There are so many things books can do. There are so many things books can say. Books and authors can take you to places you've never been to before and expand your worldview in ways you didn't know possible. You might be a book lover if you do some, or all, of these things.
1. You’d rather spend all your time with a book than with people.
2. An ideal afternoon is getting coffee and book browsing until you feel like stopping, which is never.
3. You know the libraries book borrowing system better than the librarians.
4. You stay up all night to finish a book you just bought that day.
5. The perfect weekend is spent curled up somewhere with a cup of tea and reading until you can’t read any more.
6. You can’t wait for fall, when it gets cold enough to acceptably stay inside and read all day.
7. You get really excited about a new book by one of your favorite authors and talk about it with everyone.8. You get angry when a character didn't do what you wanted them to do.
9. You get to the end of the book and don’t know what to do with your life.10. Your ideal job in high school was to work in the library.
11. You've waited in line for hours to be one of the first to buy a book. And then you spent all night reading it. (Ahem. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows").
12. You always carry a book with you. No matter what. You never know when you might need it.
13. You are familiar with the feeling of emptiness when you finish a book you really loved.
14. The smell of a bookstore is one of your favorite smells in the entire world.
15. You can’t wait to reread the book over and over again for as long as you both shall live.
16. You love the smell of new books in the morning. And all the time.17. You know the feeling of despair when you finish a book series and know in your heart this is the end.
18. You often carry more than one book with you at a time. You never know what your mood will be in that moment.
19. You long for the day when you have your own home so you can set up a library full of your books any way you want it. That’s the way you need it. Anyway, you want it.
20. You love books because they inspire you to be someone better, and allow you to dream.
21. You love books because they gave you the desire to inspire others the way they, through those who wrote them, inspire you.
