Being a bookworm means:

1. Mourning the end of a fabulous novel and needing some alone time to recover: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.

2. Bombarding others with interesting tidbits at social gatherings: Outliers, Malcom Gladwell.

3. Learning to see the world anew: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Gandhi.

4. Being annoyed by hunger (and other basic bodily functions) because you can’t bear to put the book down until you know who did it: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie.

5. Delighting in contemplation: Socrates Buddha Confucius Jesus, Karl Jaspers.

6. Feeling utter disdain by absolute bullshit that passes for “good”: Twilight, Stephenie Meyer