منتديات ليلاس - You Are A Romantic Reader/Writer If.......u

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I wrote this before and cocu dear told me I should put it in separate topic so here it goes
What Makes Someone A Romantic Reader/Writer. Here're some thoughts I got from Harlequin forum
You're a romantic reader/writer if u l
you've named your twin boys Drake and Dare. . .
...you plan your vacations based on settings of your favorite book.
When you're playing word association games and someone says Greek, you say Tycoon
...Nora is a one name celebrity in your world.
You have romance word magnets all over your refrigerator. (I do!) LOL
You refer to an argument with your spouse as a "black moment"...
a collage of favourite bookcovers would make a great wallpaper
...you plan your grocery shopping around the days of the month when the books hit the rack in the store.
...you're in a gossip session with one of your 'real' friends and you're discussing characters out of book as if they were real too.
...you have extremely high expectations of your real life hero and are mad because they never swept you away to a private island
...you have to explain why you have weird pictures in a collage on your desktop background to your entire family
....if you easedrop on every conversation you hear everywhere just knowing there is a love story in each situation!
....you want your dh to add a library on to your house (even before each child has own bedroom)!!!
....you've ever openly wept in a public place while hiding the cover of the book you're reading!
....you get stuck unexpectedly in a place/situation for an extended amount of time and the first question you ask is "Where is the nearest place to buy a Harlequin?"

You see and older couple and wonder what their story is.

. . if you've ever struck up a random conversation with a fellow customer/employee in a bookstore about paranormal romance.

. . . .you can discuss the complexities inherent in any paranormal romance -- for more than five species.

Before going to Dr. offices, you plan on which book to take to read in the waiting room and how you'll explain the plot to blokes and lasses that ask about it.

You laugh out loud, or cry, or fume at the books you're reading and don't care if anyone watches;
Talk back to the book you're reading.

. No shopping trip is complete without a trip to the bookstore.
. Anytime you're in a bookstore, you find yourself gravitating to the romance section, "just to see if there's anything new . . ." when you've been there yesterday!

. You think the best present is another romance novel!

. You agree with Erasmus: "When I get a little money, I buy books. Then I buy food and clothing."

The dishes could rot in the sink, while "i just finish this last chapter"...

. . . the staff at the bookstore know you by name.

...your DH knows where to find you in the bookstore. Every single time.

...you stand in front of the HQN shelves and can say "I know her,...and her....and her....and him !"

You might be a romance reader/writer when you plan your honeymoon around how many bookstores are available in the area knowing that you can talk your newly wedded hubby into buying you more because it's a special occassion.

This one is a favorite that I recycled from a similar post last year...
You refuse to buy a new purse if it won't hold at least one book.

. . you've ever planned a vacation around a notable bookstore, and printed out directions to it from your hotel before you figure out how to get to the hotel in the first place.

if you move your boxes of books to your new home, before you move your clothes and kitchen implements.....

you can tell another customer exactly where to find a certain book in the romance section and give reviews and recommendations in a bookstore and you aren't even employed there

...you fell asleep at work because you stayed up way too late the night before just waiting for the H and H to get to their first kiss...

You are at a sporting event and you are trying to find in the crowd who you would cast as the H/H from the book that you are currently reading...
Not to mention that you brought that book plus a spare to the game.

- You read the backs of 50 books, pick out your 10 favs, read 5 today, then read the backs of the same 50 books again, pick out the next 10 you're in the mood to read, and somehow by the end of the week you've read 30 books and the backs of about 70 books (about 3 times each, to find books you're in the mood for)
- Sort the 100s of books in your TBR pile by author, and when you NEED a certain read, you pull up your "auto buy, absolute fav" authors.

- Going away for the weekend, you need to pack at least 30 books (including ebooks) so that you have choices.

- The laptop is a necessity for travelling, especially when you don't have enough luggage room to shove 30 odd books in.

- When playing Scategories, all the authors you name are Harlequin line authors. (Stephen King doesn't occur to you, but Sharon Kendrick, Susan Napier, Susan Stephens, Sara Craven, or Sarah Morgan do. And no one else will repeat THAT author's name)
-You have a "wish list" of books

- You have a "keeper shelf"

- You get rid of the dresser in your bedroom so that you can squeeze a second bookshelf in.

- You started buying Ebooks in order to get an immediate fix to your addiction. (No need to wait for the books to be shipped to you when you can just download it and read it immediately).

- In the library while borrowing books, you are not sure if you have read a particular romance book before as the plots/characters/sypnosis etc sounds alike to the rest of the other romance stories you have read before. However to be safe, you proceed to borrow the said book just in the event that you have not read it before.
- you buy ebooks because you are running out of room on bookshelves and there is no way you can part with any

That's it for now. Tell me what you think and give your ideas too about what makes u a R&R
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