List three books that have had an impact on you. Why?
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I did unplug for a bit. It was nice. It’s a good exercise for me to unplug because writing a blog and media are saving me on one hand, but like anything addictive, balance is important for me to keep in mind.
Speaking of saving me.
I’ve read sooo many books in my lifetime. Usually I get bowled over and completely engrossed in books. “Impacted” is a good way to describe it.
As a kid, when I didn’t feel understood, especially when I was new to a school and looking for friends, I found them in books. Characters who inspired me, characters who I felt like I could relate to, characters who were humble heros in their relatable life dramas. Even if I couldn’t relate, I would think I could. I was lucky enough to read really great authors, who at the time I did not know were. I didn’t know about classic literature. I just binge read. The gift of a brain that hears in pictures, my imagination was always pushed pasted the limits of my regular life. I like that.
Three actual books out of a million? Here are the ones that come to mind this morning.
From childhood: Peter Rabbit, Babar, Make Way for Ducklings, Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, Little Princess, Secrat Garden, Ribsy, Are You there God it’s Me Margret, Tails of a Forth Grade Nothing. Anne Frank. Helen Keller (there’s no way I can stop at three)
As an adult, long after I used Ciff notes to write all my essays, (because my conclusions were never what my teachers were looking for), Anna Karenena, A Tress Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre… I could go on
But I won’t
Most books impact me. They always have and they probably always will.
Peace Kit 
I’m in a bit of a conundrum as far as books, someone I knew in high school has written a memoir, and, Brad’s a little more graphic then I’m interested or comfortable with, am seriously not sure I want to finish it, but feel that I should…
but reading, has always been a habit…interesting thing, growing up I always listened to music as I read, and now when I hear a certain tune, I’ll be reminded of that part of a book…..the Fleetwood Mac white album does that a lot…..I’m so afraid, Crystal, Landslide, the Lord of the Rings……there was a band called the Hometown Band does that often too…….junior high I was hooked on everything James Bond, Ian Fleming, not the movies….a novelization of a movie called FM, Dr Zhivago, read it after seeing the movie…book was better, but knowing that what took part at the time of that story was about the time my maternal grandparents were escaping Ukraine/Russia, the story holds a lot of meaning…..
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