{"id":3449,"date":"2018-09-09T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:58:35","slug":"favorite-books-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/favorite-books-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"My 10 Favorite Books – Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My 10 Favorite Books – Challenge<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

This challenge invites you to think back <\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

over your years of reading pleasures.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I really enjoyed thinking about my summers of reading as a girl – how I used to lay on the glider on our front porch behind the trees, hidden away from the world. New worlds opened up to me as I spent my summer reading the books I brought home from my local library in Ellwood City, PA.\u00a0 As you see, a number of my 10 favorite books are some I read so many years ago.\u00a0 They linger on in my memories.<\/p>\n

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Here are the rules for this CHALLENGE:<\/p>\n

1._ Think about those books you enjoyed over a lifetime of reading. It is not easy to do because you have to whittle your list down to only TEN books! Write them down – make a list of 10.<\/p>\n

2._ When you complete your list, post it on your blog.<\/p>\n

3._ Send a link to your blog post to 3 friends and Invite your\u00a0 3 friends who love books to take\u00a0 the challenge. List the 3 friends you are inviting at the end of your blog post.<\/p>\n

4._ Ask your 3 friends to send you a link to their blog post so you can enjoy seeing their 10 favorite books, too.<\/p>\n

6._ Your 3 friends will invite 3 of their friends to continue on with the challenge.<\/p>\n

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Here is my list:<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
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My Ten Favorite Books: compiled by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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1. The Wild Iris<\/em> by Louise Gluck<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2. Black Beauty<\/em> by Anna Sewell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3. Under the Lilacs<\/em> by Louisa May Alcott<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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4. when new time folds up<\/em> by Kathleen Fraser<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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5. Archaic Smile<\/em> by A. E. Stallings<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6.\u00a0\u00a0Till we Have Faces, C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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7. This Tree Will be Here for a Thousand Years<\/em> by Robert Bly<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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8. For the Time Being<\/em>\u00a0 by Annie Dillard<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9. Kettle Bottom<\/em> by Diane Gilliam Fisher<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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10. Meditations<\/em> by Marcus Aurelius<\/span><\/div>\n
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I am inviting 3 friends:<\/div>\n
Patty Fletcher:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/campbellsworld.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Joan Myles:\u00a0https:\/\/jewniquelymyself.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n
Joan’s 10 Favorite Books:\u00a0\u00a0Read it!<\/a><\/div>\n
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Abbie Johnson Taylor:\u00a0https:\/\/abbiescorner.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n
Abbie’s 10 Favorite Books\u00a0Read it!<\/a><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Thank you, Joan and Abbie,\u00a0 for participating.<\/div>\n
This challenge is OPEN to anyone who wants to participate.<\/div>\n
When you do it, be sure to give me your links so I can read them, too.<\/div>\n
Thanks so much.<\/div>\n
I LOVE you for it!<\/div>\n
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This is post #200 on Walking by Inner Vision.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n
I am celebrating this milestone today by inviting some blogger friends to take part in a challenge.<\/div>\n
This blog is written and published by Lynda McKinney Lambert, Copyright, September 9, 2018.<\/div>\n
THANK YOU for visiting with me today!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Leave a comment for me.<\/h2>\n

E-mail:\u00a0 llambert@zoominternet.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog and website at:\u00a0 www.lyndalambert.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Page: http:\/\/www.dldbookslcom\/lyndalaambert<\/a><\/p>\n

My books on Amazon:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

See my newest book..click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Our truest life is when we are in our dreams \u2013 awake. Henry David Thoreau<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage:<\/h2>\n

See this book, Click here<\/a><\/h2>\n

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This challenge invites you to think back over your years of reading pleasures.
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