You know you’re a lit nerd when you deliberately commit thoughtcrime, just to test how close George Orwell’s vision is.

You know you’re a lit nerd when you felt like pulling an “Annie Wilkes” when an author kills off your favourite character.

You know you’re a lit nerd when there’s that one book that you use to prop up wobbly chairs… because there’s not really any other use for it.

You know you’re a lit nerd when a book has changed your life.

You know you’re a lit nerd when as soon as you finish one book you begin another.

You know you’re a lit nerd when, after “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, smelling a particularly nice perfume always leaves you wondering exactly what it was made from…

I have an idea…

How about I run some literary confessions? Just message me your confessions, and I’ll put them up to see if we all feel the same?

• Literary crushes/ shipping,
• Things you liked/ disliked against popular opinion,
• How you would have preferred a novel to end,
• Pretty much anything else, I’m intrigued as to what could come up.

You know you’re a lit nerd when the fastest way to your heart is to be told how ardently you are admired and loved.

You know you’re a lit nerd when the fact that your parents named you after a literary figure seems almost like a premonition.

10. Favourite classic book.

Ah, I’ve already said “Wuthering Heights”… so my other favourite…

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.

Yet again, not the edition I have (unsurprising, as mine is older than I am). “Jane Eyre” was the first classic novel I ever read, at the tender age of 11. The basic plotline is that Jane Eyre, an orphan, becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of the drop-dead-gorgeous Mr Rochester. Unsurprisingly, she falls for him and his brooding charm, making this something of a tale of unrequited love, but meanwhile, mysterious events and ghostly sightings are occuring throughout Thornfield…
You may be able to tell that I’m in something of a dramatic mood, but it’s hard to do Jane Eyre justice without being dramatic. It’s a sweeping, mysterious and passionate novel, and the characters of Jane and, of course, Mr Edward Rochester, are some of the most endearing in English Literature, if not World literature.

Read the first few pages here.

Cult Literary Traditions for Truly Die-Hard Fans.

Taken from http://flavorwire.com/251506/10-cult-literary-traditions-for-truly-die-hard-fans, written by Emily Temple.

10 Cult Literary Traditions for Truly Die-Hard Fans.

The Poe Toaster.

For 60 years, every January 19th, on the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday, a mysterious figure would visit Poe’s grave in Baltimore, pour himself a glass of cognac, raise a toast to the author, and leave three red roses and the rest of the bottle of cognac at his gravestone before vanishing into the darkness. A tradition grew for local Poe fans to gather to watch the shadowy figure (or figures — common wisdom is that the tradition was passed from father to son), and read the cryptic notes he sometimes left behind. Sadly, this January 19th has come and gone for the third time without the appearance of the “Poe Toaster,” so by all accounts this tradition has come to an end. Unless, that is, we can entreat any enterprising Poe fan to take up the mysterious mantle next year.

I would have used Amontillado, but still, I love this.