I'm reading a fantastic book called "The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life. How to get more books in your life and more life from your books." It is written by Steve Leveen, and I picked it up randomly at the local library. I say randomly, because nobody recommended it and it wasn't on my "to read" list. The title just caught my eye as I was browsing the shelves. If there's one thing I want in life, it is more time to read. I could sit in a bookstore or library for days on end and never get bored. Could you?
Are you currently in "book love"? According to Steve Leveen, "[b]ook love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness."
This month let's write about a time we were in book love.
Your Task:
1. Think of a time you were in book love. What what were you reading? Use the first book that comes to mind.
2. Open a blog post. Use the title "Writing Challenge #28: Book Love".
3. Tell us the title, author, and genre of the book you were in love with.
4. Tell us when/where you were when you first read the book. (It doesn't have to be the exact day or year, but what stage of life were you in?)
5. Summarize the book or share a favourite part.
6. If you have the book, share a favourite quote from it.
7. Come back to this blog and share a link to your post.
8. Visit other book love posts and leave a comment. Will you read the books that others have recommended?
My Example: Book Love
Title: Kingfisher Days
Author: Susan Coyne
Genre: Memoir
When and where I read this book: I read this book in 2003 when I had just moved from Vancouver to the Okanagan. I was in a new town where I didn't know a soul. Books were my main friends. This little book was on a shelf in the library where the librarians placed recommended books. I took it home and devoured it. When I finished the book, I prayed that I would have a daughter one day. I just had to read it to my own little girl! Within a few weeks, I was pregnant with my daughter.
Summary: This is a memoir about one summer in a woman's childhood. The five-year-old goes to an Ontario cottage for the summer and discovers a little fireplace. Her father tells her that this fireplace belongs to the "little people". One day she find a little note from a fairy called Nootsie Tah Princess. The fairy and Susan write back and forth throughout the summer. Susan shares her special relationship with an elderly neighbour who lives in the next cottage over. Mr. Moir and Susan share a very special friendship and Susan learns how precious the written word is.
Favourite quote: "How does it feel, Susan, when you put a few marks on a white sheet of paper, to have a new kingdom and all its people rise up in front of you?"
Note: This past summer my own daughter began corresponding with Tinkerbell in our back garden. She built furniture for the fairies and waited for notes and fairy dust. It was fun to see this story come to life in my own backyard.
Your turn!
Comments
p.s.:Anne,your post is great,just as I've told you before!
Thank you for sharing here!
Dear Anne,
I found it,it was Natasha's beatiful post here.
Hi dear Tara!
This month writing challenge is a real fascination for me,I'm so glad about your selection of this topic.
I always like to read about books,and now I have to take out my notebook,to write up the lots of interesting titeles on my to-read-list.
I surely will include your shared book:The Kingfisher Days,I have to admit that I didn't know this book before(but I remember that you have spoken about it already in the Reading activity blog of Anne of the Green Gables).I have to get this book,for sure.
I wrote about Jodi Picoul's My sister's keeper,which became my latest 'love'...
Thank you very much for this very interesting challenge,I really enjoyed to take part in it!
Hi Tara,
I like this challenge very much because I'm fond od reading. And I'd like to tell everyone about the book that has just become one of my my favourite one. Here is the link: http://my.englishclub.com/profiles/blogs/writing-chalenge-28-book-love
Hi dear Tara!
Thanks a lot for the nice idea. Books are the best friends of us.
I liked your example. So nice. It's always interesting to read books on kids' world. It's so nice that your pure prayer was granted within weeks after being touched by such a story. So touching.
Anyway, here is My Book Love.
Thanks for the unique topic. I really like the way you make your topics unique.Thanks for being so encouraging to us.You bring joy to all of us.
Have all the best,
With Peace and Love
:)
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