Mistakes of a bookworm! 📚

Hi, hello and hey to the people that brighten up my day! 🫶 In this week’s post I thought it would be both fun and interesting to look at the mistakes of a bookworm! These are my own personal mishaps but perhaps you can relate and even add some of your own! 💌 A part of me feels like I’ve done this post before but we’ll just ignore that shall we? 🤣 I hope I haven’t! Now, let’s gown down to the nitty gritty and share the mistakes of a bookworm, starting with…

Reading more than one book at a time!

Guilty as charged! 🙈 I’m reading loads of books at the moment. I can never seem to stick with one alone but I’m really trying to as I keep forgetting what’s going on otherwise 😂. When there are so many good books, sometimes it can’t be helped tho! 🤷🏽‍♀️ A couple of months ago I got a massive haul of books which I shared over on my Instagram and alongside those I have way too many books checked out from the library (it became a problem when my parents let me use their library cards too but I’m trying to fix it i swear! 🤣). How many books do you read at once? Over on Insta the answer I keep getting is that people stick with one at a time, I wish I could do that too! 🙌

Adding a gazillion books to your TBR!

My To Be Read list is just a fancy way of saying my amazon wishlist at this point as I just keep adding books when I come across them to that 😅🤣. I think having loads of books on your TBR and trying to bulldoze your way through them is just one of the many ways of a bookworm! There is a world full of books waiting to be explored and when you come across some of those gems it can be so difficult to hold back from adding them to a seemingly never-ending list 🫣. Does your TBR go way back or do you tackle it head on and gradually remove some of the books like I’ve seen some other bloggers do?

Being a slow reader! 🐌

I’m like the sloth of slow reading I tell you! 🤣 There was a time when I was so much quicker at taking in information so I don’t know if its my meds or something but I’ve changed so damn much 😩. I remember the days when I used to get through a book a day and I know it’s not a competition or anything and that taking your time to enjoy a read is what matters but how slow I am is literally unreal. As the weather’s gotten nicer I’ve taken to sitting outside to not only write but read as well. It’s so nice being out in fresh air especially if I remember sun lotion but I sit in the shade anyway 🤣. What about you, are you a slow reader like me, an in-between or a fast reader like I hope to one day be again?

Buying too many books!

And also maxing out your library card too 🙈 (god, reality is setting in that this is bad 🤣). I can’t seem to help myself or more so stop myself from buying books whether they be second-hand or new. There was a last purchase in The Works where I got 3 more books and I won’t say which ones they were but I’m yet to pick them up and I still regret it 🤣. My mum and I had just gone shopping and I was wheeling the trolly back in so I went back and got these books that I’d already convinced myself not to get and it was just all kinds of wrong, I should have stood my ground! Oh well, maybe they’ll turn out to be really good and that regret will wash away. I sure hope so anyway! 🥲 Do you have a book buying ban or are you an avid book shopper? I’m dying to know 🤔.

Judging books by their cover!

This can make you see a book in a good way or in a bad way. I’ve bought many a book based purely on the cover and I’ve also avoided some thanks to the cover altho with some bad covers I have been known to give a book a chance regardless depending on the blurb. Sometimes I feel sorry for a book I’ve the covers rubbish too 🤣 or occasionally a book with a stunning cover turns out to be boring and you wonder how it got that tempting cover in the first place! 🤯 What do you think? Do you judge books based upon their cover or not?

---

This was so much fun to do!! And I’m sure there are loads more bookworm mistakes so feel free to share yours in the comments! 💖

I don’t know, do you think us bookworms are too hard on ourselves? Looking back I kinda think I am on the whole reading slowly and more than one book at a time thing. Hmm I’ll work on that! ☺️ At the end of the day it’s all for the love of books am I right?!! 😍📚

I’ll see you lovely lot again next week but until then, I hope you keep well and that your life is filled with amazing reads ✨️. Sending loads of love your way, Buh-bye! 💗xx