Just about anything, if you think about it, can be stereotyped. We have “stereotypical” book plot-lines, “stereotypical” television plot-lines, “stereotypical” people, etc. Book bloggers are pretty much the same. And with the influx of fresh new writers coming into the book blogosphere, I’ve decided to give a helping hand in explaining the stereotypical book blogger.
If it’s your dream and desire to become this stereotype, just stick around and I’ll show you the magic.
Your life must revolve around books
Books are your life. Books are your hobby. Books are your goals. Your personality. Books are the air that you breathe. Books are so important to you that they trump everything else. Including your financial situations, because, hey, the bookstore downtown is running a sale on popular contemporary fiction this week!
Your aspiration in life must be to either become: A.) An author B.) A librarian C.) Some other literacy-centered career
You’re not serious about books unless you want eeeeverything about your life to be about books. This includes your career. It’s all about branding, baby!
You, yes you, go change your major right now if you aren’t on the road towards one of these careers right now!
Read 100-300 books yearly
You’re a book blogger now. So you have to prove you’re serious. This means you have to read all the books if you want to have any credibility. Other life things like work, family, and school don’t matter that much anyways.
And the best way to accomplish this?
Participate in every readathon there is
If there is anything book bloggers are famous for, it’s their hardcore readathons. It’s hard to spot a book blogger that has not participated or hosted at least one such readathon. Not only does this up your read-count, but it shows all the other book bloggers that you’re a serious book aficionado.
Print over ereader. Always. Unless Amazon is running a sale on Kindle books.
What? Books being replaced by computers? Neverrrrr. We book bloggers are here to preserve the print copy of all our favorite books because we cannot let literature go digital.
Fangirl over every popular series
You love Veronica Roth, J.K. Rowling, Susanne Collins, and Cassandra Clare. Even if you don’t love them, you do. Their books are the absolute BEST. You are now their #1 fangirl (or fanboy).
You must believe the actors for the protagonists in the movie adaptions are hot
Anyone who plays your favorite protagonists must be hot. Even if they’re not, they are hot because they are your lovely protagonist and that fact alone makes them incredibly hot. Continue to fangirl over them as you did the books they came from.
With these seven little tips, you can become the greatest stereotypical book blogger there ever was. Go out and shock the world with your amazing, generalized, book-bloggerness.
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Well, I would add ‘you have no social life’ to the first thing you mentioned (your life must resolve about books), because we only sit in our chairs reading books. The only thing we do that looks like something social is going out to the bookstore. We don’t like other people except fictional characters.
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OH that’s a good one! Why didn’t I think about that? You’re a genius.
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Well, I would add ‘you have no social life’ to the first thing you mentioned (your life must resolve about books), because we only sit in our chairs reading books. The only thing we do that looks like something social is going out to the bookstore. We don’t like other people except fictional characters.
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OH that’s a good one! Why didn’t I think about that? You’re a genius.
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Haha I love it! š
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Thanks!
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Haha I love it! š
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Thanks!
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Haha, book bloggers in a nutshell! š
Oh and is it sad that none of these pointers apply to me? D:
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Haha, not at all! This post was honestly just me joking around about commonalities in the book blogging community–but to the extreme. After all, extremes are what stereotypes are, right?
But, noooo, it’s not sad at all!
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Haha, book bloggers in a nutshell! š
Oh and is it sad that none of these pointers apply to me? D:
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Haha, not at all! This post was honestly just me joking around about commonalities in the book blogging community–but to the extreme. After all, extremes are what stereotypes are, right?
But, noooo, it’s not sad at all!
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Omg…*hides* I fit all of these except for participating in all the readathons and I WOULD do them except I’m lazy. Haha! So I guess I’m a stereotypical blogger. *sighs* You forgot takes photos of your books for instagram!! XD
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OH. That’s a good one! Don’t ask me why I always forget all of those important things. I like Instagram. . . I need to get back to using it.
I’m lazy too. Don’t feel bad. We can be lazy and not do readathons together.
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*hides with you* All of these except readathons fit me too, and laziness is also the only reason I don’t do those! Haha, I also do bookish Instagram posts.
Pretty sure book bloggers are required to love coffee and/or tea!
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Omg…*hides* I fit all of these except for participating in all the readathons and I WOULD do them except I’m lazy. Haha! So I guess I’m a stereotypical blogger. *sighs* You forgot takes photos of your books for instagram!! XD
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OH. That’s a good one! Don’t ask me why I always forget all of those important things. I like Instagram. . . I need to get back to using it.
I’m lazy too. Don’t feel bad. We can be lazy and not do readathons together.
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*hides with you* All of these except readathons fit me too, and laziness is also the only reason I don’t do those! Haha, I also do bookish Instagram posts.
Pretty sure book bloggers are required to love coffee and/or tea!
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I’m working on not being one of those. My family would like to visit with me again and I’d like to return to writing stories without having to jump online. Enjoyed your post because it was quite accurate.
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Oh, yes, I feel you there. I imagine your family will be quite appreciative too! Mine kind of hints at it when I’ve become hermit after awhile.
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I’m working on not being one of those. My family would like to visit with me again and I’d like to return to writing stories without having to jump online. Enjoyed your post because it was quite accurate.
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Oh, yes, I feel you there. I imagine your family will be quite appreciative too! Mine kind of hints at it when I’ve become hermit after awhile.
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I love these kinds of posts, feel like I’ve found my kind of people. Checking out your blog after finding your post on procrastination haha.
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I love these kinds of posts, feel like I’ve found my kind of people. Checking out your blog after finding your post on procrastination haha.