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Top Ten Lists of Books and Things People Don't Know About Me

Today's blogs...

Welcome To My Reality - Week Seventy - Seven

5. Create a top ten favourite books read list and tell us why you love them!
This is not in any particular order... It also reflects the diversity of my reading....

Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen. A classic - a love story with depth.

Emma by Jane Austen. Finding love where you didn't realize it to be.

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White - Friendship saves and goes on long after the person is no longer there.

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron - permission to be creative and follow your dreams - I love anything by Julia Cameron.

Writing Down The Bones by Natalie Goldberg - I found this book in 1983. It gave me permission to write badly - so long as you put pen to paper and connect with the creative part of yourself. I also love anything by Natalie Goldberg.

Anything by Jill Shalvis as I love her style - she writes contemporary romances. Her characters are authentic and real. Humour plays along her story lines and I would love to be as good as her.

The Late Great Me by Sandra Scoppettone - I read this many times in high school. I learned about alcoholism and how it could be so detrimental and damaging to a life - I learned how not to give into peer pressure for the sake of fitting in.

Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett - I love this book as it reaches kids and gets them to open up and discuss their fears, particularly when I also share my own fears with them.

Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver - such a great resource for improving my own writing.

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown - lessons in living wholeheartedly. It's okay to be vulnerable.

6. Create a list of the top ten things most people don't know about you.
This is not in any particular order...

I am more introverted than extroverted - though in my supply teaching work I need to be more out there; when I finish a particularly busy people day I need to recharge in quiet.

I am afraid of deep emotion.

I prefer to hide from issues than face them directly, particularly when deep emotions and personal relationships are involved.

I feel like a fraud - I have a university degree in sociology and psychology but I don't feel smart.

I like to follow my bliss.

I feel like I am a lazy person.

I may seem calm but underneath I am paddling like h*ll.

I often feel like I am wasting my time with my dreams of writing.

I try to be a happy, optimistic person but there are times when darkness covers me and drags me down.

I have some regrets about not having children.