Month of Books – Day 1

Last summer, a Facebook thing was going around where you were challenged to post 7 book covers over 7 days of books you liked/had an impact on you/were important to you/whatever. The point was to post a picture of the book cover only, with no explanation. I took part in that challenge twice last summer. And then this summer, I was challenged again, and again I answered.

I did not repeat any books during the 3 weeks. I only repeated two authors (two of my absolute favorites) and those were limited to two mentions each. And at the end of the third week, I realized there were still a ton of books I would love to share. Every single time, narrowing the list to 7 books, even the third time when I had already listed 14 books, was difficult. At which point, I wondered to myself, how many more books do I want to share?

And so I made a list. The list was long. I repeated not a single author. The list ended up being over 30 books. In fact, it ended up being long enough that I realized that if I combined the new list with the previous 21 books, I could share 2 book covers a day, every day, in September, of books that I love, that had an impact on me, that were important to me in some way or another.

Due to time constraints and vacations and such, I will continue to just put the book covers in the blog posts without any explanation. But sometimes I might come in and comment on the post with more information. And if you ever want to know why one of the books mattered to me, feel free to ask.

Day 1