YA Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction discussion

OMG just found this on The Story Siren's website! So funny!

#1 You buy your purses based on how many books you can fit inside.
#2 The Fed Ex and UPS carriers, know you by name.
#3 Your family refuses to buy you books because they don't want to support your habit.
#4 You own multiple versions of the same book.
#5 You dream about books. (Getting them... meeting the authors that write them.)
#6 You always have at least one book on you at all times. Even if it's just a quick trip to the dollar store.
#7 You usually help shoppers at the bookstore, because you are more knowledgeable than the staff.
#8 You've been known to skip family functions or outings with friends because you can't stop reading.
#9 There are books in every room of your house.
#10 If you are within five miles of a bookstore, you find yourself drawn to it like a homing device from the mothership.

Hmm...let's see, I am 1,3,4,5,6,8,and 10.

What about you guys? Are you book addicts?

I'm definately a book addict! I have a Nook now, but I still love the smell and feel of my books and how they look in my bookshelves. And the purse thing...I usually just take a suitcase of them wherever I go. Lol.

I'm the same way! I just got a Nook for Christmas and I love it...but I love my hard copies too! A suitcase? Girl, you're worse than me! :)

Lol. It's usually just when we stay gone for a week or more, but I feel so bad just leaving them behind...plus I never know which one I'll want to re-read. Haha.

I definitely know how you feel! I go through separation anxiety! That's why I'm glad I have a Nook now, I can buy what i want whenever I want!

Okay, lets see...
I definitely used to be a #1, but I got a Nook for christmas, so only sometimes am I a #1 if a book I HAVE TO READ isn't available on my Nook.

Not really a #3, but my dad thinks I read too much. My mom is a huge supporter of my habit, but everyone else just complains.

#5 Definitely, but not so much meeting the authors as dreaming about the stories themselves, like my dreams are my own private unconcious movie screen.

Most Certainly am a #6- I go through withdrawls if I am without a book.

A total #8, my be with my dysfunctional family when I can escape into another world!

Definitely a #9, and a #10, but since I live close to 30 miles from the closest book store, internet is a must since I can use my wifi to download books!!

30 miles away?! Oi! I would die! I go to Barnes and Noble at least a couple times a week!

I wish I lived closer to town. I hate living in the country, but for now its home. But thankfully I get B&N online! Otherwise I'd go crazy!

You've read 18 books already this year and it's only 22 days in....(guilty)

Holy cow! Man Amber you need some kind of award!

I'm totally guilty of #8. I hate to stop reading to do stuff. Lol. Having the nook and reading books on my Iphone has been my downfall. I have two seasons worth of shows on my DVR. Lol

Hi, my name is Katie and I am a book addict! I have to say that my Kindle has only made it worse. It's just too easy when I am all snug and I finish a book to just download another and not even have to make myself presentable to go out in public!!

That's totally how I feel! I would be so rich if I didn't read haha :)

1,4,5,6,7,9,10 LOL, it's confirmed I'm a bookaholic. ;-) No 3 and 8 as I have no family, but it could well be true :)
I so much hate moving home because of those heavy banana boxes full of books. And now should really buy more bookshelves... do I really need all these books? :D

Have you read The Uncommon Reader? It's a lovely and funny little book about the queen who in her seventies enters a mobile library near the palace by chance and gets on reading. I just read it in December and am sure it warms all book addicts' heart. :)

i'm a book addict and i'm totally not ashamed to admit it. :) only two (#2 and #7) on this list don't apply to me. i'd say that's sad, but i'm too proud of my book collection/addiction to really feel that way. =)

I guess this can also be our book addicts anonymous thread too haha. But we can't really help each other since we're totally all addicted. Hmm...never mind! Book addiction is okay!

@Zerge: I haven't read The Uncommon Reader. But it sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out! :)

You're a book addict if you ask for a B&N gift card for your Birthday, and I am completely and entirely guilty of this one!

I am also guilty of that. I ask for B&N gift cards for every holiday. I totally admit my addiction!

Since I recieved my Nook, I will de asking for gift cards from now on---for sure! =)

Getting books or book related stuff for gifts is an old time tradition for me. I remember when I was in the 5th grade I recieved a box full of RL Stine books from my grandfater for my birthday.

Well I have a kindle and my husband wanted to take me out to dinner. We were waiting on our food and he was talking to someone else so I got out my kindle and finished the book I was reading while I ate my food....lol

I'm all but #2 on the list but I guess read while on a date would probably take it's place...lol

Wow...props to you Kristy haha :)

I think I'm #s 5,7,8,10. I guess I could be much worse. I would classify myself more as a reading addict, rather than a book addict. If I could afford it...I would probably own way more literature. For the most part I just can't stop reading.

I'm an addict! :) 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 all describe me. I actually made my basement into a library that currently contains about 700 books - I just can't seem to stop! :)

#s 3,6,7,8,9,10 could all be used to describe me from time to time!!

I guess we're all addicts haha. And not afraid to admit it!!

.....if you mentally edit mistakes in grammar in the books you read.

.....if the cashiers at Half-Priced books know you by name.

.....or, if you ever dated a cashier at H.P.B. in the hopes of getting a discount.

.....if you re-arrange the bookshelves at you friends' apartment by putting books in you think they should read, so you won't have to hear them talk about James Patterson EVER AGAIN ;)

HHAAAAAHAAAAA! Larry, my man! You're too funny!! Did you really date someone at HPB hoping to get a discount??

I'm not sure if I'm a book addict or not, perhaps I'm in denial? Aha, for sure I always ask for Chapters (we don't have a B&N in Canada xD) cards for Christmas and Bdays and all. I carry books around with me almost everywhere and my teachers do not support my habit only when I read in class. I think I have my addiction under control x)

Ahahahahaha! Larry! Hahaha WTH? Hahahaha

And yes... my family doesn't buy me books to "support my habit." My excuse is that reading helps your education... I got a nook(color) for my birthday so that rules out lots of those #s for me. My mom will take my book away and she'll turn away and look back to find out I've already picked another book out of my bag....

My obsession with books increased about 100% once I got my Kindle. I don't have books all over my house because of my Kindle, but almost all the others apply to me. I love the feel of books, but I love being able to carry my entire library with me, in my small purse. My family knows that if a holiday goes by and I don't get an Amazon gift card, I might get grumpy for a few days (I rely on holiday's to support my habit).

My contribution to that list is

when your husband starts referring to himself as a Kindle Widow to other people and you just smile and nod and then go back to reading.

Wow, your husband is a Kindle Widower? :)

A kindle widow? hahahahahaha!

omgsh, that's funny xD

Yeah, he actually heard it from a friend at work. It made me laugh the first time I heard it.

Why Bethany, a gentleman does not kiss and tell!

Especially when he's also romantically linked to a fair maiden of the Noble house of Barnes.

Larry wrote: "Why Bethany, a gentleman does not kiss and tell!

Especially when he's also romantically linked to a fair maiden of the Noble house of Barnes."

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG WHERE DO YOU GET THIS??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:D well, no matter. None of us (your fellow addicts) would protest anyway. This isn't AA...we fully support your habit!!

AA? Alcoholics Anonymous? aha...

all 10 except I have to amend point 3... my family don't buy me books because I have so many, 2,500 treebooks and now over 800 on my Kindle. The only way I can get book is to give my family a list of what I'd like and they will choose a couple , that way I can get a lovely surprise on Birthday's/Xmas

You know you're a book addict when...you keep buying them even though there is NO more space and you refuse to throw any out

Guilty as charged :D