Why Bookworms Love The Holidays

So why do bookworms love the holidays?

Basically, book lovers are known for their general liking of the holidays. I mean, who doesn’t like the holidays? Decorations and fun and snow and all that. And we always love reading books, don’t we? But there’s something about reading in the holidays, something I can’t quite put my finger on, but I’m going to try listing a few reasons.

1)     A clear conscience: We all read. Holidays or not, the reading occurs, BUT in the holidays, we have more of a clear conscience. Lying in a ball of laziness and reading is 100x different from reading, knowing you have a huge assignment for the day after. That annoying, nagging voice in the back of your head takes a vacation too, and for once, you can read with a clear conscience.

2)    Book gifts: You want to say it. I know you do. You’re just afraid of coming off as materialistic, but deep inside, your bookworm heart loves the holidays because of all the books (or book merch) you’re getting! Don’t lie.

3)    Kiss the reading slumps goodbye: Spare time, new books, perfect weather; how could you not read? Have you ever had so much academic or work pressure that you just could not read? And books you love won’t even solve it? And you’re just stuck, barely reading a book or two a month, and it just feels so different? A reading slump. The holidays are a perfect way to get back on track and complete any reading challenges you’ve fallen behind on. You have free time and new books. Several hours straight reading a really good book? Yes, please.

4)    Genre diversity: Do you ever just feel like a certain weather contributes to a certain genre, and it just feels so much better to read a certain type of books? The winter shouldn’t worry you! Dark clouds, rain tapping against your window… it would feel so good to twist the mood with a happy contemporary or match it with a sad love story or just make use of all the free time you won’t have in a few weeks and read a mammoth 800-paged fantasy. Perhaps nonfiction. Whatever you choose, the weather is appropriate. Winter is never NOT appropriate. It matches all the genres.

5)    Buying people books: So you’ve been bugging your friends about reading your new favorite book, but they just won’t budge. The holidays are the perfect excuse to get them the book. This way, they’ll have to read it! I think.

6)    More time for book-blogging: To me, this is really important. One thing I love about the holidays is having the time to post, and then using reading to procrastinate posting. Crap, maybe I should rethink the whole clear conscience thing…

Anyway, I hope you guys liked this! If there’s anything I missed, feel free to tell me below!