Fellow bibliophiles, is there anything about your reading life you’re embarrassed to admit? Today’s the day I’m admitting to my bookish confessions. Feel free to join in!
1) I can’t pronounce the word “library.” This is REALLY embarrassing for me, considering how much time I spend there. Every so often I get it right, completely by accident, but at least 95% of the time it comes out “li-berry,” or sometimes just “libry.” I have no idea why. In college all the cool kids shortened “library” to “libe,” which really worked for me. I was able to get through four years of “hitting the libe” without anyone knowing that the word “library” gives me fits. And now I’ve told the Internets.
2) I’ve never been able to bring myself to read Lolita or The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay because I’m a lepidopterophobe. Any book that involves butterflies or moths as a major plot point just sounds way too scary for me.
3) I’ve read six of the Outlander books by Diana Gabaldon, but I’ve never admitted it on Goodreads… or to anyone without swearing them to secrecy. I even had a favorite: Voyager. I have not actually read beyond A Breath of Snow and Ashes, so I think I may have kicked the habit. I’m no book snob, but I’m pretty embarrassed that there was once a time that I was completely obsessed with Jamie Fraser.
4) I have a small-but-growing collection of Angelina Ballerina books. And they’re not relics from childhood; I actually purchased them as an adult. With money I earned as a lawyer. Yep. (I just love the illustrations so much – the sweet details, the soft colors and the cute little mice.) But I hid the books at one point so a houseguest wouldn’t come across them, and now I can’t find them. And yes, I am actively searching for them. For the baby, of course. (Okay, okay, for me.)
5) I have routinely bought books based on seeing Rory Gilmore read them on “Gilmore Girls.” (For instance, I started reading the Jeeves books after Rory told Richard that she was “very into P.G. Wodehouse.”) MANY of the books on my shelves were Rory “recommendations.” And not just books. I own a “Reading is Sexy” t-shirt that I saw Rory wear and then simply had to have. (What? Reading is sexy.)
There, now you know my secrets, so tell me one of yours. It’s only fair.
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I know a clergyman who cannot pronounce “sepulcher”.
Annual angst sets in.
LOL. Oddly, that makes me feel worlds better!
Hee hee, funny confessions those! I know a lot of people who cannot pronounce ‘library’ correctly. 🙂
I would love a ‘Reading is sexy’ bookmark, or journal, whatever, just because I am not so much into T-shirts. And, yes, reading is sexy.
My confessions:
1. I own a lot of ‘children’s books’, including Peter Rabbit, Paddington Bear and Roald Dahls. I bought all of them after marriage, very much as an adult, just because I loved the books and wanted to read them, and somehow missed reading them when I was a kid.
2. I haven’t read a lot of must-read school and college English books – Lolita, Anna Karenina, A Tale Of Two Cities or any Jane Austen. I am, kind of, skeptical of reading classics and historical fiction.
I didn’t know Lolita has a moth or butterfly as a centrepoint. Does it? :O
I’ve never seen a “Reading is Sexy” bookmark or journal or anything – just the t-shirt – but I’m sure you could find one somewhere! Come to think of it, they may have had tote bags, but I can’t remember now.
I love your confessions! Nothing wrong with reading children’s literature in my opinion. I love Roald Dahl’s books! “Matilda” is my favorite, but my mom is partial to “James and the Giant Peach.”
And yep, the main character in “Lolita” is supposed to be a butterfy/moth expert (among other unsavory characteristics), and I’ve read that figures into the plot. Vladimir Nabokov was a butterfly enthusiast and worked them into many of his books – I read “Pale Fire” and there was a particular butterfly that appeared quite frequently and really freaked me out! I just can’t abide them.