Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I’m Thankful For

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish. Today’s theme was:

Thanksgiving themed Freebie — ten books I’m thankful for, authors I’m thankful for, Ten fictional families I’d like to celebrate Thanksgiving with, a personal non-bookish thankful list, etc. etc.

I love the idea of listing ten of the books I’m thankful for, because there’s been a lot of books I’ve read in my life that furthered my love of reading, helped me, comforted me, and loved me like I loved them. Here are ten of the many, many books I’m thankful for.

Thank you to:

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – for everything
• Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig – for giving me reasons
• My Heart & Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga – for understanding
• The Falls by Ian Rankin – for pulling me into John Rebus’ world and not letting go
• The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers – for reminding me why I love children’s books
• S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst – for representing the whole reason I want to work in publishing in one book
• The Humans by Matt Haig – for making me appreciate being human and alive
• Mosquitoland by David Arnold – for Mim, for being my spirit animal
• The Walking Dead, volume 1 by Robert Kirkman – for opening me up to a whole new obsession
• And most recently, The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner – for making me react to a book in a way I haven’t in a long time, for making me sob

What books are you thankful for?

Bookish Talk: Library Displays!

As you may or may not know I work at a library. One of my favorite things about my job is doing the displays – I love getting artsy fartsy and creative. It’s super fun. I know several of my followers also work in libraries, so I thought it’d be fun to share some of my displays with you. Feel free to use my ideas – just send me a picture so I can see what you did! Also, link me up to your displays in the comments if you have pictures! 🙂 You can also follow me on Instagram where I post most of my displays as well as lots of bookish pictures.

Thanksgiving display

Fall books display – actually most of the books with this are sad, dark books, which I feel are the most appropriate for fall.

No-Shave November display. Sign reads: We mustache you to check out these stache-tastic books!

Halloween/horror books display

Fall display. Floating words say: Fall in love with a good book. All books had “Fall” in the title.

My Teen Read Week display. Theme was “Turn Your Dreams into Reality”

Banned Books Week display

I’ve done a few more, but these are my favorites of the ones I’ve done so far. Would you guys be interested in seeing more of these as I continue doing them? I don’t want to post something you don’t want to see!