The Nerd That I’ve Become

It came to my attention the other day that I have become what I consider to be a nerd.  This realization left me wondering when this happened.  How long have I been one and not known?  Is it a new phenomenon?  Am I stuck with it?  What can I do about it?

I realized I was a nerd when I got a package in the mail from Purolator.  I had been waiting not so patiently for it to arrive.  I ordered the contents of this package late last Friday night and the website told me it would be here sometime between 7 and 12 days.  Seemed reasonable enough and I thought that I could wait that long.  I was apparently wrong.  Every day since I hit the submit button on the webpage I have been hoping that it would finally be the day it showed up.  Day 5 my package finally arrived.  I was more excited than I probably should have been.  My books had finally arrived. 

I had never intended to purchase the books online.  I bought a book that looked interesting while I was shopping at Costco.  I realized when I was done reading it that it was the 9^th book in a series.  Costco only had the 9^th and 10^th books.  So what was a girl to do?  Obviously the only solution was to go out and by the 10^th book.  I expected it to take me awhile to read them but that did not happen.  I couldn’t put them down.  James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club series had my full and undivided attention.

I was determined that I had to read the complete series now.  On Friday night, the same night that I finished the 10^th book, I made a pit stop at Chapters on the way to the movies.  I searched high and low for the first book in the series.  Imagine my horror when I discovered they did not have it.  The closest they had was the 4^th and I was now set on reading them in order. 

What was I going to do?  I had no book to read.  I thought I would go home and order them online but what if they were sold out too.  That’s when I picked up The Hunger Games - The book that I am currently reading and interfering with my other series.  I am in the middle of 2 book series.  Really? Who am I?

When did this obsession with books start?  

As a kid I hated reading.  I could never understand why people read for fun.  Didn’t they understand that they could watch TV.  My mom used to always read in the same room that I was watching TV in.  It bugged me to no end.  Now I am becoming my mom more and more every day.

While writing this I’ve learned that the 11th book comes out May 7^th.  Challenge accepted to catch up by then. 

The Books in the series are:

• 1^st to Die (Ordered on Amazon)
• 2^nd Chance (Ordered on Amazon)
• 3^rd Degree (Ordered on Amazon)
• 4^th of July
• The 5^th Horseman
• The 6^th Target
• 7^th Heaven
• The 8^th Confession
• The 9^th Judgment (1^st book read)
• 10^th Anniversary (2^nd book read)
• 11^th hour (out May 7^th)