Search The Bible   
Featured Sponsors
Crosswalk Forums on Faith Community Network
  Forum Tools
Forums  | Register | Login

Photo Gallery |  Member List |  Search |  Calendars |  FAQ |  TOS |  Disclaimer |  Ticket List | 

You Know You're Addicted To Reading When...

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Fun] >> Books >> You Know You're Addicted To Reading When...
Jump to post #:
Page: [1] 2 3   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 12:52:11 PM   
raspberry331

 

Posts: 3539
Joined: 5/7/2005
Status: offline
You Know You're Addicted To Reading When..........

When you have a book stashed in every room in your house including the bathroom.

When you make so many trips to the bookstore that the guy behind the counter thinks you have a crush on him.

When everytime you're going away for the weekend you pack more books than clothes


When your local librarian starts to point out which books you haven't yet read.

If you read in front of others because you just have to finish the book.

Please add yours and if you agree with anyone else's posts,let us know.
Post #: 1
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 3:00:47 PM   
jazzact13

 

Posts: 682
Joined: 4/15/2005
Status: offline
When the book store has a special section with your name on it.

When the library has your name on it.

When getting around your house is like navigating a maze because of all the bookshelves.

_____________________________

The ACORN doesn't fall far from the "O"ak
Post #: 2
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 3:07:21 PM   
jazzact13

 

Posts: 682
Joined: 4/15/2005
Status: offline
When you lament because there are no more Louis L'amour books to read.

When you've read all of the "Wheel of Time" books.

When you're forced to read the telephone book because you've read everything else it in the house and it's a holiday so the library's closed.

_____________________________

The ACORN doesn't fall far from the "O"ak
Post #: 3
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 3:51:45 PM   
uncabeeil


Posts: 4936
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Joisey. Got a problem wit dat?
Status: online
When the clerks at the book store start putting books aside for you before you ask for them.

When you pre-order the next book in a series a year before it's going to be released.

When you take a job n a book store and get paid in product.

When the manager of the book store starts asking you for recommendations.

When you clean out all the books you feel you can part from and still don't have room for anything new.

When your spouse/roommate's first response upon seeing you with a bag is "now what books did you buy?"


_____________________________

"It don't do to fight with God cuz He always wins.
He bloodies your nose and then gives you a ride home on his bike"
Rich Mullins
Post #: 4
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 5:39:03 PM   
9drtr

 

Posts: 1057
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Toronto the Good
Status: offline
When you choose your clothes because they have pockets big enough to carry trade paperbacks.

When you know what a trade paperback is.

_____________________________

Edwin

When we know who is coming, how can we worry about what is coming? When the last hour belongs to us, how can we worry about the next minute?
Ross Crighton
Post #: 5
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/26/2009 6:36:20 PM   
March7


Posts: 937
Joined: 6/1/2008
From: Over the mountains and through the woods!
Status: offline
You can't fall asleep unless a book is tucked under your cheek as you read yourself to sleep...but you love to read so you don't fall asleep for two-three hours.

_____________________________

"Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of His glory with great joy...before all time and now and forever. Amen" (Jude 1:24, ESV).
Post #: 6
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/27/2009 7:26:51 AM   
greatdivide46


Posts: 1584
Joined: 4/12/2005
From: Opp, Alabama
Status: offline
When you have a special room in your house dedicated to nothing but your books.

_____________________________

greatdivide46
<===avatar is US soldiers in Iraq at sunset
You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. -- Leviticus 19:32
Post #: 7
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/27/2009 10:01:15 AM   
uncabeeil


Posts: 4936
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Joisey. Got a problem wit dat?
Status: online
quote:

ORIGINAL: greatdivide46

When you have a special room in your house dedicated to nothing but your books.

Or wish you did.

_____________________________

"It don't do to fight with God cuz He always wins.
He bloodies your nose and then gives you a ride home on his bike"
Rich Mullins
Post #: 8
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/27/2009 10:04:43 AM   
Auben


Posts: 1146
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Where pines tower and cranberries float
Status: offline
When you have a special line on your budget related to books and bookshelves.

When you have a scanner so you can keep track of your collection.

When you take the morning off the day of the library or AAUW book sale.

When your family doesn't bother to look for a book because you'll know exactly where it is.

You have bookshelves/boxes in every room, including the bathroom, car, and kitchen.

No one bothers to ask you 'are you reading that?' anymore.

When you stop in a town on vacation your spouse doesn't bother to ask you where you'd like to start. (the bookstore)

Instead of CDs, video games, or built-in video systems, you have a tradition of reading to each other while you drive.

You chose garage sales from the paper based on how prominently the world BOOKS is used in the ad.

Your brothers refuse to move you anymore.

_____________________________

Tamara

~Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time~
Post #: 9
You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/27/2009 10:05:43 AM   
PinkCarnations

 

Posts: 10801
Status: offline
Uh oh, I've had several of those things happen to me.

_____________________________

Thank you Veterans.
Post #: 10
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/27/2009 4:45:18 PM   
Random


Posts: 753
Joined: 4/18/2005
From: Zipperhead
Status: offline
When you have an excel spreadsheet to track every book you read, the number of pages, how many days you spent on it and the date you finished it.

_____________________________

Check out my blog:
http://finance4nerds.com
Post #: 11
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/28/2009 12:21:11 AM   
JustaFan


Posts: 371
Joined: 4/24/2006
Status: offline
When the librarian keeps your tastes in mind when s/he is buying new library books.

_____________________________

Judith
Post #: 12
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 12:32:32 PM   
cherish405


Posts: 32127
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: The Land Down Under
Status: online
quote:

ORIGINAL: uncabeeil

When you pre-order the next book in a series a year before it's going to be released.

When the manager of the book store starts asking you for recommendations.

When you clean out all the books you feel you can part from and still don't have room for anything new.

When your spouse/roommate's first response upon seeing you with a bag is "now what books did you buy?"


Guilty.

quote:

When you have a special room in your house dedicated to nothing but your books.


quote:

Or wish you did.


Guilty.

I get newsletters from a publisher about new books that are coming from my favourite authors.

I do have a thing about having books in the bathroom/toilet. I'm not doing that.

< Message edited by cherish405 -- 8/29/2009 12:41:23 PM >


_____________________________

From this time forth, with the powers vested in me, this post serves as public notice of the issuance of one unrevocable lisence to cherish405 to have special dispensation in the matter of drive-by huggings as she sees fit. ~rayofson~
Post #: 13
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 12:47:29 PM   
thedivabrat


Posts: 1545
Joined: 6/15/2008
From: North and South
Status: offline
quote:

I do have a thing about having books in the bathroom/toilet. I'm not doing that.


I agree--but sometimes...

_____________________________

thedivabrat's place

My Blog Just Wondering (Facing Goliath 10/18/09)
Post #: 14
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 12:52:16 PM   
TheTartanTammy


Posts: 812
Joined: 12/2/2008
From: North Britain!!!!
Status: offline
When your main relationships start to slip.

_____________________________

TheTartanTammy

Isa 40: 11
Post #: 15
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 7:34:36 PM   
NotDoneYet


Posts: 209
Joined: 12/11/2007
From: Virginia
Status: offline
When your kids remember you cooking dinner without putting your latest read down.

_____________________________

Remember, normal is just a setting on the dryer!
Post #: 16
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 7:38:39 PM   
uncabeeil


Posts: 4936
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Joisey. Got a problem wit dat?
Status: online
quote:

I do have a thing about having books in the bathroom/toilet. I'm not doing that.
Are you kidding? That's my personal reading room.

_____________________________

"It don't do to fight with God cuz He always wins.
He bloodies your nose and then gives you a ride home on his bike"
Rich Mullins
Post #: 17
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 8:40:53 PM   
sue244


Posts: 529
Joined: 6/7/2006
From: Colorado
Status: online
When someone gives you a book to read and then they are surprised when you give it back to them the next day (or even the same day).
When you know you are going to move so you start stocking up on storage boxes with wheals on them to move just your books.
When you know excactly how many books you have to remove from a bookshelf before you can move it around.
When you still insiste on carrying around a fiction book in your backpack even with all your textbook and laptop in there.
When your biggest selling point for the Amazon Kindel is not having to worry about over weight baggage fees when traviling

_____________________________

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl,
a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for
service and honor.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Post #: 18
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/29/2009 11:19:09 PM   
coolgirl1994


Posts: 17
Joined: 8/18/2009
From: Spare Oom
Status: offline
When your bookshelf breaks from the weight
when your teacher tells you not to read a book until the rest of the class starts it.
both of which have happened to me. :)

_____________________________

Life is a maybe,
Death is for sure,
Sin is the cause,
Christ is the cure.
Post #: 19
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/30/2009 3:09:49 AM   
TheTartanTammy


Posts: 812
Joined: 12/2/2008
From: North Britain!!!!
Status: offline
When you miss out on all the fun going on around you.

When you cannot see the wood for the trees.

_____________________________

TheTartanTammy

Isa 40: 11
Post #: 20
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/30/2009 2:12:47 PM   
9drtr

 

Posts: 1057
Joined: 4/11/2005
From: Toronto the Good
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Auben

Your brothers refuse to move you anymore.


It's a good thing I have nephews.

_____________________________

Edwin

When we know who is coming, how can we worry about what is coming? When the last hour belongs to us, how can we worry about the next minute?
Ross Crighton
Post #: 21
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/31/2009 2:28:07 AM   
JustinDew

 

Posts: 77
Joined: 8/2/2008
Status: offline
When you're on a first name basis with you Library's director.
When the librarian staff puts books on hold with out you asking.
When your mother wishes aloud that she never taught me to read.
When the library staffs yells at you for asking about a book too many times.

quote:

quote:

When you have a special room in your house dedicated to nothing but your books.

Hey That's my bedroom.

< Message edited by JustinDew -- 8/31/2009 10:09:40 AM >


_____________________________

Don't lead someone down the path of sin or they might push you into the flames.

My Blog
Post #: 22
You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 8/31/2009 9:09:43 AM   
PinkCarnations

 

Posts: 10801
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: JustinDew

When your mother wishes aloud that she never taught me to read.



Some days I feel that way about my dd!

_____________________________

Thank you Veterans.
Post #: 23
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 9/8/2009 12:40:59 PM   
debilyn

 

Posts: 269
Status: offline
When you're bleary-eyed and sleepy the next morning because you stayed up late to finish the book.
Post #: 24
RE: You Know You're Addicted To Reading When... - 9/8/2009 9:03:39 PM   
RavensDesires

 

Posts: 105
Joined: 8/17/2009
Status: offline
When you fill up the memory on your new Kindle and have to buy another memory card.
When you "buy" all the free Kindle books on Amazon.com even though you know you will NEVER EVER get to reading them all.
Post #: 25
Page:   [1] 2 3   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Fun] >> Books >> You Know You're Addicted To Reading When...
Jump to post #:
Page: [1] 2 3   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Crosswalk Forums on Faith Community Network
  Forum Tools
Forums  | Register | Login

Photo Gallery |  Member List |  Search |  Calendars |  FAQ |  TOS |  Disclaimer |  Ticket List | 

Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.5 ANSI