Article: You Should Date A Girl Who Reads

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Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Article: You Should Date An Illiterate Girl

I have a printed copy of this article given by a good friend of mine, Evernice. If you happen to like this article, I think you'll like Date A Girl Who Writes as well. Read it here.

You Should Date Am Illiterate Girl by Charles Warnke

Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her smiling. Make sure that it lingers when the people that are talking to her look away. Engage her with unsentimental trivialities. Use pick-up lines and laugh inwardly. Take her outside when the night overstays its welcome. Ignore the palpable weight of fatigue. Kiss her in the rain under the weak glow of a streetlamp because you’ve seen it in film. Remark at its lack of significance. Take her to your apartment. Dispatch with making love. Fuck her.

Let the anxious contract you’ve unwittingly written evolve slowly and uncomfortably into a relationship. Find shared interests and common ground like sushi, and folk music. Build an impenetrable bastion upon that ground. Make it sacred. Retreat into it every time the air gets stale, or the evenings get long. Talk about nothing of significance. Do little thinking. Let the months pass unnoticed. Ask her to move in. Let her decorate. Get into fights about inconsequential things like how the fucking shower curtain needs to be closed so that it doesn’t fucking collect mold. Let a year pass unnoticed. Begin to notice.

Article: Date A Girl Who Writes

“Or better yet, date a girl who writes”…ends Rosemarie Orquico’s articles on Dating a Girl Who Reads. So here it goes…..

Date a girl who writes. Date a girl who spends her money not only on a single, definite collection or passion like “clothes only” or “books alone” but on a variety of things—-from a quirky shirt made by 4-6 year old children at a local orphanage, a lavender scarf woven by a mother of eight who has been a widow since half of her kids were able to understand that their father will never come back, a spur-of-the-moment trip to a far flung island whose caves are said to be haunted by a sea nymph, a 5 o’clock am breakfast in a 50-year old Chinese restaurant on a dusty corner on a downtown boulevard which serves the best fried rice… the list can go on and on. And notice that every time she spends, what she buys are not only the items or the experience but also the tiny details and countless stories of lives and experiences that she can weave perfectly into words.

Must Read Books

Books have the tendency to bring me to a different world. I can survive an entire day sitting in the corner with a good book. The world inside every story is all exciting and fun. I put my self in every character's shoes. I grew up reading Archie Comics, Sweet Valley High and Nancy Drew. Until Harry Potter came along. Yes, HP is my childhood. I have the entire collection of J.K Rowling's book. Then, Nicholas Sparks' novels made me fall in love with every story. Twilight made me want for a vampire boyfriend. 
My mom would buy me one book every month. She's that supportive and I guess I get that from her. When I'm inside a bookstore, I am like a child inside a toy store. I don't know what shelf to start; what book to pick and what to buy. I happened to wish that I have loads of money to buy every books inside a bookstore. 
I am a full-pledged bookworm. I read during my spare time. Books, magazines, novels and even blogs. AND aside from my wallet and phone, the thing you can find in my bag is A GOOD BOOK :)