Posted by Verbally, I am not particularly articulate; I walk around a story when I try to tell one. It’s not that I don’t understand my emotions, or others, I just find it difficult to express them in their given situations i.e. you may find me laughing at funerals, or experiencing ‘Bitchy Resting Face’ on fun nights out.
Bitchy Resting Face:
While I dislike the term ‘Bitchy Resting Face’ it does accurately communicate that while I (and my fellow sufferers) may look bored/upset/annoyed we’re not, we are just internalising rather than expressing.
How does this relate to books? Books are the medium from which my emotions flow, sometimes I experience more emotionally from a book than a moment in real life. Books can reduce me to heavy tears or raucous laughter; I look forward to leaping into them, for my attention to be carried away by their stories or absorbed by their facts.
Bitchy resting face! LOL! I have been told that I look expressionless while reading like my soul has left my body or something. And when it’s a funny book I tend to smile/laugh out loud (which is not so great if I happen to be in public at the time)
I think that is a look of deep concentration and immersion into a world, that people often misconstrue to be boredom, anger etc..
(I laugh out loud at books in public too, it’s embarrassing XD)
When you’re not looking how you ‘should’ look and someone asks you if you’re ok…
I expect a person probably could tell a bit about me from seeing me read. That said I’ve no idea how I come across (I hope it’s deep in thought!) They don’t always have a big impact on me, but they can make me laugh and on occasion cry.
I think I just look annoyed when I read. When I was in school my form tutor used to say I looked like I was frowning.
I think I’m fairly animated in conversation, but I don’t have hardly any reaction to books as I’m reading them. Very, very occasionally I’ll cry, and even occasionally-er I’ll laugh out loud, but mostly I’m a staid reader.
My emotional reading opposite!
Books aren’t necessarily a window into my soul. But without books, my soul is a whole lot bitchier!
Haha! I’d not thought of it that way, very interesting and very funny.
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