Polymnia Blues

…You’re in a relationship with a book.

1. You Spend More Time with Books Than Anyone Else:
   • Your Friday night companion is often a book and your idea of a perfect “date” involves a quiet corner, so you can read your book.
2. You Talk About It Constantly:
   • Your friends and family are more than well-acquainted with the latest character developments and plot twists in your book’s life. So much so, in fact, they can forget you’re talking about a book and not another person.
3. You Get Jealous Easily:
   • The sight of someone else picking up your current read feels like a betrayal, and you can’t help but shoot them jealous glances. I mean, how dare they! Right?
4. You Can Quote Your Favorite Story by Heart:
   • You often find yourself randomly quoting lines from your favorite books in everyday conversations, even if the quotes themselves don’t fit the situations you are in, or the people you are with will have no idea what you are referencing.
5. You Plan Your Future Around What You Read:
   • Your future plans involve extensive reading time. Forget about exotic vacations; you dream of cozy reading nooks and well-stocked bookshelves. Forget about meeting up with your friends; you need to know how that cliffhanger from the last chapter will end.
6. You Get Emotional Easily:
   • A great book can bring you to tears or make you burst into laughter. You’re emotionally invested, and you wouldn’t have it any other way. Just remember to touch some grass once in a while. If your book is making your emotions feel like you’re in a hot/cold relationship, well, it might be time to take a break.
7. You Appreciate It in All Its Forms:
   • You love the feel and smell of physical books, but you’re not opposed to a digital relationship when it’s convenient. It’s all about the content, after all. You love your story no matter what shape or form it takes.
8. You’re Willing to Share, but Not Really:
   • You might lend a book to a friend, but deep down, parting with any of your library gives you separation anxiety. The only way you could share your beloved paperbacks?Friends have to be just as devoted to the written word as you are (that and sign a waver).
9. You’ve Made Sacrifices for Books:
   • You’ve forgone sleep, meals, and social events just to spend a few more pages with your beloved book. No regrets. None. Not ever all the time you two shared bonding over metaphors, symbolism, and unbelievably sexy fictional characters together.
10. You Judge Others Based on Their Book Choices:
    • You can’t help but make snap judgments about people based on their reading preferences. A potential friend or partner’s taste in books is a deal-breaker or deal-maker. Well, that is if you had time to make new friends or date or meet new people. So far, your book is calling to you and that desire trumps the need for any human contact whatsoever. At least, after this last chapter…..