If I asked you what books you were grateful you read, you'd be able to name them instantly. You probably have one or two...or a dozen of these books. They're the ones on your Keepers Shelf; the ones that you stayed up all night to finish; the ones you go back to again and again.
I have quite a few. Let me share just two of the most dear to me.
Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home. by Sue Bender Sue Bender shares her journey into our world of "Never enough" to find a way of living with "just enough". I learned about the "begging bowl" that monks take with them every morning--empty. Whatever is placed in the bowl during the day becomes their sustenance. At the beginning of every day, they start again with an empty bowl That powerful metaphor for life has stayed with me since I read this over 10 years ago.
Airs Above the Ground. by Mary Stewart
Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, is propelled from London to Vienna by a shocking discovery--her husband is not where he said he would be. I went through my "Mary Stewart" period while I was in college and read every one of her books I could find in the public library. This is mystery, romance and a tale woven around the famous Lipizzaner horses. I have an original copy of this book in hardcover, and I still curl up with it when the evenings grow long and the fire is warm.
What book(s) are you grateful you read?
I am grateful for the Lord of the Rings and the Grisha trilogy. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
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DeleteI'm grateful I read Then and Always by Dani Atkins.
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DeleteI am grateful I read the hunger games, it was a really good book.
ReplyDeleteI'm very grateful to have read The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom a few years ago. It's such an inspiring account of her life and bravery.
ReplyDeleteThe Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris
ReplyDeleteJosh Sundquist's Just Don't Fall (inspirational with a good balance of sad and funny bits), and Adeline Yen Mah's Chinese Cinderella (subtitled as "The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter)
ReplyDeleteAdeline Yen Mah's Chinese Cinderella (subtitled The True Story of An Unwanted Daughter) and Josh Sundquist's Just Don't Fall (the story of his developing cancer as a kid, losing a leg, and going on to compete in the Paralympics)
ReplyDeleteThe Bible, God is Not Dead, and a mystery set in the Kansas City Plaza.
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the book that i really grateful to read is escorted by claire kent..
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I'm grateful that I read The Hardest Peace by Kara Tippetts.
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I'm so glad I asked this question for this hop! I'm getting a whole new list of books to put on my personal reading list. I'm on Goodreads, so I'm going to start recording these books on my To Read list. Thanks!!!
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The fault in our stars by John Green
ReplyDeleteThe Alchemist by Paolo Coelho!
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ReplyDeleteAll the books by D. Coupland
I am thankful to have read Chicken soup for the soul books
ReplyDeleteI am grateful for The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
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ReplyDeleteRecently, Howl's Moving Castle, which made me love the writing of DWJ :3
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Thanks so much for the giveaway and the chance to win
I'm really thankful to have read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.
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Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson!
ReplyDeleteFifty Shades of Grey because it completely changed my reading perspective! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteThe Lynburn Legacy series by Sarah Rees Brennan!
ReplyDeleteThe Scarlet Pimpernel
ReplyDeleteNice! I've got an old radio recording of Lesley Howard as The Pimpernel. Excellent portrayal.
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ReplyDeleteI am grateful for the true blood series
ReplyDeleteI'm really grateful for a lot of books but one that comes to mind is 'The Hobbit' which I read in 6th grade. It opened me up to the world of fantasy and I haven't stopped loving it since! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for all of the books I've read, but mostly Harry Potter for getting me into reading and Hunger Games for getting me into YA. Thanks for the giveaway! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Harry Potter and Hunger Games are Keepers in my house.
DeleteI am glad I read To Kill A Mockingbird.
ReplyDeleteAwesome book! Gregory Peck and the movie? Outstanding.
DeleteAbbi Glines' sea breeze series :)
ReplyDeleteI have to narrow it down a little. but... The best books I've read this year, the ones I'm really grateful for, are "Code Name Verity" and "Rose Under Fire" by Elizabeth Wein. My grandfather served during World War II so I grew up listening to his stories, and on a student trip to Europe we visited a concentration camp, so these books hold special significance to me.
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I these books on my To Read list, but the library copies are always out, LOL! Need to put a hold on them to reel them in.
DeleteI'm grateful to have read all of Jane Austen books. Thank you for the giveaway :)
ReplyDeleteJane Austen fan here, too! And I love reading the sequels modern writers have created. Just finished watching PD James' "Death Comes to Pemberly" on Masterpiece Mystery. Nice!
DeleteI'm grateful I read the perks of being a wallflower when I was a teenager
ReplyDeleteAnd the suggestions just keep pouring in! I love that the books are all over the literature map from genre to classics. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful that I read Matilda by Roald Dahl. It's one of the first books I read as a kid that I absolutely fell in love with, and I credit it for my love of reading.
ReplyDeleteThere are so very many. Bronze Horseman Series, Slammed and Point of Retreat Series by Colleen Hoover, Archers Voice by Mia Sheridan.....
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ReplyDeleteEnder's Game and Speaker of the Dead.
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The BDB by JR Ward, Midnight Breed series by Lara Adrian, Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews, Your Rulers of Darkness series, Guardians of eternity series by Alexandra Ivy, Knights of Black Swan series by Victoria Danann, Sons of Narvarus series by Gabrielle Bisset, to mention a few.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many! One that I read as a teen that I'm grateful for was Freckles by Jean Stratton-Porter. It was laying around at my Grandma's house and I was searching for something new to read and picked it up. I loved it :)
ReplyDeleteI liked The Outlander.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely grateful that I read The Bible and also The Diary of St. Faustina.
ReplyDeleteThis is so cool, Rose. I chose "Faustine" as my Confirmation name in honor of this saint (at the time, not canonized). Time for me to dive into her diaries.
DeleteI'm grateful for Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers, Sunshine by Robin McKinley, and Archangel by Sharon Shinn.
ReplyDeleteThe Others series by Anne Bishop.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful that I read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." It was an inspiring story
ReplyDeleteI am grateful I read all of Jane Austen's books especially Pride and Prejudice. I can't imagine a world without Mr. Darcy!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the Hunger Games trilogy, also the Mercedes Thompson series by Patricia Briggs.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for reading Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell. Thanks! :)
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I'm grateful to have read, "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger.
ReplyDeleteThe Great Lenore by J.M Tohline, The Black Jewels series and The Others series by Anne Bishop and the Chronicles of Elantra series by Michelle Sagara....and anything written by Ilona Andrews and Patricia Briggs!
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I'm grateful that I read The Hunger Games. Those books introduced me to YA. Now I can't get enough of it!
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for the Harry Potter and Outlander series.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I’m very grateful for the Twilight Saga because if it wasn't for this series I wouldn't love reading like I do now.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I love to hear, Lisa...what books got us hooked on reading. I was in the Nancy Drew era. Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga brought a whole new group of readers to the world of books!
DeletePride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!
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ReplyDeleteI am grateful to have read everything Robert B. Parker. He was such an amazing author. He was able to write a powerful, but succinct, sentence. This is a skill that is so rare for anyone to have. I grieved hard when he died and resent others who try to pick up his work - it just can't be done.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for the Twilight series because it really brought my younger sister and I closer together.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting the "So Many Books, So Little Time" feeling from all the suggestions. This is just marvelous!! Thanks for visiting, everyone!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful I read the Mythos Academy series by Jennifer Estep and thanks for the giveaway!! :)
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I read Blubber by Judy Blume.
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ReplyDeleteI am grateful to have read the Twilight Saga.
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I am grateful I read Love, Chocolate and Beer by Violet Duke.
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I'm grateful for Shel Silverstein's books! =)
ReplyDeleteThe main one that comes to mind is She Said Yes- the Columbine School Shooting book.
ReplyDeleteFull Measures by Rebecca Yarros. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for Anne of Green Gables, Cold Mountain, Alice's Tulips, the History of Love, the Language of Flowers, and Madonnas of Leningrad.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful I read the Bronze Horseman! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I have read The Dark Hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
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A book I'm grateful I read is "Follow The Sun" by James Savill; it was a great book with a lovely theme.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for reading the Little House series when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful I read “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. I love the books for both their humor and sense of adventure. Reading these books changed my outlook on life forever.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that I read this bridge called my back by gloria anzaldua and cherrie moraga, the book really change my life.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful I read Little House on the Prairie as a child, it's when my love for reading spawned!
ReplyDeleteChanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, and Needful Things by Stephen King.
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Go glad I read Arsen by Mia Asher!
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ReplyDeleteI'm grateful that I read :
ReplyDelete. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson
. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Thanks :)
(Alisha Sienkiel in rafflecopter)
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful to have read Harry Potter and Vampire Academy.