Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is a Thanksgiving freebie — so we can each come up with our own take on something we’re thankful for this year.
This time around, I thought I’d keep it simple and just talk about why I love having a book group and friends who love books. I’m not actually doing ten… just the top things that come to mind when I think about the bookish people in my life.
1. I’ve read so many books over the years thanks to my book group — books that I might not have picked up on my own, as well as classics that I might never have gotten around to without the group to motivate me.
2. I’m an introvert — but put me in a room or across a table from someone who’s a reader, and the conversation flows.
3. I’m thankful that my family members include people who love books as much as I do… and for those that don’t, they tolerate my bookish obsessions, which is nice too.
4. I’m thankful for all the amazing book bloggers I’ve met since starting my blog seven years ago! Thanks to all of you, I’ve engaged in fantastic discussions, considered new ideas, discovered so many amazing books, and have found a true community.
5. It’s thrilling to have friends who will geek out with me over the latest book in a series, or will share my terror that something bad will happen to a character I love.
6. I love having friends who will go with me to a used bookstore just because it’s there. Do we know how to have fun or what?
7. It’s great going to a silent reading party with people who will sit silently beside me and read their own books and not talk to me… and walk out when it’s done talking about what a great time we all had!
8. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without giving a big shout-out of appreciation to the public library, indie bookstores, and most especially, to the nonprofit organizations who focus on reading, books, and literacy. There are so many ways to share our love of reading while making a difference in the world! (Check out this list on Goodreads to get started.)
As a booklover, there’s so much to feel thankful for, this year and always! What books or bookish things are you most grateful for this Thanksgiving week?
Please share your thoughts, and if you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!
Lovely list, Lisa! 2 really resonated with me – the older I get the more difficult I find it to meet new people, but if I meet someone else who’s a book lover I can talk to them for hours.
Oh yes, my other family members make fun of me when I’m being quiet socially and then someone mentions Outlander or another book I love… and suddenly, i can’t stop talking!
Yes! The public library. I am so-so-so thankful for them!
I’m the same sort of introvert! Funny!
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We introverts have to stick together (but give each other plenty of space too.) 🙂
I am so thankful for all the thrift stores that sell books…….I could spend hours going through all the books and only spend a couple of dollars! 🙂
Absolutely! I love finding hidden treasures among the used books.
I am so thankful for the online book club that introduced me to the Lymond Chronicles. I never would have found Dorothy Dunnett on my own.
I’ve read so many great books because of the encouragement of my book group friends!
I agree with so many on your list. 😍
There’s just so much to feel thankful for as a reader. 🙂
The perfect list of reasons to be thankful for bookish people! I am so glad you have these wonders to be thankful for!
Thanks! It’s nice to take stock of all the people and places that make my reading life so much better.
I think a book group would be fun, but not one where we all read the same thing, I’m too picky and don’t want to read things I’m not interested in. But just to sit and talk with them, that’s actually something I love about working at a bookstore. Fun list!
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Ah, I loved my days working at a bookstore! But I always came home with way too many books. 🙂
I’m part of a book group where we have a loose category or theme instead of a set book, which I live because I can follow my own interests but also be encouraged and inspired by others’ choices too.
Interesting and wonderful post, Lisa💜 Thanks for sharing so much of yourself.
Thank you!
Joining a book club is one thing I have never done, although my friends and I have a group chat so we can fangirl about books all the time, so thats sort of similar? 😉
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I’d say that counts! I used to have a book group at work that was really fun, but it dwindled away after a while when we were just all too busy to continue. My online book group is so special and wonderful, and we not only read great books together, we also have become really good (virtual) friends.
I love libraries and bookstores! I don’t know what I’d do without them. The book blogging community is awesome, too, of course.
I feel like being part of the book blogging community has really opened up my world in so many ways!
Such a lovely post! I’ve never been in a book club, but it’s on my bucket list! 🙂
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It can take some trying to find one that works for you — I used to have one at work, which was fun for a while, but then we all just got too busy and it started feeling like an obligation, so we disbanded. My current book group is online only, but I still feel like I know these people and we’re all good friends (as well as being able to share our love of reading), so it’s been a great experience.
Oh that’s lovely. Maybe I can give an online book group a try first! 🙂
Good luck!