You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:18:28 -0700

I found this thread last year and it was really popular so I thought I'd start it again. You know you're a literary nerd when... ... you feel insulted when someone isults a book you like. ... the books you're going to return doesn't fit in the returning box at the library. ... you read classics and truly enjoy them. ... you have a "to read"-list that's over 200 books long. fill out with your own!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

uncreativecarly — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:19:50 -0700

....you can safely say that you really enjoy Renaissance sonnets by Edmund Spenser

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lady_Indis_Dress — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:01:46 -0700

...you think your local library needs more books, especially classics.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

The Peahen — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:05:20 -0700

...you've ditched school to read.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SpiritofClyde — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:11:17 -0700

...You can read Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Shakespeare without having to resort to modern translations ...You find it horrifying when classics are abridged - if you're going to read a classic, at least read it properly!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MoonPuppy1316 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:12:33 -0700

... you walk into the grocery store and the idea of buying pens and notebooks is more appealing than buying dinner. No joke, this happened a little while ago XD

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

The_Disposable_Sophronia — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:30 -0700

^^ That last one happens to me all the time! ...you draw mental comparisons between the events in your everyday life and the events in various classic novels all the time

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Circe Marda — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:43:58 -0700

... the 100 book limit on your library card isn't enough ... you go to the library/book store to calm yourself ... when you're studying and you need a break, you read a book

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Arya Svit-Kona — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:14:31 -0700

.....when you swear you go into a bookstore, walk up and down the shelves and say, "Read that one, read that one, read that one, hated that one, read that one...." I did that the other day in Barnes and Noble.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SunnyDenise — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:23:25 -0700

... you not only read the classics as they were written, but can understand them.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Kate_A — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:00:33 -0700

Haha, same, I collect notebooks, pens, binders, and peachy folders. XD

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Kate_A — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:01:48 -0700

...you buy college textbooks just to read because you're interested in the topic, even though you're not in college yet.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

skatepixie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:58:19 -0700

-- you'd rather have a signed book than something signed by a movie star

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Aiyandra — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:58:11 -0700

... your parents constantly try to encourage you to go shopping for clothes. You rather want to buy books. ... you study French because you want to read Les Miserables in the original version. ... you want to read the classics in English even though it's not your mother tongue. ... you don't visit the library anymore because there aren't any interesting books you haven't read yet. (I am not kidding you. From the age of six, I have visited that library. There is no children's literature, YA, Fantasy or genetics book I haven't read.) ... your friend visits you and the first thing she says when walking into your room is "I feel like I'm in a library." ... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Behind Imagination — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:22:27 -0700

.. When you for years have heard family members joke about you have the library in the town .. When your selection of fantasy books probably is larger than the library's. .. When you always need room for more books. And when you finally get it, you fill it up already and need more room again! .. When your parents have joked about you wanting to read Shakespear in the originally form even though it is not your mother-though. But the joke fell to the ground, because it was so true. .. When you have stayed up all night just for reading. First realising it 5 o'clock. .. When you hide in the school minimal library when you doesn't feel well/everything is too much .. When you really love going to libraries. And bookstores. And second-hand book shops. <3 And could easily be in there for days. .. When you die a little inside everytime somebody opens a book so it says "crack", leave it open (haven't people heard of book-marks? I have no idea about how many times I have closed a family members book because they "didn't bother") or make a donkeyear (don't know if it's the right word. My dictionary didn't have it :/)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Generalist — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:43:41 -0700

- you browse the Gutenberg Project and download the classics to a thumb drive for easy reference. - you think about building an extension to the house to handle additional books and magazines. - you stop watching television on a regular basis because you want time for reading. - you have a program for keeping track of your books. - repairmen visiting your house ask if you are a teacher, based on the books that they see. - you sort books by topic and have several topics, other than fiction, that occupy several shelves. - you reread the rest of the books in a series after the latest book in the series comes out. - you collect specialty dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotes. - you are clueless when it comes to identifying the names of current media and sport stars but you can recite the history of hundreds of fictional characters. - winning a big lottery will mean that you can build the home you wanted, with the giant, yet expandable, library. - you buy leather bound books because they are more durable, they smell good, they are pretty, they feel good and they may be the only way to get certain books in hardback form. - your comfort 'food' is a good book. - you anxiously await the latest book from a couple of dozen writers because you're read everything in your library, several times over.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Behind Imagination — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:51:06 -0700

.. When your heart broke when reading that all the books were burned in Inkheart. When you read that Dustfinger in Inkheart in Inkheart were going to die, you weren't as sad. But.. all the books?!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

snowbug — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:57:56 -0700

.. You prefer reading books in their original language, even if that means you have to learn a new language.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

doomedrider — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:07:35 -0700

You only only bought a e-reader because you need to be reading a book everywhere, (on the bus, while waiting to be interviewed, secretly under your desk at work, or even just while walking down the road), and there are certain tome-like classics that make that somewhat impractical in paper form. (Before I bought a kindle I ruined a number of jackets by insisting on stuffing the Dumas novel I was reading into the pockets so that I always had it to hand)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ariellalphabet — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:27:35 -0700

When your friends can name authors and you can name at least one novel they've written... happened to me on skype the other night lol.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

deasoline — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:28:19 -0700

... when you spent half of your autumn break in the library. ... when you've read all your course litterature for this year already. Twice. ... when you complain about not having enough of money for food and clothes all the time, but somehow still can afford buying new books. ... when you started reading books in English when you were eleven years old - even though it's your third language and you started studying it the year before - because you disliked translations so much. ... when you read classics in old English even though your mothertongue is Swedish at the age of fifteen - and understand most of it. ... when you somehow manage to read around twenty books each month - besides eight hours school everyday, homework, writing 1000-6000 words / day, meeting friends, playing the piano and life. ... when you can read your favourite books over twenty times and still love them exactly as much as you did the first time you read them. ... when you're ok with your apartment looking like hell, but are ready to kill anybody who puts one single book in its wrong place in your book case. ... when your list of favourite books contains over seventy different book series. ... when you've been planning your Christmas list since July - and it only contains books. ... when the first question you ask everybody you meet is "Do you read?" - and immediately dislike them a little if they answer no.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Acile — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:30:52 -0700

- you love the smell of pages and find it fascinating how books from different publishers have different smells. - you read while in the bath even though it means that the book is getting soaked by the steam. - you can't be bothered to go to the library when the bookshop is nearer (even though it means spending more money). - you freak out when the book you've been waiting for doesn't show up in the bookshop on the day of its release, but only a few days later. - every time you go home for the weekend your trunk is filled with at least 3 books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

purple.marshmallow — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:35:01 -0700

...you hoard notebooks, and don't write in half of them because they're too pretty ....you take it as a personal insult when your English class do a book you love Off topic but I sort everyone I meet into one of the four Hogwarts houses. HP nerd here N8D (and yes that is a HP smiley :)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Areedhel — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:39:26 -0700

Haha, awesome smiley!! HP nerd here as well

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Areedhel — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:45:56 -0700

-when you get super excited entering a bookshop -when you've read favourite books so many times that your parents ask you whether it really is fun reading the same book more than once -when you're extremely careful with your books, especially your favourites -when you move abroad and get very excited over the local library, partly because it means you can read the books in the language they were written in, not having to deal with the translations -when you get honestly upset upon seeing the horrible translations of book titles

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Burlew — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:55:00 -0700

[quote=Aiyandra] ... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'. [/quote] Yes, this!!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

PlasticSmoothie — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:26:25 -0700

- When friends and family just leave you in a bookstore when they have to go sort something they know you don't care about. - When the highlight of your holiday to another country is to go see which books they have in the bookstores. - When you spend much time checking out the books on the bookshelves of someone you're visiting and use the books there to determine which kind of person they are. - When you'd rather buy books than getting them from a library just because you want them to be on your shelf when you're done with them. - No holiday is complete without books for the trip. - Your family doesn't applaud you for reading, they think it's slightly annoying.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Merenwen — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:58:59 -0700

...your grandmother is offended that your Christmas list is made up of mostly books. ...you can see a slight warp to your bookshelves. ...you get upset when you accidentally bend a paperback cover or break a hardcover spine. ...your grandparents get you a Chapters Indigo (a Canadian bookstore, like Barnes & Noble) gift card for your birthday, and another for Christmas.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

karmic_devil — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:13:18 -0700

...you find meaning in EVERYTHING. "Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!" -Henry James

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

WileJ — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:49:52 -0700

...you ditch everything else to see and author talk about his/her work even if you've never read his/her book(s) ...when you base the success of your year on the number of books you read/if you read as many books as you resolved to read at the beginning of the year ... when you plan your week/day by which book you're going to read and when

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

TreeWhisperer — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:22:17 -0700

...you dance around the house for an hour when the author of a book you love sends you a bookplate. ^Happened to me two weeks ago. I still have a spaz attack when I look at the bookplate :D

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Behind Imagination — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:11:32 -0700

.. When you cannot understand why anyone would answer "no" if asked whether they read or not.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Inkblot — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:19:56 -0700

.... When you get kicked out of Barns & Noble. It's happens. Don't ask. Or when your bookshelf breaks under the strain....

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Stormin Mormon — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:40:29 -0700

...When you get read so fast you get a headache, but you don't care because it's exciting.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Bewitched.Rhapsody — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:15:32 -0700

Yep. XD This. I always also look at the title, pick up the book, read the back. Usually by this point I think, "Ugh, cliche". But if I want to give it a chance, I open it up and read the first line (does it grab me?) and then read the first page. Then I usually toss the book away. I also give a scathing look to all of the paranormal romance novels before proceeding to trying to find an actual good book.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

QuiSaitRien — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:43:46 -0700

When you raise the circulation rate at your library by roughly 3 percent. When the librarians know you by name. When the librarians have a box designated specifically for your interlibrary loans. When your second favorite way to spend time at the library is wandering up and down the Sci-Fi shelf, looking for books you haven't read yet, because it's like Where's Waldo. When your FAVORITE way to spend time at the library is to wander the fiction section at large, just taking books you want to read until you can no longer actually hold them all. When one of your prized possessions is a signed book by your favorite author. When your family doesn't even bother asking if you have a certain classic novel, or even a certain classic short story or poem - they just ask for it. And you always have it.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

zitheeb — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:45:33 -0700

...when you feel extremely uncomfortable and anxious if you leave the house without at LEAST one book on your person. ...when your English teacher excuses you from tests because you know more than she does. ...when your favorite store in any town is the book store that has old, rare volumes literally piled from floor to ceiling. ...when your dad comes to you for something new to read instead of going to the library. ...when you want to boil someone if hot oil when they call books "stupid". ...when you're better at organizing the shelves and returning books to their correct place than the old librarian that's worked there for longer than you've been alive. ...when you buy a new book every time you go out, even though you haven't finished reading the last one yet. ...when you can read three books at a time and still separate the plots in your head afterward. ...when you can't decide which books to list as your favorites, so you either list the ones you read most recently, or you write, "Anything and everything, as long as it doesn't suck." ...When you buy a typewriter simply because it's the same model used by a well-known and influential author. ...When, because of your nearly photographic memory, you can remember nearly everything from a book and therefor don't need to read it more than once...but you do anyway, for nostalgia's sake.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

violetgateway — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:15:59 -0700

...When the librarians acctually jump up and hug you when the find out your health has gotten a lot better. ...When the librarians offer you a job, even though they know your health isn't the best, you have never had a job before and will probably spend a lot of the time picking up books for yourself to read. ...When the librarians keep the library open to just you for an extra twenty minutes because you're waiting for your mum to come pick you up after you've found your books. ...When apart from wanting to be an author and write as many books as possible, you want your side job to be in a library and you acctually get that job. all these have happened to me :D

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

im_a_riting_rebel — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:18:26 -0700

... when you read classics in school and are the only one to raise your hand when the teachers asks who's already read it. ... when you start mumbling "I love Big Brother, I love Big Brother" anytime soembody says "2 + 2 = 4" around you

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ardnassac — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:33:37 -0700

... you own multiple copies of your favorite book(s) because it seems wrong somehow to leave a lone copy on a bookstore shelf. (Ahhh, Jane Eyre.)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Peevish — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:50:13 -0700

... when you hold your book carefully so the spine doesn't crack or the pages don't crease. ... when sometimes you're afraid of lending your books to people in fear of the books getting damaged. ... when you have to put a row of books in front of the first row of books on your bookshelf because you own too many books. ... when you run out of room on your bookshelf and start stacking books on tables and on the floor.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Rensy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:55:59 -0700

I seriously thought I was alone. x3

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Rensy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:00:27 -0700

...You get in trouble for reading in your Language Arts class. ...You stare at someone in disbelief who claims they've never read a book with more than 100 pages. ...You go to a library a pick up 10 books at a time even though there's a two week due date, but you're still determined to finish them all.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Rensy — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:02:43 -0700

[quote=QuiSaitRien] When the librarians know you by name. [/quote] Guilty x3

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:14:24 -0700

... when your librarian stops you every time you walk into the library to tell you about thet new book that they just got in and ask you if you've read it already. ... when he interviewed you for the site of the library ... when he asked you to check the new site and write reviews ... when he looked honestly disappointed when you said you couldn't come to that speech.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Gilly Bean — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:51:28 -0700

...You cannot choose your favorite book ...You chew your friend's ears off about the latest book you've read ...You can't wait to proofread your friend's essays/stories

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

bluijedi22 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:10:35 -0700

. . . your favorite book contains over 5,000 pop culture references (Ready Player One by Ernest Cline)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amelia217 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:46:00 -0700

**cheers** <3 Chaucer and Sir Gawain. I did my college thesis on 4 different translations of the final scene of Gawain. And then when I had to present it, my teacher had me read an excerpt from the original to the audience!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

daqu — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:48:44 -0700

- a stranger could walk in your room and look at your bookshelf and be able to instantly pick out your favorite books because they're falling apart - you love your parents for buying a house within walking distance to the library when you were still too young to drive (that's why I was so skinny when I was younger!) - every christmas and birthday list is mostly books - you major in literature/english - your idea of retail therapy is browsing a bookstore - every time someone tries to recommend a good book to you, you've already read it - you bring books on all your vacations - your friends come to you when they need good books to read - when you finally get that house with the inconspicuous wine glass you turn to open up the door to the secret compartment, the secret compartment will be full of bookshelves full of the books you couldn't fit in your library

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amelia217 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:49:52 -0700

Even in college, I used to shop at the college bookstore. Mid semester when I had all my text books. I'd get home with a stack of new books to show off.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amelia217 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:56:53 -0700

[quote=Behind Imagination] .. When you have stayed up all night just for reading. First realising it 5 o'clock. .. When you die a little inside everytime somebody opens a book so it says "crack", leave it open (haven't people heard of book-marks? I have no idea about how many times I have closed a family members book because they "didn't bother") or make a donkeyear (don't know if it's the right word. My dictionary didn't have it :/) [/quote] I've definitely stayed up all night reading, with school the next day and that guilty pit in my gut saying, "Go to bed." But the other side says, "Just one more chapter," and before I know it I'm done with the book and I have 15 minutes before I have to get up for school. And I know the crack you mean. Like someone just broke the book's arm and doesn't care. And the donkeyear, I think people just call it "earmarking," though I totally understand what you mean by donkeyear.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

nahald — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:11:44 -0700

This is brilliant! I thought I was the only one crazy like this ^^.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amelia217 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:11:58 -0700

... you can't help but gawk at someone when you mention you just finished a great book and they respond, "Oh, I don't read." ... you get excited about a Christmas present entitled "The Adventures of English: The Biography of a Language." ... your book club reads a classic Jane Austen novel, and your fellow members have "trouble with the language" that you breezed through. And then you sit there listening to them say how hard it was while you resist screaming, "It's English!" ... your mystery book club reads a cheesy modern book that hurts your soul, and to make yourself feel better you go charge $20 in the classics section, earning you weird looks and comments from your fellow book club members.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

nahald — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:21:46 -0700

[quote=Peevish] ... when you have to put a row of books in front of the first row of books on your bookshelf because you own too many books. ... when you run out of room on your bookshelf and start stacking books on tables and on the floor. [/quote] Yup! :D

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

nahald — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:27:24 -0700

...when the first time you went to London you bought 21 books because British bookstores are heavenly. ...when the second you went to London you bought 22 books because you had to buy more than you did the first time. ...when you don't let yourself go into bookstores because you don't have room for more books, and no time to read the ones you have (sadly). ...when most of the posts on this forum apply to you.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Bahnree — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:36:19 -0700

(this is an amazing thread! I'm amused/disturbed by how many of these make me shout "ME, TOO!" So here's some more, some of them are probably here already....) -you read classics for fun -you try to get your friends to read classics -you squeal with joy when someone asks you to recommend a book -you have a handy recommendation list of books on your person at all times -your main criteria when buying handbags/purses is, "How many books can I fit in this? Paperback or hardback?" -you will buy a book even if all your clothes are fraying -you go to libraries/bookstores just to hang out (not to mention all the times you go there to get a book)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

RebeccaMolloy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:48:21 -0700

- When the owner of one of your favourite secondhand bookshops knows when your birthday is and lets you have a free book as a present. - When you get a discount from both of those secondhand bookshops for being a regular customer. - When your favourite place in the world is Hay-on-Wye. I insist on going there at least once a year - and came back home last time having bought 27 books!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

PenGryphon2007 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:22:10 -0700

Definitely this!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Arlequin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:37:10 -0700

- The complete works of Oscar Wilde counts as "light reading".

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Julie-I — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:00:24 -0700

I do think that! I've been trying to find some books for a while... *sigh*

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Julie-I — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:01:06 -0700

... or read during a course/seminar. Yeap, this happened to me.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lovely_Livvy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:02:28 -0700

u imangine urself in ur favorite book and start have conversations with the characters in ur head

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ScribblerK80 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:07:55 -0700

"... when the first question you ask everybody you meet is "Do you read?" - and immediately dislike them a little if they answer no." For me, I'm afraid I skip that question and ask WHAT they read, because not reading just isn't an option.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ScribblerK80 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:10:20 -0700

When none of the things mentioned here seem unusual in the slightest, but you think, "What weirdo WOULDN'T live like this?"

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

aftersh0cks — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:12:21 -0700

I've done that a couple times before.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

gxeninjo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:27:36 -0700

This is so much fun and so true. You know you'rea literary nerd when: ..You feel sorry when shelves don't have the bend in the middle. They look so sad. ...When you borrow your family members library cards because the 30 book limit is not enough. ...You promise yourslef that you will not fill up your new college library account (50 book limit :) ) but still find yourself with a full acount a few weeks letter and explaining to the librarian that you just turned in a bunch of books. ...At the library they always know when you're there and automatically start checking in books. The listen for the tell-tale thunk of books. ....At the library you always have to wait for them to check in your books to pick up your holds. ....You limit your time on your library's website because if you don't you will end up requesting as many books as you're allowed to have checked out. ....when your family and friends have an overdue book they just give it to you to turn in because you'll be there long before they will ever get around to going there. ....you can hardly work without piles of books around you. ....your corner of the couch is off limits to the rest of the family because they are affraid of knocking over your piles of books. ....you fill up your backpack with books even though you know that you'll only have an hour at most for fun reading.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

CheyennevanStrange — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:35:34 -0700

...you are addicted to sniffing...books, that is. ...if you spend an hour in a book store, just staring at the amazing-ness of books, that's short for you. ...you are convinced the reason Barnes N' Nobles has comfy chairs by the books is for you. ...your heart actually starts beating faster when you notice that your birthday/christmas present is rectangular and thick. ...it then does a skip when it has been confirmed that the content is, indeed, a book. ...it's cheaper for you to get a Nook/Kindle/thing, but then you would miss out on the touch, feel ,smell, etc. of real books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lady_Indis_Dress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:19:21 -0700

How can I possibly not ask? I may have to put this on my bucket list: get kicked out of a B&N.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

callmeIndigo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:33:31 -0700

...even your teachers are shocked when you don't have a book with you. I mean, my school is small, so our teachers know us better individually than most, but when I finished a test early and my teacher gave me a shocked look because I didn't have anything to read...yeah.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

callmeIndigo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:37:49 -0700

[quote=Gilly Bean] ...You can't wait to proofread your friend's essays/stories [/quote] Guilty.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

callmeIndigo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:43:28 -0700

...you are stunned to learn that the average person reads only six books a year, because you read that much in a week.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

FreeElf — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:55:28 -0700

[quote]...your grandparents get you a Chapters Indigo (a Canadian bookstore, like Barnes & Noble) gift card for your birthday, and another for Christmas.[/quote] Oh, this happens to me all the time. My birthday and Christmas are only a couple of days apart, and I usually have about $100 in Barnes & Noble gift cards by the time we're done celebrating with everybody in my family. I absolutely love going and spending them. :)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

holunder — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:07:28 -0700

I once lend out some of my NEW books to my sister and got them back with the arm broken....I still can't forgive her ...

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

edgewritermom — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:10:14 -0700

...a book you really wanted is a more welcome Christmas gift than a piece of jewelry that's worth more in dollars.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

HawkW — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:12:44 -0700

That's good fun.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

adklib — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:21:10 -0700

... you were once punished by your parents by being told you couldn't read. Worst week of my life.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

edgewritermom — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:23:16 -0700

...you read that quote by Erasmus* and think, "Hey, that sounds like OUR house!" and use it as your email sig line. ----------------------- *When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” ― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

fargreencountry-swiftsunrise — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:59:52 -0700

I love Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (and Shakespeare and Chaucer). Check Out cafepress.com. They have a t-shirt that says "BEOWULF- BECAUSE CHAUCER IS TOO EASY". I thought I was the only one who shivers at the thought of an abridged classic.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

fargreencountry-swiftsunrise — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:06:05 -0700

I second that! Definitely going on the bucket list. Yep, I broke my first bookshelf. (Admittedly, it was only 20 bucks, but still...)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

fargreencountry-swiftsunrise — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:07:25 -0700

Second on the guilty part.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Game and Watch Kirby — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:11:17 -0700

- When you cannot tolerate your classmates using sparknotes in lieu of reading, and your explanation is not "it's immoral/bad for your education" or etc., but your explanation is "but the book is so good!" - You know what "Wherefore" means. - You are the only one in your English class that likes or even understands Catch-22. - You feel guilty that you haven't read enough books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

fargreencountry-swiftsunrise — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:13:51 -0700

I was shocked by that statistic too. The average American only reads about 60 books in their adulthood. I read that much in a slow year (and I am not someone who breaks the library book limits unless I have a research project).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:32:05 -0700

[quote=Peevish] ... when sometimes you're afraid of lending your books to people in fear of the books getting damaged. [/quote] All. The. Time. No matter who it is, no matter how much they love to read, no matter how well I know them... I just get so scared for my beloved novels. Especially when I have to lend books to my sisters for school. Somehow, being chosen by their teachers, it makes those books less worthy of care in their opinion. Ohh, how I hate summer reading >_<" ... when you spend extra time at your college library reading books you find interesting. ... when you choose reading as your "break" from studying (especially if it's for finals). ... when you go all Grammar Nazi on your friends when they speak, are drunk, and/or send you texts. ... when your friends are careful how they speak around you because they know you'll correct their mistakes. ... when you die a little inside when people tell you they don't like to read.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:34:14 -0700

[quote=Gilly Bean] ...You can't wait to proofread your friend's essays/stories [/quote] I've been like that for weeks now because a friend of mine needed college essays edited. Finally got the chance to take a look at them today XD

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Septimus Pfluger — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:18:46 -0700

... When the books they make you read in school you actually enjoy. And I'm talking Dostoyevsky and Joyce and all those 'oh god oh god why do I have to read this ****ing book?' groan (from the rest of the class) inducing authors. ... When you begin to philosophize about the small trivialities of the above novels like a connoisieur would mull over a fine glass of wine. ... When you actually make eye contact with your English teacher when not in class.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:32:08 -0700

... when you are so used to carrying a book under your arm that you don't realise you've taken it to somewhere important, even though you meant to leave it at home. ... When you wake up with a bookpage glued to your face

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MelanieBricket — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:05:15 -0700

...you name farms in your nanowrimo story after your favorite authors/characters yea that's what I did.. I have the Potter Farm (Harry Potter), the Snicket Farm (Lemony Snicket), the O'Brien Farm (1984), the Ponyboy Farm Ranch (The Outsiders) ALSO ...when someone else mentions a book you like, you feel like your in a secret club o.o

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Bloody Mary Sue — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:32:19 -0700

...you absolutely do not care that you're toting around a few pounds of Shakespeare with you constantly. ...you get extra money and your first stop is a shopping spree at Half Price Books. ...you have books lying on every avalible surface because the little bookshelf in your posession is going to crack under the weight. ...someone asks you what your favorite book is and you have to get back to them on it in a few days. ...you've become notorious amongst friends for carrying books everywhere.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

-FantasyWriter- — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:25:11 -0700

[quote=Aiyandra] ... you study French because you want to read Les Miserables in the original version. ... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'. [/quote] ...Or The Three Musketeers, or The Count of Monte Cristo. *sighs* And, yes. I often believe my books are holding up my bookshelves, instead of the other way around.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

1-plus-i — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:30:03 -0700

...you take four books with you when you go to spend one night at your cousin's house -- and it's not like your cousin doesn't have books. ...you ask people how they feel about the Oxford comma. ...every time you check out library books, the librarians tell you that you have 'varied interests'. ...you need to bring a book when you go there. No matter where 'there' is. ...your school librarian tells you that she always notices what books you check out ... and that she often reads them after you return them. ...the girl sitting next to you in your science class is amazed when you seem to be reading a different book every day. You explain that it's possible to be reading more than one book at once, pause to count, and realize that you're in the middle of about 8 books. ...you read every post on this thread.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Nerd Girl — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:49:32 -0700

"... when your friends say they don't like to read and you reply with "You just haven't found the right book for you, yet"." Happens to me ALL THE TIME.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Mandi-Loo 322 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:07:54 -0700

Oh my goodness, this thread is wonderful! ...when you buy a British edition of Harry Potter to read on a train during your first visit to the UK ...when your coworkers stop inviting you to lunch and smoke breaks because they know you'll always be reading. ...you judge the usefulness of handbags by how big of a book you could put in it ...you've read your "favorite" book more than twenty times, have nearly memorized it, yet still find yourself enthralled with it at least once a year ...whenever you visit homes with lots of books you know you'll be good friends with whoever lives there ...you're envious of familial libraries from the 1800s because everyone in their families would contribute to it ...you read "The Seven Basic Plots" ...you follow more authors than celebrities on Twitter

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:26:12 -0800

It's nice to see that the thread aren't dying away :D ... When you have an entire shelf in your bookshelf for books loaned from people you know.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

LordofPride — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:43:05 -0800

When you answer a question no one else knows and they look at you funny and you answer "I read" in a condescending tone. You don't like the idea of E-Readers in favour of Real Books When moving into a new apartment the first thing you by is a bookshelf When choosing between clothes and books you pick books

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

mackenziebradley — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:49:15 -0800

I call it "dogearring" the pages.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

CaveatLector — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:57:57 -0800

- When you read Shakespeare in the original, old-fashioned English even though English is not your first language. - When you can actually say something about classic literature that isn't praise. - When you live in a big city and yet the people who work in your favourite bookstore know your name. - When you have a favourite and least favourite style of writing instead of genre or author (for me, favourite = post-modernism, least favourite = minimalism.) - When you geek out with your teacher over literature. - When you absolutely refuse to say anything about a genre unless you've read at least five different authors from it. - When you're scandalized if someone doesn't like reading. - When your first thought after buying a new book is "Wait, do I have room for this?" - When you realize that while other people spend too much money on parties and clothes, you spend WAY too much money on books!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

writing4ever — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:10:18 -0800

This thread describes me perfectly. -when you speak with the type of language they use in your current book(hasn´t happened to me yet but to my friend it has) -Your vocabulary is higher than most adults you know

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

B. C. Powers — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:32:41 -0800

...every situation calls for a quote from a classic. ...you write a literary nerd into one of your stories just for the chance to quote literature. (Mine is a secondary character, but is quickly taking over the story.) ...you randomly pick up one of the classics you own just to re-read your favorite chapter, even though you've practically got it memorized.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

B. C. Powers — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:39:33 -0800

That became the standard punishment for me when I was a kid! I was always skipping chores, getting behind on homework, being late, etc. because I was reading. Often, I would forget reading was forbidden and just pick up a book by default; then I got in bigger trouble. Thankfully, now I'm an adult, and I can be stupid if I want to. (I just have to take the consequences...like lack of sleep...)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

B. C. Powers — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:42:42 -0800

[quote=Bloody Mary Sue] ...someone asks you what your favorite book is and you have to get back to them on it in a few days. [/quote] This is why my sister has taken to asking, "What's your *current* favorite book?" because it's usually the one you're in the middle of or just finished.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

B. C. Powers — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:47:14 -0800

One semester, I equated every one of my college professors with a Hogwarts teacher from the third year. The ultra-fun Physics guy was Lupin, the strict but fair teacher was McGonnagall (if that's how you spell it), and the teacher who taught the horrible, useless class and actually LIKED it was Trelawney...at least in my mind. I never told them, of course. Z8D (Awesome smiley, by the way!)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

B. C. Powers — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:48:28 -0800

N8D Oops, I did it wrong the first time.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Kat_MacKenzie — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:54:02 -0800

*No one is surprised when you enthusiastically tell them a Barnes and Noble gift card is the PERFECT birthday or Christmas present (and you are secretly irritated when they get you something you have to unwrap) *You campaign your school to allow you to read all the "Banned Books". *The most horrific thing you can think of is a house fire...how will you get all the books out in time? They must not burn! *You REFUSE to get a job at any bookstore (even though it would be AWESOME) because you know you will spend your entire paycheck there before you get home. *All your ex's know if they want to find you, to look for you at the local bookstores. *The city librarian asks you to be on the planning committee for their newest project, and you don't even work there. *The school librarian asked for your help picking out new books for the school library. *Yard sales are for books only. You offer to take all the books for one flat rate. *New pens and notebook sales make you squeal and dance around with joy...you don't care that all the moms shopping for back to school supplies are staring. *You are stressed because your computer is making funny noises and you're not sure how much longer it will live. (Please please don't die during NaNo!) *You're friends and co-workers are worried about you because you are upset about something that happened in your novel ("Well...YOU wrote it! Why are you upset? Just re-write it!") You get even more upset at that suggestion... *Even the cats know to leave you alone while you're reading or writing on the computer. *The family knows that if you're reading, they are on their own for dinner that day. *Any extra money you have goes toward books...and you haggle to get the prices lower, just so you can buy an extra book or two.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Quinzy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:20:14 -0800

When you enjoy biography or historical fiction When you're passionate about writing and have many ideas The library is your favourite place (obviously) Enjoy learning from language books You love Renaissance poetry and try to make some of your own

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

folgates — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:24:04 -0800

Oh if my mom would let me, I would do this all year long!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

blu_sour_skittle — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:05:09 -0800

definitely ditched school in favor of the library a couple of times. ^^

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

blu_sour_skittle — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:14:46 -0800

Ooohhh... I hate cracked book spines. I don't understand why anyone would do that. It makes me want to cry. My boyfriend used to do that, but I quickly (and quite harshly) trained him out of that habit. I have a habit of not loaning books to certain people because of how they mistreat them. I mean, I'm all for people wanting to read and loving to read, and I love helping other book lovers get their fix. . . but not when they are going to ruin my books. I loaned out a copy of "The Lovely Bones" which ended up getting passed around to a couple of people. It came back to me with so many cracks in the spine that you can no longer read the title. I don't care if you think they are "love marks." I can read a whole book just fine without cracking the spine, why can't you? Don't you realize that after bending it that way so many times, it will fall apart? I would rather have my book for forty years with only a few cracks, by accident, then purposely destroy it over the course of a couple years and have to replace all the time. I had a similar issue with a book called "Unwind." It got loaned to one friend, and she loaned it to, like, everybody, because it was so amazing and she felt that everyone she ever knew needed to read that book. By the time I got it back. . . *shudder* I don't even want to talk about it. Lets just say that I let her keep that copy and bought a new one. Where I am from, they call it dog-earing or earmarking, but I know what you mean. I do have to say that that is one of my poorer habits with books. I tend to earmark, rather than bookmark. Mostly because I tend to lose my bookmarks far too easily.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:25:48 -0800

... you attempt NaNoWriMo. ... you have won NaNoWriMo at least once. ... you get personally offended if someone does not a) like a book that you love and/or b) say he doesn't like to read. ... you reconsider having romantic feelings for a person who claims s/he doesn't like to read.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

TheGildedFox — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:26:49 -0800

I apologize if any of these things have been previously mentioned. All of these are 100% accurate for my life. When you plan all your vacations and trips around author's birthplaces and the settings of favorite novels that you're going to reread once you get there. When you seriously contemplate learning German just so that you can read Goethe in the original language. When the people around you understand less than a third of references/jokes that you make on any given day. When you have to pause the DVD to rant for ten minutes about changes that have been made when you are watching a movie adaption of a novel you've read. When no one wants to watch movies with you anymore (see above). You spent more time in the library than your dorm room in college (and it was for fun, not for studying!) When you are thinking about moving so that you can have an extra room JUST for books. (Come on, who here wouldn't want to pay an extra $100 bucks a month rent just to have their own LIBRARY). When you're first thought and reaction to any circumstances is wondering how you can work this into your next novel. When you organize your teas/coffee collection by literary genre (i.e., This Earl Grey is only for British Mysteries... this herbal concoction is definitely a Sci Fi tea. This dark roasted coffee is most appropriate for gothic novels....) You don't have time to watch television because it would take away from your reading time. You've worked in a bookstore and you spent half of your paycheck BEFORE LEAVING THE BUILDING. You buy multiple copies of the same book (the edition matters, people!) People have to move stacks of books to find a place to sit down in your house. Your cats are named after book characters (and you can't have children because you would name them something embarrassing like Lestat or Dorian or Jane or Sherlock or Holden or Scout or Anne (with an E) or Eddard or Trillian or Annabel Lee...etc...)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

TheGildedFox — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:35:38 -0800

...and the ink has left a backwards imprint of the text on your check and forehead. Been there.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Raellyn — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:41:58 -0800

When people mention they're reading a very obscure book and you've read it at least twice. All your future children are named after characters like Tyrian Kingslayer, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and you vow to never name even a goldfish Isabella or Edward. You check out enough books from the library a week to fill a car backseat. Parties to you are just convenient social reading events. NaNoWriMo to you is about practicing different styles of writing. Ayn Rand is your hero.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:54:38 -0800

[quote=Raellyn] Ayn Rand is your hero. [/quote] I have not yet read "Atlas Shrugged," but after seeing the film, I think she very well might be once I get around to reading it. ... no one understands the references you make because many of them are about literary classics. ... you have rules about how to handle your books, and you spout out the list to people whenever they ask to or need to borrow your books (I. Hate. Summer reading. My sisters never respect my novels). ... you can tell your roommate in a second about a site she can go to that explains how to use the Chicago Manual of Style format for her bibliography (happened tonight XD). ... you don't understand why people make the same grammar mistakes no matter how many times you edit their papers (PERIODS GO AFTER THE QUOTATION MARKS. GOSH O_O ). ... no hmwk assignment seems long anymore because you've completed NaNoWriMo, even when it's an 8-10 page paper. ... you get frustrated when you can't go beyond a certain page limit for papers. ... you can easily make a 5 page paper a 10 or 12 page paper because the novel it's on has so many topics you want to explore in your writing.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

blu_sour_skittle — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:06:20 -0800

xDDDD that reminds me of the line in Pirates, "Why is the rum gone?" but replace rum with books. xD "You burnt all the food, the shade, the books." "yes, the books are gone." "Why are the books gone?" "One, because they are vile little things that can turn even the most reliable people into procrastinating reclusive hermits. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire royal navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is even the slightest chance that they won't see it?" "... But why are the books gone?"

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lynx_Tiger — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:07:20 -0800

When you read all the classics (William Shakespeare, Jane Austin, Ben Stoker, Sir.Arthur Conan Doyle) Hate when teenagers fawn over horribly written books and think it's the best thing they ever read when Harry Potter, The Nighters, Peeps, Uglies/Pretties/Specials, Hunger Games truly top it all off. When all you want for christmas is a gift card to your favorite book store. When your English teacher stops calling on you since you know too much about the author and book that's going to be read. When your English teacher likes the fact that you take recommendations and follow through on reading them and give a review back for extra credit. Hate when bad literature is getting published (I mean spelling errors and grammar errors.) When you read the whole mythology section and find interest in biographies of world history interesting. When your bookshelf is filled with books no one's ever /read/. When you speak eloquently to the classroom and people are like...can you dumb it down? When you figure out that those from the 19th 18th 17th century have better stories. When you know the correct way to say words (inexplicable instead of unexplainable, definitely not defiantly). My favorite: When people stare at you for reading five books at the same time and then say that reading is just a job...a job? I wish!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lynx_Tiger — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:11:06 -0800

Ayn Rand's Anthem is my favorite book. @midnight_abyss92: This. All this. Hands down.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lynx_Tiger — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:15:10 -0800

When I say same time I mean different times during the day. You read one book and bookmark it and then go to the next book and bookmark it...not exactly at the same time.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Raellyn — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:22:25 -0800

I generally just read books fast enough that I don't need to read multiple books at once...I just read three or four in a day.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:05:11 -0800

[quote=CaveatLector] - When your first thought after buying a new book is "Wait, do I have room for this?" [/quote] And then you think... "A what the heck, I'll make room for it"

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

grumbaut — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:32:51 -0800

[quote=Lynx_Tiger] When you speak eloquently to the classroom and people are like...can you dumb it down? [/quote] Ha! This. Definitely this. When I went on vacation with some friends this summer, the place we stayed at had awesome amenities. So as we walked around, that's what I said--"This place has awesome amenities." I was essentially met with blank stares. "What are amenities?" they said. I said, "They're the things the complex includes, like the pool, the tennis court, the laundromat." "Oh...Couldn't you just say 'perks'?" No. I couldn't just say "perks." I didn't mean "perks"! If that's what I meant, I would've said it. Besides, "amenities" isn't even a big word!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

grumbaut — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:36:29 -0800

...your idea of a dream house centers solely around a room you can use as a library/writing space. ...you always have a book with you wherever you go--church, the movies, etc. ...you know how to properly use a semicolon. ...people think you're some kind of super genius just because you've cracked open a book outside of a classroom.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Real Horrorshow — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:48:30 -0800

When you get very excited about moving to a bigger city with bigger libraries. That fantastic wave of respect I earn for people who understand my constant references, or the crushing mental anguish when they don't. That horrible moment when someone assumes that the "Cthulhu" in your email is only a deadmau5 reference and you cry and your tears are human souls. Finishing the books for your English classes so quickly that you have to reread them several times just to be on the same page as the others. Actually received detentions for this in elementary school. Go to Goodwill, leave with a basket of books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

JonnotheMackem — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:03:29 -0800

Whenever anyone mentions a book or an author, you say "I've read xxx", unless it's by Dan Brown. You read Atlas Shrugged in a week. You read all 7 Potters in 8 days. You can't walk into a bookshop without leaving with "Three for £20" You don't know who the villain in Die Hard is, your housemate laughs at you. He doesn't know who Raskolnikov is. You laugh at him.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

grumbaut — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:51:08 -0800

[quote=Nerd Girl] "... when your friends say they don't like to read and you reply with "You just haven't found the right book for you, yet"." Happens to me ALL THE TIME. [/quote] That's what I say!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

grumbaut — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:58:10 -0800

When someone says they hate reading, you think they're only half-alive.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:26:30 -0800

Oh gosh. In my 2am delirium, I made a mistake about the grammatical error everyone makes. I mean to say that periods go after the parentheses.. or don't go after the quotation marks *headdesk* My roommate's right. I am a mess .___. ... your roommate doesn't think twice about you're being able to recommend sites that explain MLA versus CMS formats. ... you hate when tweens try to have a serious discussion about Twilight, then proceed to have a serious discussion with a friend about how all it is is a rip-off of classic lit, then pretend the whole conversation never happened because you were both just total hypocrites about your rant. As far as anyone else is aware, you guys talked about Jane Austen and Emily Bronte. Which you did anyway. ... you get excited for certain in-class readings because you've either always wanted to read that particular book or because it's one of your favorites. ... you can't understand why people don't love the class readings you do.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnight_abyss92 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:31:45 -0800

[quote=Lynx_Tiger] Hate when teenagers fawn over horribly written books and think it's the best thing they ever read when Harry Potter, The Nighters, Peeps, Uglies/Pretties/Specials, Hunger Games truly top it all off. When you figure out that those from the 19th 18th 17th century have better stories. When you know the correct way to say words (inexplicable instead of unexplainable, definitely not defiantly). [/quote] Yes. These three. Especially the first one. I get that HP is a great series, BUT THERE ARE OTHER BOOKS OUT THERE, NON-NANO PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WHO WON'T SEE THIS POST!.... *sigh* ... you want to walk down to the local used bookstore to take a break from all the college stress. ... you personally know the woman who runs that store and adore her. ... you sniff a new book you buy in class during a lecture, and hope your professor doesn't think you're crazy. ... you peruse your college library or bookstore for new and interesting books to read when you're killing time. ... you find a book you've been wanting to read in aforementioned bookstore, and you're so excited you jump up to reach a better handled copy of the book when you're too short to reach it properly. ... you're not even bummed out that you're too short to reach the book you want because you're smart. You're innovative. You know you'll find a way to get it. ... you're bummed you don't always have the time to stay on top of in-class readings.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

eerabbit — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:33:52 -0800

your roommate who you've only met for about a month buys you books the young adults section at your local library consists mostly of books you've donated to them over the years you contemplate for days about whether or not you really need a new pair of shoes when your current ones are rubbing your feet raw, but only need two seconds to decide that you must get the latest [insert author]'s novel when you still have three of their books waiting to be read you've trained people from very early on that the only presents you'll ever want are bookstore giftcards or cash (to spend at a bookstore) leaving a bookstore is like getting your heart ripped out (who will care for all these books??) you consider making a terms of agreement form for people who want to borrow your books you get horribly depressed every time you think of all the books you haven't read "Oh, that was a great book!" "...that was a book? I'm talking about the movie." "There's a movie?" you want to be immortal so you can read all the books in the world you want to learn every language in the world to in order to do the above you consider becoming best friends with your professor because she said she likes to smell books you've run into a pole while walking with your nose buried in a book your elementary school teacher complains on your report card that you don't play with kids at recess because you're reading you freak out when you accidentally crease the cover of your book and contemplate buying a new one you used to hand copy books that you borrowed from the teacher's library (this was back in first grade, when the books weren't all that long) you read with a flashlight under the covers because your mom forced you to go to bed you can spend over two hundred dollars in one trip to the bookstore, but only spend the same amount on a year's worth of clothes

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Star-Gidget-chan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:43:53 -0800

This is why I fail school XDDD

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:34:37 -0800

Where's the like-button in this place...? XD

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:37:24 -0800

Die Hard actually originated from a book... That fact made me extremely happy.

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midnight_abyss92 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:44:54 -0800

Wow.. How on earth do you manage to do that?? What's the average length of the books you read??

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Ell-chan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:09:58 -0800

...When you can tell by a persons looks if s/he likes to read classics

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JonnotheMackem — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:16:24 -0800

[quote=Ell-chan] ...When you can tell by a persons looks if s/he likes to read classics [/quote] Ah now, I've caught lots of people out before.....! Also, I had no idea die hard came from a book - thanks!

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novoamor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:17:21 -0800

...you finish a book and consider it a good enough excuse to buy another 4. ...the other 4 will join the already high pile of "things to read" on your desk. ...the thought you will never get the to end of your ever-growing to-read list is simultaneously exciting and panic-inducing.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ebony_Blaze — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:08:05 -0800

Omigosh, me too! XD

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DarkOwl — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:47:29 -0800

[quote=zitheeb] ...when your dad comes to you for something new to read instead of going to the library. [/quote] This happens to me all the time, except with my mom. She's into a lot of the same kinds of books as me.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

booklover3.14 — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:09:52 -0800

. . . Someone says something mean about a librarian, and you immediately get really angry and launch into a tirade in the defense of said librarian. . . .You visit your school library twice a day on average. . . .Your school principal issued you a special pass last year to allow you to read during lunch. . . . You don't have room for all your books. . . . If someone wants to borrow one of your books, they are questioned deeply about all their reading habits, pets, siblings, bookmarks, etc. . . . When someone gives you back a book that you've borrowed, you examine it thoroughly to make sure it hasn't sustained any damage under his/her care. (If it's not acceptable, they hear about it.) . . . Your dad wanted to make sure you were being social, so he asked what clubs you were in. You responded: book club, poetry club (of which you are secretary), and quiz bowl. He laughed at you. All of these have happened to me.

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Arlequin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:11:07 -0800

- Sometimes you lay awake at night wondering why you're not F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Annaissocoollike — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:27:14 -0800

I relate perfectly.

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Annaissocoollike — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:28:23 -0800

You are doing NaNoWriMo. You almost fail a class because you read instead of doing the work.

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Annaissocoollike — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:29:29 -0800

You have a bucketful of books under your bed that are "to-read".

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Outlier- — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:53:03 -0800

You, my good sir, win the internet in whatever colour of your choosing.

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Strawberrymilk — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:43:30 -0800

:'D I've done that with my moms psychology books

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Strawberrymilk — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:46:42 -0800

your absolutely shocked when you hear that someone hasn't read or even heard of a certain book (some of my friends haven't read or heard of The Great Gatsby D: )

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Strawberrymilk — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:48:08 -0800

oh and most of what you want for Christmas is books not clothes or technology books...Go me!

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MoonPuppy1316 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:32:49 -0800

My parents love Christmas shopping for me XD They just have to go to amazon with the wishlist I make on my kindle and insta-awesome Christmas

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MoonPuppy1316 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:41:20 -0800

.. All of your friends come to you to define or find a synonym for a word. ... When given essay projects at school you're done three days ahead of time. ... You're in Harry Potter and Shakespeare Club

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RebeccaMolloy — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:47:25 -0800

My Dad was doing a puzzle in a magazine the other day and had to call me downstairs to help him answer a question which was to name the author of The Great Gatsby as he didn't know. I stood and stared at him in disbelief for a good couple of minutes then proceeded to finish off the puzzle for him while telling him off for his lack of interest in literature. Seriously, my Dad does not read books AT ALL!

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S22K — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:58:02 -0800

You study Intensive English Lit and find the class funny, and laugh when your teacher makes jokes about antithesis. You are asked to read a few chapters of a book for class, but you have already finished the book.

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ACSilva — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:02:42 -0800

... you feel morally obliged to find "good homes" for the books you have to give away (even those that you don't like), and will mentally make a list of which of your friends can better appreciate and treasure a certain book. ... you will make your friends promise to take good care of said book (even if you hated it). ... you feel ill at the mention of book burning, and will look away from any image\movie showing it. ... even if it was the famous "Breaking Dawn" burnings. ... you will go into hysterics if someone dares to write something on a piece of paper -- using one of your books as support. ... your mother will drag you shop clothing and FORCE you to buy pretty new clothes (and pay for them) -- because you spend all your money on books, and prefer to walk about in 8-years-old jeans\tshirts if you can get new books. ... you carry more than one book in your purse\bag in case you're "in the mood for something different" during the day. ... you don't mind standing in long queues -- it means more time to read! ... you can quote passages verbatim from your favourite books. ... you refuse to leave a book halfway read, even if it's bad. ... your idea of a dream house is one with enough shelf room for all your books so you can finally get them out from those musty boxes. ... sorting your 3000+ collection of books by genres and collections and sizes and colours in your new dream shelves is NOT a chore, but a pleasure. ... you collect bookmarks and will be outraged that someone uses an old subway ticket or a grocery list to mark a passage in a book. ... the notion of dogearing a page to mark in which page you're on will make you twitch uncontrollably.

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TreRose — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:50:11 -0800

I want this t-shirt. That's brilliant.

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smithk654 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:27:00 -0800

When your mom starts a discussion about a random topic and you reply with a whole wealth of specific knowledge. She then asks you how you possibly know all that and you reach over and pull the book you're currently reading out of your bag. (True story.)

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Kristy-Writes — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:20:21 -0800

How do you even get through school without reading The Great Gatsby! BTW... I have a dog called Gatsby. :)

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Kristy-Writes — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:21:19 -0800

You name all of your pets after your favorite literary characters.

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CuriousReflection — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:16:18 -0800

... If you don't have enough time to read (since you can't do one chapter, just the entire book in one go), standing in front of your bookshelf and running your fingers along the spines, remembering how much fun you had, is good enough. ... You choose your pants based on whether you can fit a paperback in the pocket. You can tell the paperback-fitting jeans from the non-, and if you accidentally put on a non- pair you change. ... There are at least three or four whole trees' worth of books in your house. Giant, Amazonian, twenty-foot-diameter-at-the-base trees. ... When you were eight you learned to ride a bike while reading a book. ... When you were nine you learned to successfully make yourself lunch, holding a book in one hand, without once looking away from the pages.

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Kiwi977 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:45:43 -0800

I hate when I can't find the unabridged version of a classic. Why would you abridge a book anyway, if the author wrote a word they wanted it in there. Oh and I just started reading The Cantebury Tales and I LOVE it so far.

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Kiwi977 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:49:20 -0800

Haha I thought I was the only person crazy enough to want to learn French so I could read the original Les Mis! Oh and I never have enough room on my bookshelves. My books are double stacked. (well they were until my parents told me I couldn't take all of my babies to college) :(

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Kate_A — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:37:08 -0800

My favorites! I spent almost $100 on psychology books a week ago. Now I'm broke. XD

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Ominous Rain — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:33:12 -0800

[quote=Aiyandra] ... your parents constantly try to encourage you to go shopping for clothes. You rather want to buy books. ... there is no such thing as 'too many books'. There's just 'not enough bookshelves' or 'not enough room for bookshelves'. [/quote] Yes. And yes. PLEASE TELL MY PARENTS.

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Tearless — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:29:29 -0800

- You're genuinely surprised when you mention 1984 and no one else knows what you're talking about. - The movie adaption of Frankenstein makes you die a little inside. - You believe that the only thing ever to be succesfully abridged was YuGiOh. - You have ever been referred to as the Grammar Führer.

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belesaria — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:39:05 -0800

ME!

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belesaria — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:40:18 -0800

Or when, logically, you know you have more notebooks than you're going to use in years, but the back to school price of ten for ten dollars is just soooooo low, and you know you'll use them eventually...

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the-lonely-angel — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:42:53 -0800

...you wake yourself up in the middle of the night by literally reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 in your sleep.

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CuriousReflection — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:47:28 -0800

[quote=Tearless] - You believe that the only thing ever to be succesfully abridged was YuGiOh. [/quote] You are my freaking HERO.

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the-lonely-angel — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:49:57 -0800

Which, by the way, actually happened to me last Saturday. x3

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Generalist — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:03:24 -0800

- you sometimes discuss ways that you could prevent a Fahrenheit 451 style world from gaining hold. - you think of bad things that could happen to book burners and how they could be done without a trace. - you have multiple copies of favorite books. - you think of what books would be needed to rebuild civilization, and you make sure that you have them in stock. - you wonder what it would take to rescue Hypatia of Alexandria, the last librarian of the Library of Alexandria, plus whatever volumes were in the library at the time. (You do, of course, plan to make things appear that she did die and that nothing from the Library is missing. Cloning, replicators and teleporters are wonderful devices.)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

reba-land — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:32:42 -0800

...when asked what will happen to the money you receive, your family instantly answers with books. ...you order books online and your family no longer tries to read the name on the package, simply hands it to you. ...you read during math class because it is decidedly a better way to spend your time. ...50% of your fantasies include /that/ library.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

midnightrunner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:06:22 -0800

I read a book called 'The Last Book In The Universe' once, and when I saw the title, I was all. "Oh my gosh. That's too scary to even think about." It ended up being an amazing book :)

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mals86 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:56:56 -0800

Yep!

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Cinderpaw — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:01:53 -0800

I suggest an interlibrary loan. You'll have to check with your librarian, but for the library I go to you only have to pay a fee if the book is borrowed from an out-of-state library. Besides that there are some restrictions (my library won't borrow anything less than a year old, and most libraries won't borrow or loan best sellers that are on high demand) and a small waiting period, but you get the book! As I said, it's probably best to ask your librarian for details. :)

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JonnotheMackem — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:17:04 -0800

You start leaving books on London Underground trains, because you just have no more room!

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machine.lady — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:20:28 -0800

I have. In primary school. Accidentally. I thought I would just read a few pages in my current book before I went off to school. Two hours later, my father came into my room and asked if I didn't have school or something... oops. Now I don't do that anymore. I just read in class instead ^^

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machine.lady — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:22:00 -0800

Same! Mostly physics textbooks here, though I've been wanting to get into sociology, too. (For the record, I study CS and math.)

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sarah_hart — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:40:33 -0800

-When you teach yourself to read at the age of 3 because your soul just knew it had to get started soon. -When you dislike a classic author, but it's for legitimate reasons and not just because his books are long/on the school reading list. (I'm looking at you, Dickens.) -When your parents' copies of the entire works of Shakespeare that they bought in Greece in the 60's is given to you when you move out because you get more use out of it, and have coveted it since you were in first grade. -When you cycle the books on your shelf because you live in a one-bedroom apartment and only have two bookshelves.

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Aster Selene — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:53:35 -0800

...you like Shakespeare in Love for reasons other than being into chick flicks.

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machine.lady — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:00:03 -0800

"Why is there a book next to the stove?" is not an unheard-of question in your household. The answer is, of course, "I was reading while I cooked". You've been two hours late to work because you only just realised that your favourite store for used books has a basement, too. A rather stuffed basement. You go to the library when you're upset to cheer yourself up. The best thing that happened to you in the past few weeks is that your favourite bookseller is employed again. Yay! You don't mind if people insult your taste in clothes or music, but if they insult your taste in books, well, *that* is a punch in the gut. You can forgive your sister pretty much anything, even that she blabbed a certain secret to everyone despite being told to keep it to herself, but that she THREW OUT some of your books? You will never forgive her for this. And what did she mean by "I thought you didn't need them anymore"? All of your friends think what your sister did is unforgivable as well. You cancel on friends because "I'm sorry - I've been waiting for this book to be released for years now. It comes out on Tuesday. Of course, I preordered it. I'm really sorry but I can't do Tuesday".

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MoonPuppy1316 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0800

This is the exact reasoning behind my currently having at least 20 composition books XD They're always like 99 cents around the back to school time XD

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MoonPuppy1316 — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:32:19 -0800

... When you can translate Shakepeare without thinking while you read. ... When 'long' is at least 1500 pages or more. ....When you fall asleep repeatedly in english class and still pass because you've already read the material.

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RebeccaMolloy — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:07:30 -0800

When you are actually happy that the shops in one shopping centre have stopped selling certain essentials because that means the only place that sells them is also right near your favourite bookshops and you have a legitimate excuse to visit more often. When the owner of one of those shops knows you well enough that he lets you pay what you want/can afford to for a book that you saw and really wanted but didn't quite have enough for. (Happened to me today. Did my essential shopping, went browsing and saw the complete plays of J.M. Synge for £3 in the secondhand bookshop. I was 4p short so he let me have it for £2.50).

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LilacLex — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:52:39 -0800

....when you have to keep yourself from rolling your eyes at your friend you complains about reading an 150 page book for school. (yeah. We're not friends anymore) ....when you are counting the days to get a drivers license - JUST for the sole purpose of going to the library whenever you want.

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LilacLex — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:53:10 -0800

So agree ^_^

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S. Kelly Wayne — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:51:55 -0800

Or you become a teacher because you really love books and school supplies!!!

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Cinderpaw — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:58:33 -0800

When you leap up in excitement every time your mom suggests you go to one of the four libraries you have cards at. When you bring a book with you everywhere, even when there is little chance you'll be waiting around anywhere. ((By the way, I like your avatar, LilacLex. :) ))

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thesignificanceofevidence — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:13:38 -0800

Been there done that, several times actually. I always cheated though and kept a book hidden under my pillow ;)

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The_Quillmaster — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:12:11 -0800

...when you die a little each time you ask somebody, "Have you read this book? It's soooo good!" and they respond, "I watched the movie and it was great!" ....when you absolutely cannot watch a movie of a book you read because they will RUIN it. Completely. And if you are forced into it by family members, you cannot resist going into a ten-minute rant about all the most wonderful things that they changed. ...when you seriously consider going into the film industry just to make CORRECT versions of your favorite books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SweetJuly — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:59:12 -0800

...you have a list of one of your MC's favorite books, because that's vital information.

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sayswho — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:16:53 -0800

...when you are interning(student teaching) at a school, and the teacher informs you the class is studying (insert random long poem/book here) and your response is, "Oh yea, that's on of my favorites!" :D

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Ell-chan — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:12:49 -0800

I only have at two but one of them is in my "town" here in sweden and the other one is in Hastings (a town outside London) XD I can't really go to the second one frequenty... XD

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dancer_kirsten — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:53:42 -0800

Oh my God, I absolutely NEED that T-shirt!

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SpiritofClyde — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:43:34 -0800

I enjoyed reading them. My family thought I was nuts

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SpiritofClyde — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:53:40 -0800

[quote=Peevish] ... when you hold your book carefully so the spine doesn't crack or the pages don't crease. ... when sometimes you're afraid of lending your books to people in fear of the books getting damaged. ... when you have to put a row of books in front of the first row of books on your bookshelf because you own too many books. ... when you run out of room on your bookshelf and start stacking books on tables and on the floor. [/quote] Yep!!! I am currently in that stage

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umbuby — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:54:15 -0800

Guilty of this...

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SpiritofClyde — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:26:21 -0800

A lot of these apply to me ...when you can't wait to get your hands on the old TV unit of your parents when your family moves because their TV is too big, but yours will fit...as will lots of books. I'm talking MEGA book space!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SpiritofClyde — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:48:23 -0800

....When you want a really specific edition of a book so it fits with the others that correspond with it.

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Jessi89 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:58:49 -0800

THIS! :D

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midnight_abyss92 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:53:29 -0800

I did something like that, too, now that I think about it.. Fourth grade, I think. Maybe third. I was reading before the bus came, and my mom wasn't home that morning like she usually was or she was doing something with my little sister (a toddler at the time), so my dad was in charge of taking me to the bus stop. Only since he never really did that before, he didn't know what time he was supposed to take us. Well, anyway, I was getting some reading done, then suddenly I look up at the clock to see how much time I had left before we had to leave, and the next thing I knew it, it was almost 7:30am, I had missed the bus, and school was going to start in about 15 minutes--it pretty much takes that amount of time to get to my old school since it was 2 towns away, and my dad sped me and my other little sister to school, and I think I just made it in time.

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Dripping_Melody — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:20:11 -0800

I can read Shakespeare... but I do need some translations and I don't know how often. XD I'm pathetic for a writer. I like to write, but I don't do a whole lot of reading unless it's a book i throughly enjoy.

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Dripping_Melody — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:25:02 -0800

I don't get it, how do you crack a book spine or not crack a book spine?

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

luvinpadfoot — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:07:19 -0800

-When your reading list is almost a thousand books long (989, to be exact) -When students in an AP English 12 class complain about an independent reading assignment and you're horrified -When you have to prove to your teacher that your book is, in fact, appropriate for said reading assignment (Dead Souls, Gogol) -When you're teacher once formed a book club for you because she thought you were antisocial because you read too much -When your geometry teacher hates you because you read while she's teaching and still answer all the questions right when she calls on you -When your English teacher routinely asks you for suggestions on good books to read -When you have in depth discussions on said books with your English teacher -When you scoff when someone says they've watched the movie of something you're reading -When you hit said person when they ruin the ending and refuse to speak to them ever again

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Kiwi977 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:39:55 -0800

You hold the book so that when you are reading the page you are reading is in front of you and the other one is at a less than 90 degree angle. Also do not set a book down flat on a table and leave it open. It's not hard to not crack the spine it just takes common sense and practice.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:34:35 -0800

If there was a Like-button on this place I would have to like all of these comments.... ... when you said that you wanted to watch Maos Last Dancer your parents borrow it for you and you're concerned because you meant AFTER you finished the book. ... And now you are in a dilemma since there is no way that you can finish the book before evening.

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mandiiminx — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:55:49 -0800

LOL I have done that. And to write. Thank God I'm not the only one :)

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mandiiminx — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:58:03 -0800

Lol I do that with books. My boyfriend does it with games; I get hypocritically annoyed.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

mandiiminx — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:01:24 -0800

[quote=Aiyandra] ... you study French because you want to read Les Miserables in the original version. [/quote] Almost; I took up Italian in year nine so I could read Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' in the original Italian lol ... This thread is making me admit so many embarrassing things.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

mandiiminx — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:29:21 -0800

Who says inexplicable as unexplainable o.o *Judges*

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:49:24 -0800

I checked that site and they have a tee that says "The voices told me to kill my MC" That happened to me today. I have a char that's got Schizofrenia and the voices told him to kill the MC.....

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:52:22 -0800

...someone starts to talk about semicolons and you just want to glomp them. (I never got the chance to glomp him... He was too quick...)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SpiritofClyde — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:45:00 -0800

-- Any book is fair game to read

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

RubyMarlin — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:31:48 -0800

You answer every single literary question at your regional knowledge bowl.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

-FantasyWriter- — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:14:32 -0800

...when you intentionally select historical fiction books to read that correspond with what you're studying in history, because it's so much easier to remember things if you read them in novels ...when everyone asks you for the answers in English class, because they know you've read the book before (That's the last time I ever open my big mouth...it took me way longer than it should have to finish my own packet on To Kill a Mockingbird, because I made the mistake of saying it was one of my favorite books and ended up helping everyone else in the room.) ...when you read most of an 800-page book over Thanksgiving break, and everyone in class who doesn't know you well is very surprised. (One kid accused me of doing nothing but reading over break, I said I did other stuff, he said, "But I bet you read more than an hour a day," and I said yes and just looked at him, because I really didn't consider that a lot of reading.)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Meli's Abstract Tree Theory — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:20:34 -0800

...you keep a pencil and a library card on a necklace and consider them more important than your house key on the same necklace. ...you're almost sure you remember the battle in the fantasy book you read over the summer better than the ones you're learning about in social studies.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:40:15 -0800

...History would have been so much easier to learn if it was in a novel... (Same with science... Why do they think I know how long it will take for a body to enter rigor mortis? NOT because I read it in my science-book!) -.-' ...You can't go to the library without returning with at LEAST one book...

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Christina Huling — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:24:45 -0800

-you "borrow" a copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream from your English teacher because the people in your class reading it out loud are mangling it. -no one asks you for book recommendations because they know you'll list at least ten books related to whatever they're looking for. -your English teacher takes your book away several times, no matter how much you insist you can read and listen at the same time.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Silver Fallen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:54:16 -0800

-When you meet somebody who doesn't like to read, you can figure out what kind of genre they would like and know exactly what book that makes them come back asking for more good books to read. (I have gotten so many "i hate reading" people addicted ;D just gotta know the right books for the right people).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:20 -0800

lol, I fit every one of those descriptions

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maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:15:34 -0800

Agree

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:16:23 -0800

I mean, agreeing with the needing more classics

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:21:43 -0800

Absolutely!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:29:13 -0800

I would love that addition on my house. Oh to have a proper library.... I keep a list of all the books i read in the year I sort my books into topics I can list fictional characters and what books they are from I am always waiting for new books

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:30:11 -0800

Oh I love it!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:36:58 -0800

same here

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:39:37 -0800

[quote=zitheeb] ...When you buy a typewriter simply because it's the same model used by a well-known and influential author. [/quote] I have the same model typewriter that Margaret Mitchell used to type Gone With The Wind. I almost had a heart attack when my mom gave that to me.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:01 -0800

Gone With The Wind for me :)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:42:13 -0800

Guilty of correcting how people speak and write

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:45:55 -0800

Lol, I always scrutinize a purse to determine if it is book carry accessible.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:46:38 -0800

Im not the only one to do that? phew!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:49:02 -0800

That's the average read????!!!! That must be a joke.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:50:08 -0800

60 in their lifetime??!! Im on my 75th or 76th for this year alone(and this was a slow year)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:51:29 -0800

That is my line! My mom got me a bag that has that saying on it. I love it.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

maggiep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:59:32 -0800

[quote=Kat_MacKenzie] *You're friends and co-workers are worried about you because you are upset about something that happened in your novel ("Well...YOU wrote it! Why are you upset? Just re-write it!") You get even more upset at that suggestion... [/quote] Agree! Sometimes things have to happen, wether I completely agree with it or not. I may be writing it, but it IS the characters' stories.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Maid Of Glass — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:49:56 -0800

I love this thread :') -when you go upstairs to your cousin's room to raid her bookshelf for the biggest book you can find, even if it has no pictures, and ask her to read you a story from it because you're 4 years old.......oh wait, my bad, that's my wee cousin who takes it from me :p he's so sweet.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

oyster2011 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:11:22 -0800

Oh, this thread explains my whole life! -when you chose the library over anything else and for Christmas and birthdays the number one thing on your wish list is books!!!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amarantawriter23 — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:44:55 -0800

[quote=CuriousReflection] ... When you were eight you learned to ride a bike while reading a book. ... When you were nine you learned to successfully make yourself lunch, holding a book in one hand, without once looking away from the pages. [/quote] I want to learn how to do both of those!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

thisdaydreamer — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:51:38 -0800

When you run out of room on your Kindle - less than a year after you buy it. Why can't they release one with more memory?! When you realize your to-be-read list is over three thousand books long, and you still buy more books. When the trailer for the latest movie "based on" the Three Musketeers is the funniest thing you have seen in weeks, and you still feel offended by it.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

-FantasyWriter- — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:32:17 -0800

You read 'Clockwork Prince' by Cassandra Clare and get all of Tessa and Will's literary references.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

-FantasyWriter- — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:44:02 -0800

[quote=luvinpadfoot] -When your geometry teacher hates you because you read while she's teaching and still answer all the questions right when she calls on you [/quote] Oh my gosh, YES. I sit right by her desk, too, so even though I do my best to put my textbook, binder, and whatever other books I'm carrying on my desk so she can't see me, I'm pretty sure she knows I do the first example problem with the her and the class, do the rest on my own because it's faster than copying it off the board, then just read the whole time. Then, when she asks the class for answers, a lot of the time I'll have the right one.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Red Queen — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:45:27 -0800

Holy crap, three thousand books? oO Are there even that many books that are worth reading?^^ j/k, but really, if I spend time on my tbr list, I have no time to look for more.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Septimus Pfluger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:09:06 -0800

... When you yawn instead of groan when the English teacher suggests we all write long and lovely research papers on realistic novels. ... When you've decided that there's just not enough fanstasy in the realism category, and are planning to make something to fill that hole.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lisa.Vail — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:57:23 -0800

...Your parents buy you a Kindle so you'll stop breaking all the drawers in the house by overloading them with books. ...You still buy them, seeing Kindle as a bonus. ...You have an e-reader for a week and have already lost count of your downloads. ...You dread moving house since you'll need a moving van just for the books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amarantawriter23 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:11:19 -0800

...When you're reading "Nevermore" by Kelly Creagh and, while their mentioning some of Poe's works you literally go through the list and say, "Read it. Read it. Read it. Going to read it later--actually, I can read it now." Then you grab your English textbook, open to the only story mentioned that you have yet to read, and begin reading.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:25:17 -0800

Only one of them. I know two of them, but only one of them by name and vice versa. But I get excited every time I go to the library and he's checking things out because I get to talk to him.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:39:56 -0800

I totally do that with purses. My friend looked at my newest purse and said it was too big. I was like "But I can fit a notebook and four books in it without it even filling up!"

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:41:29 -0800

Nope. I used to do this before I discovered fanfiction. Then I went through a brief but terrible Mary Sue phase, which was replaced by better fanfiction. Now I just insert my characters into the story in my head and see how they react.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:46:16 -0800

This. So much this. I don't care if it's pretty, or trendy, or made of freaking diamonds. Just give me the book. (Actually, if it's made of diamonds I'll take it and sell it for book money.)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:48:15 -0800

Forget eye contact--I'm actually Facebook friends with almost all my English teachers from middle and high school.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:50:02 -0800

...your bag/purse/backpack/whatever is so full of books if anyone else picks it up they groan and say it's heavy, but you think it's feather-light.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:51:49 -0800

[quote=1-plus-i] ...you need to bring a book when you go there. No matter where 'there' is. [/quote] Even if "there" is church. Where you are driving to and then immediately home from, so you will have absolutely no time for reading.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:56:21 -0800

I have one. Actually it's two shelves on the shelving unit in my closet because I couldn't fit the books I'd borrowed from people I knew on the shelf with the books I'd borrowed from the library.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:58:01 -0800

Or when you start writing, you automatically use the same style and tone as the book you're reading.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:04:45 -0800

See, despite Twilight AND Mortal Instruments having Isabella and Isabelle, respectively, and those characters being horrendous people... I'm still naming my daughter Isabelle because it's a beautiful name and my daughter is going to reclaim it for strong, good women.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:05:23 -0800

Unless the whole sentence is inside parentheses. Then the period goes inside the parentheses too. This bothers me so much.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:25:18 -0800

It also takes reading fairly quickly. I read slowly enough that if I don't make an effort to bend the covers instead of cracking the spine, which makes reading somewhat awkward, the spine cracks on its own.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:27:11 -0800

We had to read a book over winter break to stay in practice or something, and I got my teacher to approve me reading a draft of my old teacher and friend's novel. It was awesome.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:29:25 -0800

And I bet that kid plays video games or goes on Facebook or something else pointless and mind-numbing more than an hour a day. Why is it so weird that we do something somewhat productive with our time?

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Magpie Ilya — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:26:24 -0800

Ten minutes? Much, much too short!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:30:08 -0800

I didn't shut up for probably half an hour after seeing the adaptation of The Lightning Thief. Then I saw Iron Man 2 with someone who did the same thing and I was going "I don't care about the comics, okay? I watch the movies, and the movies don't pretend to be a totally faithful adaptation," realized what was happening, and asked my mom "Is that what I did?" She said yes. Whoops. 9_9 But as far as I can tell, Lightning Thief was WAY worse than Iron Man 2.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ShidaHa — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:34:32 -0800

Ugh, my sister always leaves her books open, face down, because she's too lazy to go get some scrap paper for a bookmark. (I use playing cards myself. Keep a stack on my headboard and I'm good for a year.) She'll just leave them for hours, even days, and if she leaves it too long, stuff gets piled on top. I've stopped letting her borrow my books; if she wants to read it, we have a perfectly good library just a few minutes away.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Lizardhound — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:39:31 -0800

[quote=Behind Imagination] haven't people heard of book-marks? I have no idea about how many times I have closed a family members book because they "didn't bother") or make a donkeyear (don't know if it's the right word. My dictionary didn't have it :/) [/quote] Yes. I totally understand. And since I keep losing my bookmarks, I make donkeyears. Poor books. My reading speed is well above 300 words/minute, I'm fifteen and English isn't my mother tongue. I read "Reaper Man" in fourth grade, when I was nine or ten years old. Four hundred-or-so pages of Pratchett and I was hooked. Read Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" for fun when I was fourteen and re-read it twice last year. Did the same with LotR in English and Silmarillion. I've read about half of the Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist, most of Pratchett's books, and countless other singles and series. Currently working my way through the Change-series and saving money so I can buy the rest of the Rain Wilds-series and the Malazan books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Jenna Christine — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:58:04 -0800

...Your local library watches what you ask for in Inter-library loans, or just asks you, about the books that they should add to their shelves.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:04:54 -0800

I'm 16 and my reading speed is somewhere between 450-500 wpm... I curse when I see donkeyears in library books... I also once found a book where several pages had been pretty much glued together with some kind of drink.... That didn't make me very happy...

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:29:56 -0800

I feel like I should give you a list of books my mom has checked out so you can avoid them. Yes, she dogears library books. It's horrible. I dogear my own books, but she dogears books that aren't even hers WHYYYYYYYYY???

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:31:39 -0800

...your for-fun reading list includes books in which "gay" means "happy" and "queer" means "strange." ...you are utterly baffled as to why Oscar Wilde being a writer would be a trivia question. (Not even joking. This was an actual trivia question in the game at the restaurant we went to tonight.) ...an eReader is actually a good deal.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:05:46 -0800

I asked my english teacher if she read classics and she said she did (Most english teachers here aren't half as interested in literature as I want them to....) :P It's called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp (Only the first movie though) :D

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Jenna B. Edwards — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:19:52 -0800

Totally! In English, we read Julius out loud in class and my teacher wouldn't let me bring my own copy because it wasn't in "Modern English". I was slightly offended. I had to use a battered copy of the translation because I spent so long trying to explain to her why I kept The Complete Works of Shakespeare vols. 1 and 2 with me at all times.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

harrypoter4ever — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:03:24 -0800

Guilty....

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

harrypoter4ever — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:58:06 -0800

I'm not alone!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Mikiki — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:24:08 -0800

. . . You have a hoard of book store gift cards stashed in your room. . . . You are utterly depressed because you've read all the good best sellers and can't find another decent book to read. . . . You're done reading the chapter of a book after your friend is just finishing the second paragraph. . . . You actually have to focus on reading slowly because you don't want to finish the book. . . . Your friend asks you to read their four-paged story for them, and you find yourself pointing at a million words saying, "This is spelled wrong", "You forgot an 'e'", "You need a comma there", "Capital letter after the periods" and "Why on earth do they live happily ever after?" . . . You find yourself laughing out loud in the middle of a library because the main character in your book said something funny. . . . Instead of a pony you want a Kindle.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:41:24 -0800

Alternatively, you don't have any bookstore gift cards because you spend them as soon as you get them.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SpiritofClyde — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:21:47 -0800

...You want a Kindle but still want more books (I'm only going to use mine for stuff I can't get in print) cause it's just not the same having half a series in print and half on Kindle (and, not all books are available in e-books anyway!)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

harrypoter4ever — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:17:56 -0800

When you want a kindle, eReader, Nook, and more books. When someone asks you to proofread their essay and you agree. But three minutes later you hand it back saying: "You edit it. It doesn't have paragraphs, it's a wall. It has a million and one spelling errors and eight trillion and two punctuation errors. I'm not going to read it until you fix it." When you get straight A's in Reading and English(not to mention every other class that you get straight A's in). When you get so frustrated that your parents won't take you to buy new books when you REALLY need them(such as now). When you can understand Shakespear and don't understand why others don't.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:41:22 -0800

Wait. Aren't you in middle school? Who in middle school doesn't know how to use paragraphs??? *weeps for the education system*

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

CaveatLector — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:08:40 -0800

That first point is particularly annoying to people around me whenever I re-read A Clockwork Orange...

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Zozz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:17:23 -0800

When your teacher says that we will read four novels before the summer you cheer as the other people in your class groan. When you refuse to join the e-reader/Kindle vs printed book war because you honestly don't care about how people read, only that they do read.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Cinderpaw — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:36:58 -0800

[quote=harrypoter4ever] When someone asks you to proofread their essay and you agree. But three minutes later you hand it back saying: "You edit it. It doesn't have paragraphs, it's a wall. It has a million and one spelling errors and eight trillion and two punctuation errors. I'm not going to read it until you fix it." [/quote] THANK YOU! I get on to read online fiction (especially fanfiction) and I'm like "Dude. Paragraphs. Punctuation. Spelling. Now." Granted, some people have the excuse of trying to download their fiction using their phone, but it wouldn't kill them to wait until they got to an actual computer.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:07:51 -0800

There was one fanfic that was so bad grammatically I said I would be a gamma, but they had to get someone else to be a beta. Once it wasn't a giant ungrammatical wall of text I would work with it.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

DragonYoga — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:19:41 -0800

paperbackswap.com "buy" a book on credit, swap books this way. Send via post office, it's cheap and pays for itself over time. :)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Cinderpaw — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:21:30 -0800

Book club and poetry club sound cool! What's quiz bowl though? I've never heard of it.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

firelight_cinderbrick — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:57:51 -0800

This. I've always hated the Kindle/e-reader book war.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

firelight_cinderbrick — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:03:26 -0800

...when you accidentally fold a page on the book your reading and feel like you've broke it. ...similarly when you accidentally fold or damage the cover of a book you feel like it's unfixable and will remain like that forever(because it's true)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:10:39 -0800

I feel like that now, although, for fun, I started reading Dante's Divine Comedy right after I finished reading the Twilight Saga for the first time (I loved both, how's that for weird?). I just think I should be reading more books but I never can find ones that seem to really sing to me, that's why most of my reading lately has either been out of my favorites (Tolkien and Rowling mainly) or writing reference books. It makes me feel sad at times.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:11:27 -0800

The loving books is why I became a teacher (still haven't landed my first teaching job yet though).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:13:14 -0800

That's why I haven't read much new material in the way of fiction in a while because to me everything looks cliched. That's what's kicking me in the butt to write my own stories; that old adage that says "if you don't see a book you want to read, write it."

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:20:46 -0800

That's why I'm really wanting to get a Kindle, but not having Harry Potter available for it is the only thing holding me back. I'll end up getting one eventually though..

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:52:17 -0800

Happens to me all the time, writing with Tolkienesque discription in a book meant for teenagers. Hey, I was reading Tolkien at fourteen, why not? (Of course, that's when I pick up either Harry Potter or Eclipse/Breaking Dawn to try to cut back my language a bit for more mellow and easier to read parts of my book).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:58:24 -0800

ADHD for reading nerds. One book reminds you of what's going on in another book and you just have to go and find out.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:19:41 -0800

... You actually know exactly which one Sonnet 130 is. ... you want to slap the goober sitting next to you when they stare blankly at the page when they read Sonnet 130 and can't understand how freaking funny it really is.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:26:47 -0800

My mentor teacher and I went on for quite a bit about on several books like that. I wish I would have let loose more in my teaching style, but I kind of froze and fell on my face, which is what usually happens the first time I try anything new. Oh well, my future students are the ones that will benefit.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:35:53 -0800

Because history books never really touch on the battles or put them into any real sort of context, content merely on throwing their mention in the text for only the most basic requisite that they happened. Fantasy book battles, and any event put correctly into the context of history, bring the story of those events to life but putting them in the correct context.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ariellalphabet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:35:34 -0800

... When you're the only person in a class of twelve who knows who H. P Lovecraft is, and by extension, Cthulu. ... When you buy older books because they look prettier. Not kidding- I have a 1920's version of Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... You watch a film based on a book, then hunt the book out and realise how much better the book is. ... You read the book first and don't bother at all with the film, knowing all too well it'll have been ruined.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

ariellalphabet — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:39:29 -0800

... Your friends refer to you as a walking dictionary. I taught my friend to spell 'appreciate' the other day, and now he's eternally grateful. ... There are books in every room of the house, including the bathroom.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:49:24 -0800

... You're the only one in a class of 24 (high school level) that have read Sherlock Holmes. ... You stare at your friend for an hour for her not knowing who Arthur Conan Doyle was. (I laughed at her at first but then I realized she was serious....)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Itzika — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:40:44 -0800

...when you clean your room, the first thing you do is organize your bookshelves (alphabetically by author last name).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

LilacLex — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:14:36 -0800

....when you dream about visiting the library and curse at being too young to have a driver license so you can't go yourself. ....(related to the above) and when you consider getting a job just to fund trips to Barnes and Noble.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

LilacLex — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:19:52 -0800

....Oh; and when you chastise your friend for not having finished the novel Little Dorrit (by Charles Dickens) so that you can read it next (it's a whole thing).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Ell-chan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:33:02 -0700

...you correct the grammatical errors your English teacher makes (or Swedish teacher in my case). And she's the one to complain about us not using grammar right.... Right back at you, right back at you.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Bree L. — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:20:56 -0700

I am everything in this thread - My biggest pet hate is when people skip to the end of a book, it's just so insulting *rolls eyes*

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Cinderpaw — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:31:51 -0700

You never read the last chapter of a book because you don't want it to end.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Amarantawriter23 — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:38:22 -0700

When your most prized possessions are now two signed novels by Laurie Halse Anderson, and some of your favorite moments were when you got to have a press conference with her and then talk to her while she was signing your books...Best. English. Festival. Ever.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SeahorsePond — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:26:29 -0700

I've been asked that!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

GotReins — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:01:41 -0700

When, instead of conversing with family Easter weekend, you sit in a stuffy attic with your pajamas still on and pore over the 1953 edition of "Literary History of the United States" so you can learn about the writing styles of the Puritans. Ahem.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

schermangirl — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:01:36 -0700

I always ask my friends about the oxford comma. When my science teacher makes power points she leaves out the oxford comma, and she also knows that when I take notes I add it in.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Vinxman — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:34:57 -0700

You dress in period costumes for films such as Sherlock Holmes or The Raven (and you're in your 50s).

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Brickthe1st — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:05:31 -0700

When you get a copy of a book you have been looking for and tell people about it for days. Especially strangers who couldn't care less. And multiple times.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Brickthe1st — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:06:06 -0700

Been there, done that.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

Kjesta — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:43:31 -0700

... when you discover that there's a series of murder mysteries where Oscar Wilde (!!!!!!!) goes off with Arthur Conan Doyle (!!!!!!) to solve crime and it's like your entire world has been shaken and you sway messily between "my life is complete once I've read those" and "why couldn't *I* do that and earn millions with it?"

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

MrDithers — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:48:13 -0700

Share, please?

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

elvendork — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:20:29 -0700

What are these books and why have I never heard of them before? I'm with MrDithers, please share!

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

LibraryBelle — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:44:05 -0700

Instead of chucking it out with all the books you don't want when you properly finish (graduate from? lol, different educations systems) school, you keep your poetry anthology that you were given for English because it has awesome poems in it. When you get told off in English classes because you "read ahead". Apparently it's a problem because simply saying "read to page 30 by next lesson" just DOES NOT COMPUTE in my head. The book in question was only a couple of hundred pages anyway - absolutely nothing. When detention at school is to stay behind for an hour and read a book, and you don't see that as being a punishment, or a deterrent from getting more detentions. I don't even get an hour of uninterrupted reading time at HOME, this is supposed to be a detention? Pfft. When your friend comes over, comes into your room, and says, "Whoa, you've got a lot of books." While my brother's dream "if I had Bill Gates' money" house involves a trampoline room (which, admittedly, does sound fun), my dream house has a library. Similarly, on holiday in the north of England, and on several visits to Alnwick Castle (and gardens). My thoughts are not, "ooh, it'd be nice to live in a castle", or even, "hasn't Sarah Ferguson done a fabulous job with the gardens?" but, "I WANT THAT LIBRARY!" Your favourite Disney princess is Belle, because she reads, and Beast gives her a whole library to herself! XD When you work in a secondary school, and despair at the fact that the students don't respect the library. My colleague, an English teacher, doesn't see the big deal. WHAT THE... :O When you get annoyed that people don't think a librarian is a hard job. "I mean, you just put books away, right?" (I'm not even a librarian, although I want to be, and it REALLY bugs me.) :@ When you congratulate your friend on reading a book from cover to cover for the first time in years. I don't even care that his choice was some entrepreneurial bestseller on how to make a load of money. He still read a book! :D When you seriously cannot imagine a life without reading, or books.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

-FantasyWriter- — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45:40 -0700

When you don't even like the book you're reading in English, and you take more notes and have more ideas for your paper on it than any other student in the class. When you know that the Oxford comma is called the Oxford comma, and your english teacher doesn't. When you and a fellow grammar nazi go around correcting the grammar of all the anti-alcohol and anti-tobacco signs hanging around the school. When you measure time by whether the library is open or not.

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

LibraryMouse233 — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:51:17 -0700

"You dress in period costumes for films such as Sherlock Holmes or The Raven (and you're in your 50s). " Vinxman, I am so happy I am not the only one who does this. :)

Re: You know you're a literary nerd when...

SpiritofClyde — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:10:09 -0700

When you have two uni books, a Kindle book and another book -the latter two for pleasure - all with bookmarks in them and you don't get them confused.