I think it must be Thanksgiving for our Southern neighbours around now, so this week’s prompt is “thankful.” I’m not big on Thanksgiving in general because the whole history thing, plus it wasn’t ever much of a thing in my family. But the concept of being thankful in general is something I try to hold onto year round. So here are some books I’m thankful for reading recently because they’ve helped me through a rough time, they’ve taught me something or they are just brilliant reads:
The Great Unexpected by Dan Mooney
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan
Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Scatter Brain by Shaparak Khorsandi
I’ll Show Myself Out by Jessi Klein
These are a very diverse collection of books and what I appreciated about each one is different. But they each connected with me in one way or another – and left me feeling like I wished I could read it again for the first time. A great collection of books by some truly talented authors (and yes, I’m aware Lucy Mangan is on here twice – but one is a fictional account of modern motherhood, while the other is a memoir of her childhood reading, so they’re totally different but both excellent).
What about you guys? Have you read any of these? Did you like them as much as I did? Any you would like to read? Which books are you grateful to have read this year (for whatever reason you choose)?
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up feature created by The Broke and the Bookish and hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every week TTT has a different topic, and everyone who links up has to create a link of ten items that fit that topic. To see past and upcoming topics, go here.
