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Reading Like a Writer (P.S.)

  Francine Prose
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Reading Like a Writer (P.S.)

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  • 32//⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️// Still playing catch up on my book posts. A book like Foe is exactly why I love book subscriptions! This was my September Shelf Subscription from @bookshelftville. I would have never chosen this title on my own and I ended up loving it! I’m not going to give any summary because I didn’t know the plot going in and I was glad for it. If you’ve read this one, I’d love to discuss! #staceyreads2018 #shelfsubscription #bookshelftville
  • 31//⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️// I am so behind in my book posts. Somehow I get totally stuck when I’ve read a book on my Kindle and I start overthinking and then I don’t post and on and on. So... playing a bit of catch up. Give Me Your Hand was a fun page turner. Definitely recommend. #staceyreads2018
  • #10thingstotellyou Prompt # 3: A thing that changed my worldview is… books. I know this is the most predictable response ever but what’s a reader to do? I don’t travel a ton and I haven’t lived in too many places. I expand my world through reading. Sometimes I do better than others. Sometimes I branch out and read books that introduce me to people and places that I wouldn’t otherwise know. Sometimes, I seek comfort and read about people just like me. Sometimes my comfort comes from genres that I know well- literary fiction, middle grade and thrillers. Sometimes, I dig into a book of essays and ever so occasionally I’ll try out a short story or two. I do struggle with non-fiction. I know these books would open up my worldview even wider but this is a genre that I find to be more work than joy. For this picture, I walked quickly through the house and chose a few books I have loved both in the past and in the present. These are not necessarily all time favorites but I am busy yet determined to stick with this daily challenge so I am embracing ‘done is better than perfect’ for today. #10thingstotellyou I am joining the amazing Laura Tremain of 10 Things to Tell You in her latest Instagram challenge #10thingstotellyou. Laura will provide the prompts and we provide the conversation. Her goal is to get people to "share the things about yourself that usually get glossed over. They type of things you want friends to know, but for some reason never come up."
  • Prompt #2: Someone who has influenced me… Someone who influenced me is my grandmother, Dammy. She chose to be Grammy but when I was little, I replaced my /gr/ sound with /d/. Long after I mastered the correct sounds, forever in fact, she was Dammy to me. This was really only a problem when I was young, sitting in a shopping cart. When she picked produce from the bin a bit down the aisle, I lost sight of her and called out, in my toddler voice, ‘Dam!’ “Dam!” She talked about the looks she received from fellow shoppers until the day she died. We always lived close to my grandparents, first a short drive away and then just a walk. Dammy and Dampy (ideally Grampy but now you know the story) were both ever present when I was young but it is Dammy who fills so many of my childhood memories. I am a reader because of all the stories both Mom and Dad read to me but also the time Dammy spent reading poem after poem, like the Swing and The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson and then the Dutch Twins over and over again. As I grew, she was my research partner, going to the public library while I was in school checking out every book on the topic of my latest school project. As a teenager and young adult, her love started to feel a bit more like nagging. I needed a proper winter coat or a better purse or enough dramamine for my trip to Europe. But now that I have become the ‘nagger’ instead of the ‘naggee’, it is clear she loved me and influenced me right to the end. #10thingstotellyou I am joining the amazing Laura Tremain of 10 Things to Tell You in her latest Instagram challenge #10thingstotellyou. Laura will provide the prompts and we provide the conversation. Her goal is to get people to "share the things about yourself that usually get glossed over. They type of things you want friends to know, but for some reason never come up."

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