Book Blogger Hop
This prompt was submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer:
Which do you prefer to be known as: a voracious reader or a book nerd?
If I’m going to limit myself to those choices, I guess I’d probably go with “voracious reader”. I like the term book nerd, though, and would answer to it unthinkingly. But voracious seems to fit me better (although it also feels like an understatement…from my first reading to today, I saw myself in Scout Finch’s “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”).
However, if I’m not limiting myself to those options, I have a few other ideas:
The ubiquitous Book Wyrm/Book Dragon label
A Book Shark (à la “I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.” as Patrick Rothfuss has said)
An Irresponsible Reader (see this comic, and, well…the banner above)
A Bookish Weirdo (thanks, Fahrenheit Press merch!)
But I think my favorite description is something I stumbled onto via a Kevin Hearne tweet: “ink drinker” (buveur d’encre) (see this post from bluesyemre for other nifty international terms).
How do you self-identify as readers?
WS_BOOKCLUB
I love ink drinker! If I ever give in and start wearing the glasses I need but forget exist, I’m getting that engraved on the sides.
HCNewton
That’s a great idea (and much easier than my plan on figuring out a way to work that into a picture for a tattoo)