R&W: Thankful for BOOKS!

This will be another EMAIL swap, but as always, please just let me know if you would be interested in a snail mail version as well. :)

Thanksgiving in the USA is celebrated on the last Thursday of November. I believe Canada also has a Thanksgiving, celebrated in October (but my calendar isn't providing me with that date!) DO other countries have this holiday? Hmm... Not sure. Please let me know!

I love Thanksgiving - it's a day to stop and think of what we have and to be thankful for what we have in our life. (Well, to ME it's about thinking about what I have to be grateful for - to most it seems to be the day to start binging on Christmas and shopping! :( Not in my family!)

This year has been a challenge, am I right? But we all still have plenty to be thankful for. So I'm going to try a series of swaps here for us to recall what we have to be thankful for in life, and in this past year. We will start with books - cause, you know, why not?! :) - but I hope to do a series for other topics as well, if everyone is on board. :) I'm going to do these as email swaps, so everyone can easily join - mail is still a challenge in some parts of the world, sadly - but I'm always willing to do this as a snail mail swap as well, if anyone is interested.

In an EMAIL to your partner(s), please talk about at least 3 books you are thankful for from this year. Maybe it was a great escape from life, maybe it helped relax you when you were stressed. Maybe it was just a great story, or maybe it had been on your self, looking at you (as books do) saying 'read me, read me!' but you kept bringing home library books instead. So, this year, with libraries closed, you finally read the book and you really enjoyed it! :) (your books talk to you, too, right? It's not just me?) Or, maybe it is an old favorite that you re-read and took you to happier times.

Please list the title and author of the book and at least a sentence about why you are grateful for the book this year. If you have more you'd like to say about the book, please feel free to share more.

Have you read any books for challenges this year? Or a book group? Are you grateful for the challenges, or was it more of a problem than fun? Feel free to talk about that, too. :)

If anyone has other topics they'd like to see for this series, or if you have any questions/concerns, please Send me a PM and I'll reply just as soon as I can. :)

And I must say, I am grateful for all of you! All of you in this group keep me coming back to swap-bot & this is my happy place. :)