Top Ten Tuesday – Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books (In honour of Thanksgiving in the USA)

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Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, this week’s prompt is Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books (In honour of Thanksgiving in the USA). This is a tough one. I love books, but 10 different reasons will take some thinking! Here are the results of that thinking:

❣️They allow you to escape the everyday.

❣️They give you different perspectives on life.

❣️They impart knowledge and wisdom (depending on the reading material of course!).

❣️They make great gifts.

❣️They are good conversation starters (depending on the group of people that you are with!).

❣️They can bring people together.

❣️They can start/change the course of your life.

❣️They give people a voice.

❣️They help to create memories (being read to as a child).

❣️They are fun!

What reasons are on your list?

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54 thoughts on “Top Ten Tuesday – Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books (In honour of Thanksgiving in the USA)”

  4. Susan

    Great reasons! I love them all. I’ve had great conversations with all kinds of people – my doctors, strangers, neighbors, other people sitting in waiting rooms, etc. because of books. “What are you reading?” is a great question to start a conversation!

    BTW: I mentioned you in my list today 🙂

    Happy TTT!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

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  11. Leah's Books

    I love all of these reasons! Some of my earliest memories are of being read to as a kid, and of carrying my favorite book around everywhere. And they are the absolute best way to escape when everyday life becomes too much … or when it isn’t enough 😂 Sorry for the late visit, but I’m American, so it’s been a bit of a hectic week over here. Enjoy your weekend!

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    1. Emily Jane Post author

      No need to apologise at all! I hope you had a lovely time. Over Christmas if I so much as look at my phone in front of others there are comments (and when I say Christmas that starts on Christmas Eve through to at least the day after Boxing Day!) 😂

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      3. Leah's Books

        I don’t celebrate Christmas, since we’re Jewish, but in the last few years, we’ve shifted from hosting to going to my brother’s house. My sister-in-law is a fantastic cook, and it gives the blended family a chance to catch up. There’s a huge parade in NYC that’s televised, so we watched that in the background, and then had an early dinner and just relaxed, but it was such a nice time.

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      6. Emily Jane Post author

        😂 that’s good. I hear of people travelling miles. My mum lives a 15 min drive away, my dad 30 mins and my sister 1 hour 30. But then the UK is a fairly small Island in comparison to some places!

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      7. Leah's Books

        He’s about a half hour away, not too bad. The rest of my family is pretty spread out though – we have to fly to see most of them! I heard something cool that completely makes sense: people from America think 100 years is a long time, people from the UK think 100 miles is a long distance 😂

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      8. Emily Jane Post author

        😂 100 miles is a long distance 😂 my sister lives an hour and a half/ 2 hours away and we rarely go there because of the distance. Mainly because our son isn’t really one for the car and we now have a 4 month old but still 😂 I can’t imagine having to actually fly to places 😂

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      9. Leah's Books

        Well, it’s really different traveling with kids! But to us, 100 miles is nothing. Where I went to college was a 4 hour drive away, and I would come home every month or two to visit with family, do laundry, and get that good home-cooked food. Most of my family lives a plane ride away!

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      11. Leah's Books

        OMG bahahahahahahaha here it’s definitely a bit of a different mindset. It’s an hour drive to NYC from where I am, and that’s on a good day, but we’ve gone just for a doctor appointment or to go for a show or shopping!

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      12. Emily Jane Post author

        Unacceptable travel time 🤣😂 if we get stuck in traffic shopping then that’s a bit different but we wouldn’t do it on purpose 🤣 when I lived with my mum I could walk into town in 45 mins – drive it in 15 (with no traffic!!). Our Drs was in the next Village so that was again a 15 min drive away 😂

        Depending on where we go shopping up to 45 mins 🤣

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      13. Leah's Books

        Everything we need is really within a 15 minute ride where I am, but if we want to get fancy, we can always go to the city. But as I’ve gotten older, it takes more out of my to schlep to Manhattan.

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      14. Emily Jane Post author

        That’s not too bad. Hmmm nearest City to me is Rochester. We call any place that has a Cathedral a City so it’s only small 🤣 London otherwise is nearest us as the Capital City. We have shops and that fairly near us. We are fairly rural as a place though.

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      16. Emily Jane Post author

        I imagine Manhattan to be big. I’ll have to Google it – little village UK person that I am 😂🤣 our towns are sad. Shops are closing down all the time. The only thing that really survives is a coffee shop. We do love those!!

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      18. Emily Jane Post author

        Oh that’s sad. We have some really cute shops it’s just they are in-between closed, empty ones 😔

        Haha that’s a nice image. A lot of people drink coffee (well lattes, cappuccinos that sort of thing 😂). Maybe it’s why only coffee shops are the main survivors. People get takeaway drinks on the way to work and lunch too. London places suffered a bit when people worked from home because they were no longer being visited.

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      23. Emily Jane Post author

        We have a joke here that there are more potholes than road. It’s awful. Our roads are small but well used. I suppose it’s the fact that households often have more than one car.

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