I’ve decided to hold off on posting my Saturday Selects post until next Saturday.
This is a question I’ve often wondered of other readers. Have you ever found yourself throwing a book across the room? Perhaps one might do this upon finishing a book and finding the ending unsatisfactory. One might do this upon reading a book that is just terrible. One might do this because they hate books. Or one might do this in the heat of an argument. It could be anything.
I’ve never found myself flinging a book across the room. I’ve read some bad books. I’ve been unsatisfied by book endings. Heck, I’ve been in my share of heated arguments. But I just can’t see myself throwing a book. Wait, I might if a cockroach made its way under my door and came on the attack. Then I’d do anything. Ha! *insert blushing emoji*
But really, it just seems a little crazy to be doing something like that. Or maybe I’m the crazy one.
Have you ever found yourself throwing a book for any reason?
On this day in 2014 I published Saturday Selects: The perfection we all know as Jennifer Lawrence. This is still one of my favorite posts I’ve written on this blog.
PS: I think I’ll be sharing my guest posts all this week. Stay tuned.
Hummmm… I’ve thrown baseballs, footballs, hand grenades… nope! Never thrown a book in my life…
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Hmm. Those other things seem more appropriate to be thrown. Haha
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Unless your book contains the ability to generate a nuclear explosion, it won’t be very effective against a cockroach. Just sayin’.
(No, I don’t throw books. I give the ones with bad endings a very stern look, but that’s about it…)
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No need to kill it. Just get it running away from me. What kind of look do you get in return?
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Once, to my shame.
I learnt many things about myself that day- I’m the kind of monster who would throw a book, I have a wicked aim and moths now tell their caterpillars horror stories about me
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Hahahaha! Were you aiming at something?
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Wait, were you aiming at a moth?
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I was, and I hit the bastard! I live in fear of Mothra’s retribution now though
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Haha! I’ll laugh now, but I can’t blame you. Anything that’s flying is no good. Especially roaches. 😲
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This one was huuuuge, at least the size of a flying cow. It had to die.
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Hahaha are you sure it was a book you threw?
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Either that or an anti aircraft missile- I can’t be sure.
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Oh. I wish I had those lying around for personal use.
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There was one instance I can recall that involved throwing a book, and I remember it vividly, sitting in the basement of my old Traverse City house, trying to dredge my way through the second Twilight book. I was so frustrated with Bella Swan as a narrator that I gave into that wild urge to throw it across the room in disgust.
So, yeah. I felt it was pretty well justified.
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Let’s hope you don’t make a habit of reading bad books. Then you’ll just be throwing them for the fun if it.
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Totally justified – if I ever meet Bella Swan, it’ll be HER I’ll throw across the room for wasting hours of my life. Read one Twilight book and that was one too many
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I threw one. I love books and don’t mistreat them, but this one made me so angry and upset that I pitched it across the room. It was a library book. I forgot to mention to the librarian that I had thrown it and I guess it wasn’t damaged. I guess everyone has a dark side!
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You need to be punished! Crimes against the library.
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Not that I can remember, but I know I’ve used them a few times to kill bugs. Just because it was the handiest thing around. And then I felt guilt after. Not about the bug. But for the book, which now had bug guts on it. Blech.
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Haha I haven’t done that. Mostly I’d just use my shoe. Or hand.
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Ew!!! Your hand! Blech. I can’t stand to feel the crunch of the bug. Even with a paper towel or something. *shiver*
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But I have cat-like reflexes. I gotta do what I gotta do sometimes. 🐱
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*still shivering*
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Me too. It’s chilly in here. And I don’t even have the fan on.
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Bahaha!!! It’s 88 here and I’m dying.
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That’s every day here. But the air condition has decided not to shut off right now. And it’s making me want to get in bed and sleep. Even though I have my camera set up to record. I finished 1984 last night.
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Oh yay! I hope you liked it.
And I’m a baby without air conditioning. And the place I’m staying in right now doesn’t have a/c.
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I can’t tell you what I thought of it just yet. No air conditioner? Whaa?
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I know. Fans are all I have. Apparently people up here don’t use their a/c as much. And I’m an a/c junkie, so I’m going through withdrawal.
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You’re probably experiencing the hottest day of the year up there.
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No, probably not. I’m sure July will be worse. I’m just not as familiar with the weather in Washington as I am the weather in Michigan.
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They’re both up north, therefore they are both cold.
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Colder than Texas, for sure. Michigan is colder than Washington, though. Which is why I’m no good with heat.
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I’m no good with <70°.
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No way, I will never throw my books! I have a kind of obsession and love for my books. If I tried to throw a book across the room, there’s no way I would go through with it 😂
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Haha or you would do it and then you’d run over and start apologizing over and over again. 😂
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Yes, yes exactly!😂
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Your books are your pets! The other day I stepped on my dog in the dark and hugged him for like ten minutes. 😂 He just wanted to sleep. 😏
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Aw! That would be my reaction to my book if I accidentally stepped on it! 😂
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Haha! You might be a little crazy. 😂
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Cant say I’ve ever thrown a book. Oh wait, I lied, I can remember throwing books and other things around my room but never because of the quality of the copy.
I enjoying letting my mind take over my vision and planting the images inspired by the script. For this reason I find that, even with a book that takes an unexpected turn or ending, I’m not sure I’d throw a book across a room.
Interesting concept and no doubt there’d be some clanger stories of books thrown I wonder if anyone has done damage because of throwing books??
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I don’t understand. You threw books around your room, but you can’t imagine throwing them?
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“Oh wait, I lied, I can remember throwing books and other things around my room but never because of the quality of the copy” – I was a mixed up child and had one spat where I threw a book. I ‘mispoke’. sorry, had a brain melt
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Oh. Okay.
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I value my books too much to throw them! In frustration with an ending I’ve tossed a book a foot away on my bed or something. But not a serious throw.
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I think once I had a book on my bed and it fell off and lived under my bed for a good few months cause I didn’t know it was there. Whoops.
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I’ve never knowingly thrown a book, though I should’ve done. Twilight, The Unconsoled … there must be tons more, but as a self-protection mechanism, my brain deletes memories I might find harmful, such as crimes against literature.
Did you throw Charlie and the Chocolate factory, John? Come on, fess up.
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Haha I did not. It’s on my paperback shelf with all my others.
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Bet you were tempted though 🙂
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Nope. It’s pointless.
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I’m with you on this one! They’re too precious for me to throw!
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Haha glad we agree. 😊
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I would never do that to my books!
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Woo. Good job.
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I think I’ve thrown a calculus book across the room before, but I just wasn’t understanding it and knew I shouldn’t even be bothering myself with the book 🙂
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Haha textbooks are the worst.
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Thank you. 😊 And done.
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Thnks!
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