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From the prompts pages - Journal Prompt at BellaOnline February 23rd - This week is Read Me Week celebrating books that are "must reads". If you had to choose only three books that are important to you, which would you choose? Why? What life lessons or meaning have you found in them?
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This is hard for me because I've read tons and tons of books over the years and each has been important for different reasons.
That being said I *adore* the Lord of the Rings stories and re-read them many, many times. I always wanted to be like Aragorn - doing what's right, staying in the background, helping others quietly. So I love those stories.
Pride & Prejudice is another one I read and re-read, which reminds me not to make assumptions about people.
For the third? I don't know. I only read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged once but it did make a huge impact on me. It talked about the power of creativity and the drive to bring improvements into the world.
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Hmmm, only three??
Anything by SARK, Julia Cameron and an Art Journaling book of some kind to look at and draw inspiration.
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The art journaling idea is very cool!! Do you make vision boards?
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My top three books: Lord of the Rings, way ahead of anything else, first and foremost! I can finish reading it, then turn right around and start it again. It's pretty much my bible.  Then Watership Down. Then the original Dragonriders of Pern Trilogy. (Dragonflight, Dragonquest, the White Dragon).
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The Bible - talk about a book that always has something to say!
Lord of the Rings - oh yes...lovely, lovely series.
Kushiel's Dart series right now - Jane Austin-like characters, language that isn't "dumbed down" and an interesting plot line.
Angela <><
Angela England
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My 3: The Bible, any book by Eileen Goudge and a plain paper art journal.
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Jane Austin-like characters, language that isn't "dumbed down" and an interesting plot line.
Angela <>< I Love Jane Austin.
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Jane Austin-like characters, language that isn't "dumbed down" and an interesting plot line.
Angela <>< I Love Jane Austin. Me too! I love the language. I wish people talked like that today. :-) I tried it once for a week - a friend and I - during our sophmore year of college and we found that people treated us a lot different. PEople prone to curse words stopped cussing around us, while others prone to idle chit-chat actually engaged us with some interesting conversation. It was fun! Angela <><
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The language is very elegant and flowery. When I have the opportunity to read newspaper articles and obituaries from late 1800s and early 1900s, it amazes me as to how they are written. The politeness overflows into every fiber of your being. Even your worst enemy is polite.
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