Things People Say In Relation To Books That Piss Me Off

I should probably do a disclaimer here, yes these things do piss me off but I do know the intentions are for the good but after years of these sentences that many have uttered to me... Yeah I feel it's right to share them and let them be known.

They annoy me for a number of reasons and I am sure I am not the only one who feels this. Or I hope I am not the only one who feels this agony with some of these experiences.

• 'Oh you read, if you read then obviously you have read this book and that book it's a classic so of course you have read this'.

• When people start up conversations with me full well knowing that I am trying to read and also fully aware that i do not want to be disturbed.

• 'What are you reading?' They ask whilst I am reading and do not want to be disturbed.

• 'If you haven't read this specific book then clearly you don't read as much as you say you do'.

• 'I read this book and because you read I must suggest it to you regardless of you liking this genre or not.

• Judging me because I read or making assumptions based on me reading or even the materials I read.

• When most adults give me book recommendations.

• When people assume that because you work in a bookshop that you know where every single book is and what the book is about.

• When people make assumptions that I have read every book out there and then begin testing my book knowledge or saying oh have you read this or that in a test way.

• When someone starts judging me because I haven't read a book they have.