Signs of someone reading a good book...

"I don't normally read this kind of book, but once I started, I couldn't put it down..."

What My-Immortal said. I've had that experience with quite a few books.

Another one could be an absence of music or TV in the house, and just the sound of quiet, while someone is enveloped in their new favorite story?

When I'm reading a good book, it's difficult to distract me, and I am generally easily distracted. My partner says he can tell when I'm really enjoying a book because I sit for hours without getting up for anything.

lfraser said:

When I'm reading a good book, it's difficult to distract me. . .

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Me too. If I'm engrossed in a book and someone walks by me and says my name or asks a question, I may not notice.

allen

"Normally I go to bed early, but I stayed up half the night reading this" does it for me. I once gave a book to a boy who read till 2:00 a.m. when he was supposed to be out mowing grass at 8:30!

10pm - I'll just read the first chapter and go to bed.

4am - Damn that was a good book

"What? That's all? I'm out of Goblin Hero? Noooooooooooo!"

Once in middle school I was reading a book in the courtyard after lunch. Next thing I knew, I looked up, and I was the only one there. Turns out the bell had rung, everyone had filed back into the school, and I had missed half a class all without realizing it.

Yeah, I'll have to agree with these. I can finish most paperbacks in a few hours, so if it's a good one, my husband must make sure to get my attention or I'll never hear him.

And if it's really good, I'll walk around the house doing chores and stuff with my nose in the book.

Missing your train stop.

And laughing aloud, and trying to hope that your fellow passengers don't think yoou're insane. (Pratchett fans get this a lot.)

For me it's laughing. Some guy in Paris was reading a book, laughing and laughing. I pretended to drop something so I could see the cover, hoping that I'd discover a new author.

But no. I'd already read it.

Anybody else do a weird should wriggle thing?

When I was younger, I had a weird, subconscious habit of glancing over to the next page (especially near the ends of chapters). It would usually spoil something, so I made it a habit to use an index card as a bookmark, and run it down the page as I read. Made it impossible to glance ahead.

Definitely a sign that I was reading a good book.

When my eyes start wattering and I realize I haven't blinked for a while. I've actually had glassy eyes after finishing an especially good book lol...

That, or I finish a chapter and realize I'm incredibly thirsty, have to pee like a race horse, and an arm/leg/foot has fallen asleep because I leaned/sat on it too long.

When I'd rather stay up reading than go to bed. Or when I'd rather stay in than go out...no, actually, that's normal for me.

If I finish a book and say, "I wish I'd written that," it goes on my favourite books list, for when people say, "Nichola, you're a bookworm. What would you recommend?" Without even speaking, I hand them a print-out of the list. Or email it to them.

After I've finished a good book (that I sometimes wish wasn't over yet), I will go back to some of my favorite parts and read them again, or go back two chapters and read the end again, just so I can pretend it isn't really over yet.

When I find myself no longer "reading a book" but rather am engrossed in the story.

My husband knows I enjoyed a book when I rush to my computer to find anything else by the author on amazon.

For me, it's the smell of a diaper, because I've been so engrossed in the book I forgot to change him.

I'll carry the book all around the house, even if I don't intend on reading it at that moment, because it makes me happy just having it in my hands. It's like a dog showing off a bone: "Here, see! I've got this good thing, and you don't, so there!" You don't have to be chewing it to enjoy it.



Nicole

I carry books around too.

If I'm reading a book and have to put it down, I know it's a really good book if I catch myself thinking, "What was I eating that was so good?" I wasn't eating anything--I was just getting as much pleasure from the book as from a big hot fudge sundae with sprinkles! Mmmmm, hot fudge sundae....

Or watching people driving the highway in morning and afternoon traffic reading, makes me wonder not only how they do it but what makes that book so good that they can't put it down and drive?