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What's your 1st world book problem?

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In response to a recent column I wrote, readers decided to share the frivolous, but painful first world bookish problems they can relate to.

Here are some of their responses.

Chantal:

My biggest pain is my best friend. She wants to be a big book lover but is just not a reader. As a result, this causes her to skip chapters, only to get the whole story wrong and the characters mixed up.

Because of this, she then causes me to rethink and reread to see if I may have missed something in the story.

Pamela:

There is no greater disappointment, NONE I tell you, than when you have just ordered your wonderful new book on Kindle and are ready to read and about to hit the 'flight mode' button for your 10 hour flight overseas... only to be told there is something wrong with the payment and you can't have your book!

Liezel:

I am a serious book addict and know first-hand some of the “problems” we encounter.
Not a month goes by where I do not shop for books.  This is my absolute obsession. 

Not clothing, bags or shoes, but books!  

I also need to have a variety of books to suit my every mood.  I don’t know what mood I’ll be in tomorrow, but I know that I need to have that specific book that’s going to give my mood a complete overhaul.  

Lo and behold if that variety isn’t up to date and stocked up.  I become fidgety and drive my husband insane. 

I need to have my book fix or else!  It’s when I say I’m having book PMS.

I have also recently tested the e-book waters as I have been told I need to get with the times.  The problem is, I usually read till my eyes literally closes and the book falls off the bed with a very pronounced thud.  

With the tablet, I need to keep reminding myself when I get to some point of near unconsciousness that I need to put the tablet down as clearly the results will not be the same as a book landing on the floor.  

I’ve even tried changing positions with the hope that if the inevitable happens, it will at least not land on the floor, but alas, on my poor sleeping husband. 

The jury is still out on this one.

With that said, I need to go and hunt down the people on my book hit list.  Why do some people not understand the meaning of lend?  The last time I checked, it didn’t equate to the word keep!

Celeste:

Having to STOP reading in the bath because the water gets cold!

Reading a whole series only to find the end doesn’t match your anticipation!

I’m a happy ending kind of person so I hate it when there is no happily ever after at the end! (e.g. the Aragon series!)

Amanda:

My problem is books being made into movies. I still have never been able to watch The Hunt for Red October as in the trailer the Russian sea captain was played by Sean Connery with a Scottish accent and that was not what he sounded like in my head.

Can you relate to any of the abovementioned problems? Join in on the conversation and add your first world bookish problems in the comment box below.

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