reading Beautiful Creatures one night! I was literally ON THE LAST PAGE of the book and my friend came to pick me up. NOOOOOOOO!!!!! The print was too small to finish quickly. I had to wait until I came back to finish the book!

When you say you want a book to be a movie, you actually mean you want a 17 hour spectacle with every single detail from the book and for it to be perfectly casted.

IKR? When you need the next book in a series, but the library doesn't have it and isn't getting it

Trying to decide which fictional character to name your kids after.

You refer to characters by there first names in conversations like your actually friends.

idk if this is a Book Nerd Problem, but I always come up with Names for my Characters in the Stories I read and sometimes I Name another Character the same thing sometimes and don't realize it until later in the Story.

A 'nerdgirl problem' is when you laugh out loud at a part in your book, and the sudden horror of when you look up and see everyone stairing at you strangely on the bus/train. As if i am weird?!

H99 wrote: "When people think that you're reading a book as a conversation starter."

Ugh! I know what that one is like!! I sometimes forgo a book because I know no one will let me actually read it. They will just want to talk about what I am reading. I don't mind talking about the book I am reading or just read, but not while I am actually trying to read it.

Dreaming of unusual libraries and unique shelving!

When you spend all your time trying to finish a certain book because it is so good, and then it either ends on a cliff hanger, or does not answer your questions. :/

When you are called away to do other things while reading.

When you are basically a zombie during the day because you stayed up during the night before reading.

Daydreaming at work when you just finished a really awesome book.

When you hate English class because you could be reading instead

Owllover wrote: "Trying to decide which fictional character to name your kids after."

And did you or will you do so?
Has anyone else?

(We didn't, perhaps in part because there is not a lot of overlap in what my husband and I read.)

Cecily wrote: "Owllover wrote: "Trying to decide which fictional character to name your kids after."

And did you or will you do so?
Has anyone else?

(We didn't, perhaps in part because there is not a lot of ove..."

Still trying to decide :D

Even being named after a more ordinary book character than Bilbo can be problematic. My mother was named Valerie Anne, after a book character her mother read about while pregnant. By the time my mother was old enough to know and ask, her mother couldn't remember the book, and to this day, my mother is mildly annoyed at the fact she hasn't been able to work out this little mystery.

Calling my bungalow 'The Shire' i think is a BookNerd thing?!

(...a bungalow is basically a house without an upper floor. So it could be concidered the closest thing to a Hobbit-Hole, without the cicular shapes inc. windows and doors and the fact that it isn't built into the Earth).

No. Never!

Or you could just look up the name on the internet...

I just researched "Valerie Anne". It says she's a musician. Not a book character. ????

H99 wrote: "Wow... I'd be demanding that my mother reread every book she read, or at least make a list so that I could read them."

My mother did ask, but my grandmother is long dead, so we'll never know. I presume the character had a surname, but she doesn't even know that. The chances are, it was an interwar book of light fiction that long ago went out of print and out of fashion, so the chances of successfully Googling the name of a character in it are slim.

Never mind, though. My mother is long over it, and it never really bothered me.

I just hope that "shreads" was a deliberate pun on "reading". ;)

H99 wrote: "Cecily wrote: "I just hope that "shreads" was a deliberate pun on "reading". ;)"

Let's hope that it was... How would you pronounce that, "reads" but with "sh" at the beginning?"

That would pronounced like "Shreds". If you look it up, it won't come up as Shreads. Don't know if that helps, but here's hoping it does.

HaHa!! They are all so true!! I especially love the new bookshelf one and the fact that i have too many books to choose from, i don't know what to read next :) *grins

Problem ~ You're so immersed in a fantasy world that people in reality start to question your sanity

Has anyone had the problem where you finish a book, and physically can't wait for the sequel, and the fact you don't have it yet years at your soul?

Or when you REALLY want a book your friend is reading first?

Now, to find the Book that you know you just glanced at yesterday. This might take a while. TOTAL BOOK NERD MOMENT!

Thanks H99!

I get you, H99.

Has anyone ever gotten too deep into a story, you don't realize your obsessing until you are always talking about it and referencing the book and characters in every conversation?

It takes me a year to read a book. By the time I finish it, I have forgotten what it was about..
Old Coot

Robert, really? Even if it has like 360 pages.

Well, maybe I am not that slow~~