Thankfully Reading Weekend: Mini-Challenge #1
Our first challenge for Thankfully Reading Weekend is to
“Write a post about the book you are most thankful for. This could be a book released this year or twenty years ago. Your post should include why you are thankful for that book.”
There is no one single book that I am thankful for; there are many. There’s the wonderful Charlotte’s Web, the first book I owned, that fueled my love of reading.
There’s A Wrinkle in Time, the book that has made time travel stories my favorite genre whether scifi, fantasy, romance or otherwise. 
And then there’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which I have been listening to this week and just finished up today, which has given me more information than I ever knew was available on farming and eating healthy foods. Because of what I learned I bought, for the first time, a local, farm raised turkey for our holiday meal yesterday. 
This was absolutely the most delicious turkey I’ve ever eaten.
I am thankful most of all for what books can teach me.
Under My Apple Tree 
A WRINKLE IN TIME was on at least one other post. I really need to reread it. I still have my childhood copy of Charlotte’s Web. Since I don’t have any daughters, I’m hoping at least one of my boys fall in love with it!
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oh great list!
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Wonderful list! I loved Charlotte’s web so much when I was a little girl. I’m glad that there wasn’t a movie out to spoil it (the reading of it) then. 🙂
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Oh, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle! I loved that book. I thought that it was so very interesting. I think of it every time I buy bananas. Hasn’t stopped me, but has made me think!
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Oh me too. I buy local when I can, and I have a garden in the summer, but there are no local avocados where I live and I’m not giving them up.
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Isn’t that exactly the truth? I’m thankful more than anything that I CAN read and that I can choose WHAT I read. How blessed we are!
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That’s the second time I’ve seen A Wrinkle in Time. It made a huge impact on many people. Charlotte’s Web is wonderful. I haven’t yet read the Kingsolver book.
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I bawled like a baby when I read Charlotte’s Web.
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I never really loved Charlottes Web- but I still read it almost every year with my classroom (maybe that is why I don’t love it… I may have loved it once but now it is overplayed!)
I have to agree with Wrinkle in Time though- great great book
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Charlotte’s Web and A Wrinkle in Time were two books I remember fondly as well. I have Animal, Vegetable, Miracle but haven’t gotten to it yet. I’ll have to get it out and give it a go. Great choices!
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It really was hard to pick just one book! I still remember watching the Charlotte’s Web movie in school, and I loved A Wrinkle in Time.
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I have got to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. I have heard so many wonderful things about that book…
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My favorite first line of a book was from Charlotte’s Web! Great list!
have a great weekend!
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Great picks! I loved A Wrinkle in Time as a child, and I’m looking forward to re-reading a lot of L’Engle’s work in 2011. I adore time travel stories! I’m currently reading Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, and I’ve read all her other novels – but I haven’t read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle yet.
Happy reading!
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