19 Times Tumblr Understood Just How Stressful A Booklover’s Life Is

As my friends know, if you can’t find me in our designated meeting spot, there is a 99.9% certainty that I can be found – lost but happy – in the nearby bookstore. This is a source of many problems. Tumblr gets why.

 

• Bookstore visits are magical adventures.

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• Such magic costs money: your bank account is denuded by their spell every single time.

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• That magic does not stretch to beyond the store.

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• But that bookstore magic always tantalizes in the most cruelly expert of ways.

• This is how booklovers come to have favorite authors.

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• And this is why we have a love-hate relationship with those authors.

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• Books literally take you on an emotional rollercoaster.

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• Sometimes, admittedly, that rollercoaster is too much…

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• …which leaves us emotionally exhausted wrecks.

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• To read a book is to live another life: our own must necessarily suffer.

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• Because we choose to be with books more often than people.

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• Don’t mention the logistics of packing for vacation.

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• Don’t mention the books that disappoint us.

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• Because we’ve devoted serious time to reading these books.

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• We dream(ed) that college required reading included our favorite fiction.

• We are professional excuse-makers to slot our reading habit into our real lives.

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• If you ask what we’re reading while we’re reading, you will get only one response:

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• We worry what will become of our books when we’ve shuffled off our mortal coils.

• Books, in short, are everything.

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