You know you've overdone the book geek thing when.....

[stormkeeper_lovesall]

....when you get this cool flyer from the indie bookstore you just visited, you comb through it for books to read, and then you realize that a big chunk of them you already have read and another big chunk are already on your "to read" list.

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[shar-bernadotte.livejournal.com]

LOL! I never get mail like that...

I took this quiz that was on the top 100 movies to see before you die...well...I had seen a total of 15 of them. And maybe five of them were actually ones that I liked. The others I thought were complete shit, or seriously overrated.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Those top 100 list things can be so subjective. I'd way rather read something someone on my f-list wrote (about her fav movies) instead of something some critic wrote.

[shar-bernadotte.livejournal.com]

No shit. A classmate and I agreed that teachers of English Lit should give recommendations for which drug enhances the story...(I don't do drugs and neither does she but we both agree that the stories are usually pretty bad on pure air...)

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

There is no overdoing the book geek thing!

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

You know, it is good that my main hobby is at least a healthy one.

[shar-bernadotte.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there are worse hobbies to have.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! What was on the list? Fellow book geek must know!

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Do you want me to snail mail you the flyer? Or I could just tell you the ones I had selected?

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Oh, just tell me, if you would. Snail mail is kind of a chore just for something like that. Although I wouldn't say no to pen-palling with you. Any excuse to break out my sealing wax. :)

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

You got it....just give me some time to write out the titles and authors for you.

P.S.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

I should add that while I would love to pen pal with you, I suck at snail mail. But at least we have LJ to keep in touch on.

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Here are the books on their list that I either already read or already are on my 'to read' list, title first then author:

The Tiger's Wife - Obreht
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Sendker
State of Wonder - Patchett
Cleopatra - Schiff
The Midwife of Venice - Rich
At Home - Bryson
Clara and Mr Tiffany - Vreeland
The Language of Flowers - Diffenbaugh
Let's Take the Long Way Home - Caldwell
The Story of Beautiful Girl - Simon
Salvage the Bones - Ward
Swamplandia - Russell
Caleb's Crossing - Brooks
The Warmth of Other Suns - Wilkerson
The Widower's Tale - Grant