All-Nighters, Book Towers & Kindles: You Know You’re A Bookworm When…

Do you quiver with excitement at the thoughts of buying a new book? Do you usually have three or four novels on the go at exactly the same time? Have you mastered the art of crossing a particularly dangerous road while reading the latest bestseller?

If you answered yes to any or all of the above questions then it’s official: you’re a bookworm. If you’re still unsure as to how valid your ‘bookworm’ status actually is then here are a few other signs that you’re unhealthily obsessed with the written word.

Read them, then get back to that novel you’re currently working your way through...

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You Know You’re A Bookworm When...

Do you find it hard to resist buying a book every time you leave the house?

1. You hate it when people sit beside you on public transport: You hate it even more when they try to strike up a conversation with you. Can’t they see that you’re reading? Some people are so inconsiderate!

2. There is at least one tower of books by your bed: It started off innocently enough – you might have had one or two books on your bedside table. Now, however, your ‘to-read’ pile resembles the leaning tower of Pisa and you’re currently building the foundations of another tower on the opposite side of the bed.

3. You have multiple copies of the same book: A new hardback version, a new cover, a leather-bound edition – you have them ALL.

4. You have, at some point in time, ditched society so you could finish a really good book: You literally turned off your mobile phone, disconnected from social media and holed yourself up in your room for three days so you could finish a book. Your friends were surprised when you suddenly reappeared in society (mainly because they thought you had emigrated and/or died).

Do you sometimes think that characters are real people?

5. Likewise, you have stayed up all night just to finish a really awesome book: It didn’t matter that you had work the next day or an exam at college, it was totally worth it.

6. You have a GoodReads.com account: You love becoming friends with people who have the same taste in books as you and you update your progress with certain books religiously on the site.

7. You have a Kindle but you still buy books: Despite the fact that you can download any book you want in an instant, you still revert to the old-fashioned method of buying (and reading) actual hard-copy books.

8. You cry when characters die: To you they’re not just made-up people, they’re friends damn it!