15 Signs You’ve Found Your Book BFF

Every so often in life, you meet that special someone who causes you to wonder if you’re two halves of one same soul. Someone who is more than just a lover or an everyday friend. Someone who is constantly in your thoughts, who contributes to your life daily, and who knows your tastes inside out. Someone who you trust to answer the most important question of all time: “What should I read?”
Your Book BFF is that special someone. A Book BFF is a friend who shares your taste in books, a friend who reads as much as you and as fast as you and knows exactly what to recommend. A Book BFF is a friend who is your beacon of literary light when you’re unmoored in a sea of books, unsure of what to read.
It’s hard to find your literary match in this crazy world, so we’re sharing our advice on finding the One (at least when it comes to books). Here are 15 signs someone is your Book BFF:
1. You’re always the first person they lend a book to after they’ve read it.
2. They’re always the first person you lend a new book to after you’ve read it.
3. All your tweets, posts, emails, and texts to each other are book-related.
4. You’re always each other’s dates to readings by favorite authors.
5. Whenever you catch up after not having seen each other for a while, you immediately say, “What are you reading these days?”
6. When you’re at a bookstore deciding between two books, your Book BFF will tell you to get one and they’ll get the other. You can swap when you’re done.
7. They never fail to return the books you lend them, but they never nag you about returning theirs.
8. You always have at least one of their books on your shelf, and they always have one of yours.
9. You’re perfectly content to sit next to each other silently reading. In fact, you consider that “hanging out.”
10. The last book that made you cry? They recommended it.
11. The last book that made you laugh? They also recommended it.
12. The first thing you do in each other’s homes is peruse your respective bookshelves.
13. If you’ve both read the same book, they always ask you for your opinion first, before they weigh in with theirs.
14. They’re the only person in the world who can convince you to give a book a second chance, after you already decided you don’t like it.
15. You’ve nicknamed each other “My Michiko” (after New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani).
Who is your Book BFF?