If you're a bookaholic, then you will understand and relate wholeheartedly to the following stages of reading an amazing book:
1. When you first open a book/reading app
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2. When you were so excited about a certain book, but then you realize within those first few pages that it's going to suck
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3. And then you're not sure whether to keep going, and not be "that person"
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4. When that instant connection happens
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5. When everything about the main character is beyond relatable to your own life
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6. Whenever that one character who needs to go kick rocks shows up
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7. When you're in so deep that real life doesn't exist. Or matter. Nothing matters.
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8. When shit finally goes down
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9. Panic
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10. PANIC
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11. P A N I C
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12. When you spent all night experiencing stages 1-11
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13. When there's half a page left and everyone is still dead/dying, crying, giving up on life, with the wrong person, Beth hasn't told Steven how she really feels, David hasn't made up with his parents, Julie hasn't made an appearance since Chapter 10, and how in the blessed hell is Maria going to find herself in less than 500 words
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14. When it's all finally over and you've found the will to live again
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