Friday, July 11, 2014

Nerdy People

Hello, folks.

Last night I had an interesting discussion with a fellow creative writer.  We talked about nerds.

It's always fun to talk about your own kind, right?  We humans are a self-centered race, are we not?

Questions, questions.

We agreed in the end that everyone is a nerd about something, because everyone gets excited about something.  Face it, there are even nail polish nerds, even though I don't pretend to understand why.

I, of course, am a book nerd.
I did this before lol. Only book nerds will understand
This is moi.
Not only am I a book nerd, I am a specific type of book nerd.  As my friend put it last night, I am up on pop culture from about two hundred years ago.  For example, I am currently reading Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and immensely enjoying it as I zip through it.  This is easy reading to me.  I know I'm not alone here.

But then there are book nerds who read more modern stuff, like I don't even know what.  Is Hunger Games even modern any more?  Clearly I am not well-informed about these things, even though several people are trying to bring me slightly up to date.  (This happened after I asked who Chuck Norris was, only to receive stares of amused incredulity from the people around the lunch table at where I sat.)  Now I have someone who is trying to get me into comics.

Good *luck* with that.

The lines blur between these people and the TV show nerds, better known as fangirls.  How quaint.

fangirling so hard about bones season 7 right now

Wow.  I simply sit in awe of these people, because how they do it is beyond me.  While I involve myself in a story, I'm usually more interested in the characterization and the writing style and the plot development.  It takes a FANTASTIC book to get me to forget that it's a story.  I fangirl over writing styles.  What can I say?  And I'll still analyze everything after I read it.  Silly me.

Then there are those miscellaneous nerds, like computer nerds, etc.  I still maintain, though, that everyone is a nerd about SOMETHING.

So tell me, folks.  What sort of nerd are you?

Thanks for reading, and God bless,
Kathryn

2 comments:

  1. With you all the way on this one, Kathryn!! I'm the book-sniffing, novel-hording, story-analyzing, character-development-loving nerd. Dickens, Austen, Twain, Tolkien, Lewis... that's me. :)

    I still don't understand fangirls....

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  2. I'm a book nerd for sure, I love books and devour them! I never have enough room on my bookshelves. I enjoy the classics, but I also really like the newer YA stuff, not all of it of course, some of it is terrible.

    I'm also a bit of a fangirl. All fangirls are, are people who get really excited about a TV show, it's just like getting super excited about a book. Instead of fangirling over the writing style, they may fangirl over the plot, the character development, etc. I personally don't understand the fangirls who fangirl over actor's and their appearances, that seems a bit shallow to me. It takes a really good show to get me excited, but still I'm one of the more casual fangirls.

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