Read my thoughts: Leave me alone

Read my thoughts: Leave me alone

June 17, 2010, 11:38 am
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I have always been an avid reader.  I devour books like Kirsti Alley eats cupcakes.  I constantly have a stack on my nightstand and my reading list gets appended every month when my Bookmarks magazine comes in.  I have the Kindle app on my iPhone and wouldn’t buy a house unless it had a place for my “library.”

Aahh... books.

I know I have a lot of rules – I am a very list-centric, organized person (in my mind, at least).  So, with an obsession as major as reading is to me, I have another corresponding set of rules of appropriate book/reading conduct.

1. Don’t talk to me while I’m reading.
2. Don’t ask me what I’m reading. (I’m not reading anything, because you have very rudely interrupted me and now I have to deal with you.)
3. Don’t ask me if I’ve gotten to the part where BLAH BLAH BLAH happens. (No, actually, I haven’t and now you’ve just ruined it for me.
4. Don’t tell me it was a great book – especially the “twist.” (Now that I know there is a twist, it won’t be as good or as shocking because I know to expect it.)
5. Don’t borrow any of my books without asking. (Somehow you managed to select the one book I haven’t read yet that is next on my list.)
6. Don’t forget to return the books you have borrowed.  (I don’t care if it takes you three years to read it and there are chocolate fingerprints on every other page – I want it back.)
7. Don’t tell me the movie is not as good as the book. (It never is, so why do you keep hoping?.)
8. Don’t write in books you borrow from the library.
9. Don’t pick your nose while reading a book you borrowed from the library. (A – that’s gross; and B – I don’t want to have to flake it off with a knife because your lugey is blocking an important passage.)
10. Don’t move my book without marking my place first.  (This is grounds for the SL! and you don’t want to be on my SL, trust.)

What I’m reading next (so you don’t have to ask).

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