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Looks like I'm going to have to cheat.
Books and their authors:
1. The Harry Potter series and author J.K. Rowling. For helping to stabilize my mind and heart in my time of darkest confusion.
2. Little Women and author Louisa May Alcott. For dwelling so closely to my own family, ever exemplifying and supporting the intimate friendship I now have with parents and sisters.
3. Orthodoxy and author G.K. Chesterton. For putting a finger on my own madness, and then pointing the way to sanity.
4. The Divine Comedy and author Dante. For pointing to the stars.
Authors whose claim on my gratitude is less tied to a single great work:
5. Clive Staples Lewis. For the countless times you've talked me free of Plato's Cave.
6. J.R.R. Tolkien. For being at least half the reason that fantasy fiction, such as it is, exists today.
7. St. Thérèse of Lisieux. For showing me that my weaknesses are overcome-able, no matter how often I submit to them. And for the prayers.
8. All the authors who gave me my childhood companions. Frances Hodgson Burnett for Sara Crewe and Mary Lennox, L.M. Montgomery for Anne Shirley, Johanna Spyri for Heidi, Laura Ingalls Wilder for herself, Madeleine L'Engle for Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, and ever so many more.
9. The authors who have taught me how and what to write. Jane Austen, Orson Scott Card, Shannon Hale, Elizabeth Goudge, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Jordan, and most of the authors previously mentioned.
10. A handful of yet-to-be published authors whose frequent encouragement, example, and critique of my own work has helped me immeasurably. Mr. Pond, Masha, Christie, Josh Richards, Jana G., Annie O'Connor, Jessi S., Laura B. and Ryan H. who are website-less, and hopefully I haven't missed anyone... You were credited here first. I'll see you in the annals of celebrated writerdom someday.
Which authors and books are you thankful for?
Great list! I have not read all of these authors by any means, but it gives me something to look forward to!
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Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
Nice list. I almost put GK Chesterton on my list, but I ran out of numbers. Lewis and Tolkien were my top 2, though. My Top Ten is HERE.
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