Bookish Confessions || Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is kind of my favorite thing ever, and I miss doing the posts!! But after looking at some of the upcoming prompts I had no clue what to do for any of them, so I thought I'd scrounge up a previous prompt from years prior before I started book blogging. Today I'm going to be delving into all my slightly shameful/unpopular bookish opinions and hoping one of you can relate. 

10 OF A'S BOOKISH CONFESSIONS 

(THAT WILL PROBABLY CAUSE SOME GRUMBLING AND GASPS)

1.) I OWN AT LEAST 15 BOOKMARKS... and I never use them. They are in reach !! They're super nice and high quality !! I even have neat Hobbit bookmarks !! But I always find myself grabbing the most unconventional things to mark my places in books. I've used kleenex, random business cards, folded notebook paper, sticky notes, you name it. I may have also dog-eared once or twice?? (whoops.) Basically, anything that isn't a bookmark will be used as a bookmark by me.

2.) I HAVE 80+ PHYSICAL BOOKS ON MY SHELVES THAT I HAVE NOT READ. *cue hysteric screaming* I KNOW, I KNOW. In my defense, I almost never pay full price for a book, though? Through the use of B&N membership, Book Outlet, coupons, Amazon, + used bookstores, I've managed to get 95% of my books super cheap. AND LOOK, I NEED OPTIONS OKAY. I'm such an intense mood-reader, and having a large tbr, while sort of anxiety-inducing, is actually kind of nice because it means I have a lot of options when it comes to how I'm feeling.
(can you hear how hard I'm trying to justify all this)

3.) I REALLY LIKED TWILIGHT AND I STILL DO. Look, just go ahead and sue me, okay. I know it's wrong. They're problematic as hell and I acknowledge that, I do. But it doesn't stop my tender inner 13 year old from clutching on to them all these years later and refusing to let go of them. They got me back into reading, and they're so damn atmospheric & easy to read?? And Alice is kind of my favorite person ever.
(plus lee pace is in the last two films so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i digress)

4.) I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE BOOKISH CANDLE CRAZE. This is more of a #bookstagram thing but it's such a rabid and fierce obsession and it just... leaves me scratching my head? Candles are great, don't get me wrong, but there's people who have like 50 of them and I don't get it all. They're so damn expensive too?? Do you know how many books can be bought in place of like three candles? 

5.) I LOVE MUSHY ROMANCE STORIES. I cried like a baby at the end of The Vow, and even more at the end of La La Land. I've reread The Hating Game an ungodly amount of times. I have this massive fondness of the idea of soulmates, and as much as I complain about romances in books, there's such a large part of me that is ready to cry when they're done well, and I love cheesy, lovey-dovey stuff. 

6.) I HATE DUMBLEDORE. Like, viciously. He used his influence over Harry to get him to do absolutely insane things and then he just?? Dumped him back in an abusive household? Yeah, no. 

7.) I EAT WHEN I READ SOMETIMES AND I AM SHAMEFULLY MESSY ABOUT IT. I have all the usual bookworm fears when it comes to loaning out books, but an additional one of mine is that I'm petrified somebody will find a food stain in them, especially in older books of mine. I've gotten better about eating certain "stainless" snacks when I occasionally eat and read, but I'm not going to lie, there's a book on my shelves with cheeto fingerprints, and another with chocolate candy stains. I'm ashamed.

8.) SOMETIMES I LIE AND COUNT DNF BOOKS TOWARDS MY READING GOAL FOR THE YEAR. Look, I gave them all my best shot okay. There was just as much effort involved in that partially finished book as there was a finished one, and I'll be damned if my struggle wasn't worth something. 

9.) I ACTUALLY LIKE READING WITH THE BOOK JACKET ON. Apparently this is pretty blasphemous, because all I ever hear is people complaining about how much they hate hardcover book jackets. But I like them?? It gives me something to fiddle with while I read? And I'm inwardly a vain reader who likes others to see the pretty cover of the book I'm reading. 

10.) I HAVE UNFOLLOWED PEOPLE OVER BOOK DISAGREEANCES. This sounds horrible bUT LET ME EXPLAIN. I don't mind disagreeing with people about books, obviously. That's what makes reading such a unique experience and fun thing to come together about. But there are some books that I have serious problems with, and while I don't mind seeing other's post about them, I do mind when they refuse to acknowledge their problematic parts, and use any excuse to get into a fight with others. So I'm not evil, I swear! There's just only so much toxicity I can take. 

And there we go, 10 of my book-related confessions! Now, let's chat! What are your bookish confessions? Do you understand the book candle hype? And do you use bookmarks, or are you a nontraditional bookmark user like me? TELL ME ALL THE THINGS.