10 books for my younger self

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It is Tuesday and it is the time of the week again — The Artsy Reader’s Top Ten Tuesday !

The topic for the 8th of September is: Books for My Younger Self (These could be books you wish you had read as a child, books younger you could have really learned something from, books that meshed with your hobbies/interests, books that could have helped you go through events/changes in your life, etc.).

This means it’s time to dig into my Goodreads again and find the reads which I think my younger-self could learn a lot from. Here we go…

Books 1-5: Reads which could have taught me a lot about poetry

Dream Work by Mary Oliver; Helium by Rudy Francisco; Anna Akhmatovaby Anna Akhmatova; And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou; The Captain’s Verses by Pablo Neruda 

As the name of the blog suggests, I am a reading writer. I used to read for leisure, and write professionally at my work. Come 2015, after a virtual poetry workshop here on WordPress, I have rekindled my love for writing poems.

Since then there was no turning back. After two poetry collections which can be found here: https://areadingwritr.wordpress.com/portfolio/published-work/, I still have a lot to learn about the world of rhymes, rhythms, and lyrical verses. And the books above helped me with that, and it would have been lovely if my younger-self was exposed with these books as well.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Book 6: Lessons about human history

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

When Breath Becomes Air

Book 7: Lessons about mortality, fairness of life, living every moment

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Gitanjali

Book 8: Lessons about the world outside my country, life and love beyond what I knew when I was young, and the power of words when weaved right

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Between Shades of Gray

Book 9: Lessons about the strength of a human heart, finding hope during one of the darkest chapters of history

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

All the Bright Places

Book 10: Lessons about the joy and pain of young love

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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What are the books which you would suggest to your younger-self?

Share them below, along with your TTT, too!

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09.08.2020
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19 thoughts on “10 books for my younger self”

  3. i love when you talk about books. i think we have very similar tastes. I enjoyed how you lovingly paid attention to each books specialty. if there was a book i would recommend for my younger self it would be…so hard to choose! right now at this moment i would have asked my younger self to read Bulgakov’s Master and Magarita – one of the most epic reads about romance between humans, mystical discovery about the self and the essence of city life. that and Kafka on the shore by Murakami – a poignant coming of age novel everyone should read at least once. Nicely done here Rosey, you have a flair with words I love so

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    1. YAY!!! I am sure happy you like the books I featured. Talking about books make me happy, too. I will be taking note of the two reads you’ve shared! You also know their specialties, and I am grateful you shared them with me. 🙂 Stay blessed, sweet one! ❤

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