Poor Jennifer. Jennifer is my early morning workout friend. We have been meeting at the gym at 6:30 am several times a week. Over the weekend on my way to the gym I was thinking how every morning we meet our conversation always turns to books. Mainly because I turn it there. Sure we will discuss whats going on in our lives, and work, and then inevitably I will bring up something I just read or am currently reading. Jennifer is a reader, but not at the capacity that I do and not all the genre’s I do.
I was thinking how funny it was that I will chat away about books while we are on the treadmills. Really…. she cant get away from me… it is like having a captive audience. I think also with the level of passion that I talk about the books it is hard to shut me off and turn the direction around. I told her I was going to write about her this morning and she thought that was pretty funny.
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I try to restrain myself unless the person is interested in books. Otherwise I feel like I’m talking to a wall. Now if the person IS a reader, oh boy!! I can talk a mile a minute.
Thats me too Lynne…. someone mentions a book and I am on like Donkey Kong! LOL
I love love love talking about books – but generally I use them to bring up an interesting subject. I’ve found that as I’ve become a more voracious reader I’ve become less shy around people because I have more to talk about! Funny how that works …..
I sometimes nose into other peoples conversations…. if I hear them talking about books I will say of is that written by ______…. yeah… I am that girl. 🙂
I do that sometimes as well turn it to books because I also usually have at least one beside me.
None of my friends read at the speed I do so they often gasp at me in frustration when they realize I’ve read another book in a day or two.
I try to cap my book talk but its just something I enjoy a lot so its hard.
I’ve tried to get friends to talk about their books when I know they are actually reading something but thats when its like talking to a wall.
Even when they love a book they just kinda shrug at me so I just drop it.
Adiba… you need a book club 🙂
My conversations eventually turn to books and reading. That’s alright with me. Often, that’s how I’m introduced to new authors that I haven’t read before. That’s actually how I was introduced to Jodi Picoult (spelling??)
Alexa – yup you spelled it right. I get that too…. I now have some of my husbands friends who will call me and say have you read ________. It is funny because many of my book clubs husbands read the books to…. I call them undercover Bookies.
Yes, that and movies. Although I’m probably not as bookish as you are (wish to be!). Fortunately I have a couple of friends that I can talk to about the books that I discover. Other than that, my poor husband gets the brunt of it. Fortunately he likes to read (when he can), too.
Laura Hartness
The Calico Critic
Laura my hubby is not a reader so I have to chat books on line with all of you LOL! 🙂
I do love talking about books, and even more “boring” to some of my friends, I talk about blogging!
That’s when their eyes glaze over!
But at my gym, there are several book lovers and I’ve even visited a book club to talk about my books.
I get that “Bloggy Glaze” too Laurel but I just found out that two of my book club girls have blogs now. I hope to introduce them in a Morning Meandering soon.
I do turn the conversation to books if I think the other person has any interest in them at all. My mother-in-law is very patient and listens to all my book talk (we have very different tastes), and then talks about her favorites (Nicholas Sparks and Jodi Picoult – not my normal reads) and I get to smile and nod and listen to her likes and dislikes. 🙂
Alyce that is fun to have a relative that reads with you – even if it is not your fav authors… it is another reader. 🙂 None of my relatives read. Well…. I mean books. I think they can read…. LOL
I do when I’m with a couple of my friends who are big readers. My other friends not so much, there’s other stuff we have in common that we usually discuss.
A girl I work with Zia is a book lover and when she come sin the office to clock in we usually have to go through about 15 minutes of “book chat” before our day starts….
I sometimes do but usually I talk books with my book friends. I do however like the idea of having someone help captive (my husband comes to mind) and having to listen to me talk about my current read!! 😀
Stace – yeah – the captive person is great! I wonder though if she can always hear me…. I may be just chatting away to myself. 🙂
Whenever I see someone reading I always want to know what it is. I love chatting books with my friends. Unfortunately my husband does not share my passion.
I do that too Esme. Even if it is on TV I am trying to see what the book is. I ask people in restaurants and coffee shops too – “whatcha reading?” I guess I may be creepy book girl….LOL
You know, you may be doing your “captive” audience a favor! Maybe she’s subconsciously walking/running faster on the treadmill to get away!!
I have started conversations with random co-workers and then realize I have to rein it in a bit. There’s a look in their eyes that will appear when I realize I have talked their ear off about whatever book or genre!
Julie, my friend Jennifer that I talk about in this post told me that sometimes on the treadmill she cant hear me…. LOL…..
My friends tend to change the subject when I’m on a roll about books. Have very few friends who are readers, and the ones who do read, read different genres.
So happy I’ve found so many like-minded people in the blogosphere! Now I don’t have to watch my friend’s eyes glaze over when I start raving about my latest find! *L*
Exactly Alexia! That is what feeds me here with other book bloggers. We are like minded people. AND… there is a lot of us. If we all got together we could take out those non readers….LOL
I always turn the conversation to books, my friends are so used to it by now. Though they do well out of it as they get to read all my good books.
I really try to avoid the book conversation as most of my friends are not book people. I think part of it is I am afraid of what they will think, but then I realize they are friends for a reason and they wont think or say anything negative. Thats what friends do. But, I really don’t have anyone to talk to about books. I try to relate the books to movies with my family, and my husband has even started asking me “Is that one from a book?” or “Did you read that book?” It is kind of nice in a way.
I didn’t realize that I did turn the conversation to books until this last trip. We stopped to visit our daughter’s piano teacher from 20 years ago. We had been visiting for a while after going out to dinner, when I mentioned a book and discovered she was an avid reader. We talked books for the next 20 minutes, until we left. My husband just rolled his eyes. Most other people I visit with are friends and I know they are readers. Now that I think of it, books tend to come up in most of my conversations.