Happy Thanksgiving, what book are you most thankful for?

[David P. Spears II]

Greetings,

I did not see any Thanksgiving posts so I thought I would start my own. It is a day late I know but I was too busy eating yesterday to post anything. It's hard to say what book I am most thankful for but it might be Tolkien’s Lord of Rings trilogy. I was very young when I first read it and it was the book that introduced me to how amazing fiction can be. I was very swept up into the story after his terribly slow start. It opened up the world of books to me.

David Spears
http://www.iservenovel.com/

[Michele Paiva]

Hello:

The book I am most thankful for is a wide topic; in whole, I am thankful for freedom of speech, so that I can decide which books to read and not read, even if they are against the grain of the mass society or touch upon uncomfortable issues.
However, I remember as a child loving "The Giving Tree" and it still rings true.
I also have my fathers NBC Handbook which is unique - and I collect books with artwork by the Wyeths... so though not literary in most senses, the reasons I am thankful for the books cross senses.

Michele Paiva
www.michelepaiva.com

[Bernice McFadden]

Dear Book Lover:

Join Actress Kimberly Elise (Beloved, Diary of a Mad Black Woman) in celebrating Sugar's 10th Anniversary!

“Bernice L. McFadden's first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor's daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. "The murder had white man written all over it," writes McFadden. "But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?" In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome "business" in the house next door, she doesn't know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar's face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose--rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character--the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying.”

I’m asking that you purchase a copy of SUGAR for yourself, a friend or family member. And yes, KINDLE purchases count.

If you could help spread the word by blogging, twittering and Face-booking my campaign, it would mean the world to me.


Peace & Light,

Bernice L. McFadden
www.bernicemcfadden.com
www.firstborngirl.blogspot.com
www.amazon.com
www.B&N.com

[David P. Spears II]

Hmmmmm...... Did I miss the part where you are thankful for a book?