Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is :

Ten Signs You’re a Book Lover

1. You pretend you haven’t seen people who you know so that you don’t have to stop reading and make polite conversation – or is this only me??  Please say it isn’t so.

2. You know your librarian so well that she’s actually your best friend (maybe even your only friend – see No.1).  P.S. You know it’s really bad if she was also your bridesmaid!

3. You smuggle books into the house – I used to do this, like a secret shopper, pretending I wasn’t continually buying yet more books, even though I had SO many already to read – this isn’t so much a problem now I have kindle and ‘one click’.  Yay.

4. Your books actually are part of the furniture.  They’re stacked like bedside cabinets and table legs and hold lamps and, yes, yet even more books.  Word to the wise, never, I say never, attempt to pull out one of those books from the middle or bottom of the stack.  It just doesn’t work.  Trust me on this.

5. You know the names of so many authors but forget the names of colleagues or people you’ve only just met – and you always say you’re bad at remembering names just to cover it up.  Yes, I do remember the names of my children.

6. You can’t help feeling really disappointed if people don’t buy you gift vouchers.  Come on people.  It’s so easy to give me a gift voucher.  Just DO IT.  I will not be let down. It’s an absolute no-brainer.

7.  You practically scramble, pushing people over in your haste, if you see a box of books on sale at a charity shop or jumble sale – let’s be honest though, what are the chances that you’re going to love the books inside!  It could happen though.  One day.  You just have to keep on checking, and then checking some more.  Never say never.  Never. Just don’t.

8. Book presents just make you happy, even if somebody buys you a book, and you already own that book, and have already read it a couple of times, a nicely wrapped, book shaped package is always a joy to behold.

9. You feel secretly irritated if you go for a night out and you’re not enjoying it – when you could be at home finishing a good book.  You know you do.  I know I’m not the only one.

10. You were so involved in your latest read that you totally missed your bus/train/tram stop – and everyone on there knows you just did so, but you have to calmly put your book down, maybe even letting a few stops whiz by, whilst you stride for ‘coolness’ in an attempt to make it all look deliberate.  Or you could madly scramble for the exit.  Both work equally well.

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