If you clicked on this article, you already know you're a book nerd. Need assurance? If you fall into any or most of these descriptions, there you have it.
1. While you love the wide array of books at Barnes and Noble, you're a sucker for hole-in-the wall used bookstores and libraries.
2. You love the crinkling sound the plastic wrap on library books makes.
3. You've taken out a library book.
4. The first thing you do (before and after purchase) with a new book is smell it. Sure, it may have a compelling storyline, but the chances of you buying it are higher if it smells like fresh parchment.
5. You don't understand James Joyce's Ulysses...
6. ... but you pretend to because it makes you sound smarter.
7. You've read James Joyce's Ulysses.
8. You've had a "moment" with a stranger in a bookstore (for me personally, this involved Jack Kerouac's On the Road... because who doesn't love Kerouac and The Beat Generation?).
9. Even if you're not a chick, you still dabble in the classic female authors like Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters. Okay, maybe not, but someday this WILL happen.
10. When a movie based on a book comes out, chances are high that A. You've read it and B. The book is significantly better than the movie.
11. No matter where you are or what you're there for, if you walk by a bookstore, you have to go in.
12. You walk into a library or bookstore and get excited by the smell.
13. You refuse to buy a Kindle because those things are just a sad excuse for non-book lovers to pretend to be book lovers, when true book lovers like the feeling of a book in their hands.
14. You relish in the sound of pages turning.
15. You fall into one of two categories: Category A: the avid reader, who marks his/her favorite passages with highlighter or underlining and dog ears the pages; or Category B: the crazy, OCD book person who wants people to borrow his/her books (which look like they've just been purchased) but lives in constant fear that this favorite book won't be returned in proper form.
16. You still like being read to.
17. Growing up, The Outsiders was the first book you really related to.
18. You hate to admit you love Harry Potter, but I maintain that if you don't love this series, you don't support children's literature.
19. As a kid, if you got sent to your room as punishment, you snickered to yourself because that meant an opportunity to be alone, in peace, with a book in your hands and a smile on your face.
20. Books over flowers, books over video games, books over everything.
21. Have I mentioned that you probably love to write? In Moleskins?
22. You buy books faster than you can read them and wind up with a shelf of soon-to-be-read books.
23. Great Gatsby themed parties irritate you because they completely miss the point of the novella.
24. Looking at symbols has made you paranoid when watching TV shows because you're constantly wondering where the symbols are and what they mean.
25. Nothing is worse than reading a classic novel and being extremely disappointed.
26. You're extremely particular about the organization of your books. Some people organize by group (ex. Russians, Beats, Feminists, Poets), others organize alphabetically. But touch that organization and you will lose a hand.
27. Speaking of the Russians, you keep telling yourself that you'll read War and Peace but you just can't get into it (and if you can, bless your soul).
28. Balancing books and Netflix has taken its toll on you. Your Netflix-addicted friends don't understand how you're not through season 10 of that one show yet, and your book nerd friends don't understand why it's taken you so long to finish their latest recommendation. There's only so much time in the day!
29. There are two types of people in this world: those who can read books while on vehicles, and those who can't. If you can, a five hour car, plane, or train ride is a luxurious vacation before the vacation. If you can't? Five hours of hell. And disdain towards your friend sitting next to you who can.
30. Rory Gilmore saw into your soul when she said in her valedictorian speech, "I live in two worlds. One is a world of books."
31. You always have and always will see the characters from your favorite novel as your friends, the people who understand you the most. Yes, this means that at some point in time, as much as you don't want to admit it, you cried when a character died. You felt their heartbreaks for them, and you turned page after page, waiting for their successes...
32. Which is why there's nothing more rewarding than coming home after a long, hard day, and curling up in bed or on the sofa with a fresh book and a tea or coffee in hand.
33. Please. Go do that ^^^. You know you want to after reading this.
