This week’s theme from The Broke and The Bookish is “top ten bookworm delights”, and guys, I don’t know how I’m going to narrow it down to ten.
- The smell of books. When conditions conspire for that perfect new book smell… apparently it involves vanillin? Which makes sense, since that’s vanilla-like and vanilla is my favourite scent.
- When your favourite author has a new book coming out. Extra bonus points if you can get hold of the ARC.
- Finding the right book for someone else. My sister is tearing her way through David Weber’s Honor Harrington books, for example. I got her the first couple and it is so exciting to watch her gnawing through the whole series.
- The taste of words. The sound and mouth-feel of words triggers my synaesthesia, so yep, I get to taste books. And that tends to come together into an overall impression for me. The Hobbit is Werther’s Originals, for example. Robin Hobb’s Royal Assassin is dark chocolate.
- Finding a bookshop with unexpected stock. Whether that’s range or just a shelf with a couple of surprises, I love it. That’s part of why I hit most of the bookshops in Calgary in my rather brief visit there.
- Wind and rain outside, me and book inside. Especially if I can curl up in bed or under my patchwork blanket.
- Finding a new favourite. That moment when you read a book and know it’s going to stay with you. Most recent for me? Every Heart A Doorway, which I just reviewed yesterday.
- Readathons. Official or otherwise. Just that awesome feeling of a stack of books and plenty of time to read them, serially, for as long as you can.
- Books that make you stay up past bedtime. Just one more page… just one more page…
- “Meeting” a character who is just like you. Mori from Among Others is my first choice, but there are so many out there. Kindred spirits, as Anne Shirley would say…
The lists this week should be fun! And I will probably realise I’ve forgotten a super obvious one.
*smiles* With me it’s the smell of a new paperback, the rustle of the pages, ‘just one more chapter’ and the thrill of finding a book that you just can’t put down!
All of those are excellent things!
I’m loving the variation this week. I feel like I ended up (entirely accidentally) left field, so I get to run around all the blog posts squeeing with shared delight. Finding the right book for someone else is one of my favouritest things. I love agonising about the choice, and that lovely moment when they read it and you know if you got it right. Then cups of tea and shared enthusiasm. Wonderful.
I liiive for that moment with my sister. Pretty much every Christmas I matchmake her with a whole stack of books!
#3 – I get such a giddy feeling when I recommend something and the person loves it! It’s fun playing “matchmaker” with books 🙂
Exactly! That’s why I normally give people books as gifts — you always have to put thought into it, so I figure it shows caring.
Ahh yes, there’s nothing better than when you’re curled up in bed reading on a rainy day! Finding books for other people that they love is such a great feeling too!
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Yes, it’s lovely! Also, here in Yorkshire, when it’s windy; it makes it 100x cosier.
Anticipating a book from your favourite author is both amazing and torturous. I like it when I KNOW an author will produce a book in a year, for example, but I dislike waiting for a new release for years and years.
And yeah, books that make you stay up way past your bedtime are the best. I love those authors even as I curse them for being all groggy the next morning!
Great list, Nikki! 🙂
Yeaaah… *glances at Scott Lynch sadly*