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…

You know you’re a lit nerd when you get an unnecessarily huge kick out of dictionary surnames.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE A LIT NERD WHEN SPOILERS DONT BOTHER YOU BECAUSE THE THEMES MATTER MORE THAN THE PLOT

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.

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.

9. A book you didn’t think you’d like but ended up loving.

 “One Day” by David Nicholls.

I bought this book in a second-hand shop because a lot of people had said good things about it, and I decided to give it a go. It’s not really the sort of thing I’d normally enjoy, and then when I started it, I found it very slow and depressing, so I put it to one side, and decided I’d read it another day. That other day came, and after reading only a few pages after the point I’d given up, I was hooked. The basic plot is that two people, Dexter and Emma, meet on their graduation night, and become “friends”. The book basically dips in and out of their lives, and their trials and tribulations. A pretty standard love story, you think? That’s certainly what I thought, and that’s why I didn’t think I’d enjoy it. The thing that really makes this book are Dexter and Emma - they really are brilliant characters, and the end makes me cry like a baby every time.

Read the first few pages here.

You know you’re a lit nerd when you call famous actors by the names of the literary characters they have played rather than by their real names.

You know you’re a lit nerd when holding a kindle feels like a mixture of ecstacy and betrayal.

You know you’re a lit nerd when you know Byronic heroes are the BEST type of heroes.