pick just one

1. When someone asks you what your favorite book is and expects you to pick just one.
當有人問你你最喜歡的書是哪一本，并且只讓你挑一本時。

interrupt your reading

2. When someone interrupts your reading.
當有人打擾你讀書時。

Do Not Disturb

Because, really, a book is basically a Do Not Disturb sign.
說真的，因為書是“請勿打擾”的標志。

movie version

3. When the movie version of a book gets everything wrong.
當書改編成的電影面目全非時。

mental images

4. And completely ruins your mental images of characters.
并且把你腦中對人物的想象全破壞了。

don’t like to read

5. When someone you like tells you they don’t like to read.
當你喜歡的人告訴你他們不喜歡讀書時。

forget to eat or sleep

6. When you forget to eat or sleep because a book is so good.
當一本好書讓你廢寢忘食時。

favorite character dies

7. When your favorite character dies.
當你最喜歡的主人公死掉時。

still alive

And you pretend they’re still alive but it’s just not the same.
你假裝他們還活著，但這只是自欺欺人。

harsh review

8. When a book you love gets a harsh review.
當一本你喜歡的書得到差評時。

stops writing mid-series

9. When an author stops writing mid-series.
當一位作家半途而廢時。

spoils the ending of a book

10. When someone spoils the ending of a book.
當有人劇透一本書的結(jié)局時。

the ending of an entire series

Or worse, the ending of an entire series.
或者更糟，是一個系列的結(jié)局時。

bookstore

11. When you walk into a bookstore.
當你走進一家書店時。

in terrible condition

12. When you lend someone a book and get it back in terrible condition.
當你借給別人一本書，他卻沒有保管的很好時。

never get it back

13. Or never get it back at all.
或者再也拿不回來。

wait a year

14. When you finish a book and have to wait a year for the sequel.
當你讀完了一本書，得在等一年才能看到續(xù)集時。

makes you cry

15. When a book makes you cry hysterically in public and everyone thinks you’re crazy.
當一本書讓你在公眾面前哭得歇斯底里，所有人都以為你瘋了時。

obscure literary reference

16. When no one gets your obscure literary reference.
當沒人聽懂你隱晦的文學典故時。

read too much

17. When someone says you read too much.
當有人說你讀的太多了時。

no such thing

Because you know there’s no such thing as too many books.
因為你知道永遠都不嫌多。