Well, this is about to get interesting! I've been feeling the need to revamp my bookshelves gradually creeping up, so maybe this will inspire me to get started. It is a little hard to "randomly" grab when my shelves are organized by genre and/or TBR--I should maybe just grab from the TBR shelves--books I haven't wanted to read in years but haven't wanted to give awayðŸ˜...
The First 10 Books I Randomly Grabbed From my Shelf (Stand in front of your book collection, close your eyes, point to a title, and write it down. If you have shelves, point to your physical books.)
- The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien--I own multiple editions, but the one I randomly pointed to is the beautiful gold-edged hardback from the LOTR set my husband bought me for our first anniversary.
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey--My husband's stepmom gave this to him, and I'm still the only one of us who's read it. Fairly obvious but helpful.
- Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed--I loved the Dear Sugar column, which a good friend turned me onto, and I bought the paperback when it came out. I flip through this so often, I think I've memorized most of the columns, particularly The Ghost Ship That Didn't Carry Us, the one about the girls no one was coming to save but Desiree made it, the one about her friend who was burned, the Planet My Baby Died one, Wanting to Leave Is Enough, the magic sparkle glue one, and of course, Write Like a Motherf*cker. Does any of that make sense to anyone else, lol?
- Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir by various authors--Also one I flip through, slightly less often, but I like hearing about the different life journeys of different people.
- A Politics of War coursebook from one of my husband's college classes
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck--A book that has been recommended to me strongly by multiple people, and I have yet to get around to
- Crossline by Russ Colchamiro--Handsold to me by the author at a Star Trek convention, but I have yet to read it
- Victims and Neighbors by Frances Henry--Bought it in a used bookstore for research on a novel I have since abandoned, but the lesson of this nonfiction book about the Jews in one German town during WWII stuck with me--the people who survived were those closest to their nonJewish neighbors. I wrote the author to thank her for writing the book--she survived as a young child.
- Siddur Lev Shalem--My copy of my synagogue's current siddur
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini--A book I really wanted, and my husband bought for me, and I still haven't read
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