Top Ten Tuesday: Why I Love Being A Reader & A Book Blogger

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke & The Bookish. Each week they host a different top ten topic.

1. I can escape the world around me, even if it's only for five minutes on my journey home or for hours at a time. Sometimes, during the hardest times you can go through, getting sucked into a story can make you feel okay the whole time you're reading it. It transports you somewhere else entirely and I absolutely love that.





2. I seem to easily form bonds and relationships to fictional characters and it's wonderful. I find myself loving these characters as if they were real people and caring so much about them. Whether it's a character for you to love, hate, root for, cry over or eagerly anticipate their death, books can make me feel more emotions in a couple of hours of reading than I will feel going about my daily life for two weeks.


3. Book Boyfriends - we all have them, we all love them. Books are such amazing things but they are also terrible at the same time. The reason I say that is because they definitely give you very high expectations of what to expect from men. And most men can't live up to the guys we find in our books.

4. Sharing is caring - One of the main things I love about being a reader is sharing books with other people. When you find a book you absolutely love it makes you want to shout about it as much as you can and try to force as many other people as you can find to read it to. If they love it then I get the joy of gushing about it with them and if they hate it then I get the joy of an in depth discussion as to why. Some of my favourite books are ones that have been recommended/shoved at me by other people and I am so thankful for that.

I'm the one in the dress who looks far too happy!

5. It provided me with the most amazing childhood - I have read for as long as I can remember, but I was pretty much the perfect age for Harry Potter and was able to grow up reading it. That really made my childhood fantastic. The books coming out at midnight and being able to stay up to go get them. Having a reading marathon till the early hours of the morning to beat my sister to the end of each book. ALL THE EMOTIONS! The crying, shouting and the wanting to hurt J.K.Rowling for all she did in book seven. There was no better way to grow up!

1. The WOW factor - I love the amazing feeling that blogging has given me. And how each and every little milestone gives me such an amazing feeling. I still remember getting my first ever follower and thinking, Wow, just WOW! And that hasn't stopped yet, with each new comment or follower or word of support I get more little wows! And that's why I don't see myself ever giving this up.

2. The people - Blogging can be time consuming and so much harder than I ever imagined at times but the people make it worth it. I'm really shy in my day to day life (seriously, I am socially inept!), a job working with the public has helped but not much! So it's blown me away just how much easier it is to talk to people through the blog. I think it's the fact we all share the same interests and can get all giddy and excited about books together. I have to get over my shyness on Twitter though, I see great tweets but never comment back - this must change!

3. Discovering new books - I got 25 books this year for Christmas and about 20 of those were books that I had only heard about because of blogging. I have started reading books that I normally wouldn't pick up because of peoples recommendations and I've enjoyed most of them. I'm finding books that are out in different countries but you don't really hear about here. My TBR list is now too long to even think about, but I couldn't be happier.

4. I always have something to do - I think other bloggers will understand just how much time, energy and effort goes into blogging. I am never bored any more because I can always update the blog or go discover new blogs. I can read peoples reviews or their recommendations, I can go comment on some incredible discussions. It is also an escape from the world around you, I can get caught up in writing a post or checking out other blogs and I love that. Last year was a really awful and emotional year, I can't imagine having a worse year. But through it all, blogging was something I could always look forward to and I am so grateful for that.

5. I don't feel crazy - I will explain. In my life I know very few people who have a love of books. I work in a library so that is saying a lot. I can't stop myself buying books, even though I own hundreds already that I haven't gotten to read yet. I can get lost in a book for hours and not want to put it down for anything. I can sob hysterically at a book and my boyfriend will look at me like I am actually going insane. But, thanks to blogging, I don't feel like a crazy person any more... I'm just a book lover! And finding so many people who feel the same way makes me feel like a sane, completely rational human being... maybe!



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