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Happy Thanksgiving, All!  I hope that everything is well with you and yours and that you have a wonderful holiday.  I am extremely thankful for all the wonderful people and blessings that I have in my life, and, in the style of my blog, I would like to write a little ode to the thing I write about here the most- books.

I am thankful for books.  The pages.  The covers.  The Words inside.  I am thankful for Hogwarts.  For the arena.  For Narnia.  I am thankful for Jane Austen.  And Charles Dickens.  I am thankful for “Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening”.  And “O Me! O Life!”  For “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”.  I am thankful for Harry, Ron, and Hermione.  For Aslan.  For Elizabeth Bennet. For Charlie, Sam, and Patrick.

I am thankful for all the nights I have spent up until 2 am because I could not put a book down. One more chapter.  One more word.  I am thankful for all the mornings I have woken up with my book pressed to  my face, not remembering how I fell asleep or where the book’s story turned into my dream.

I am thankful for all the laughter and tears that books have provided me.  For the emotions they have evoked.  For the feelings they have made me feel.

I am thankful for their ability to lead me to amazing people.  For their giving me a way to connect with human beings in a way that I didn’t think was possible.

I am thankful for their authors.  For the brains behind them.  For the people who didn’t want to do anything but write- for the people like me.

I am thankful for their ideas- for proving that being a prole is not simply enough.  For showing that an idea can change the world long after the author is dead.

I am thankful for their characters- for teaching me that a good book is so much better if its characters develop.  For making me realize that characters are based off of human beings- and that if there is more than one dimension to a character, there is more than one dimension to a person.

I am thankful for learning that if you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, then you shouldn’t judge a person by their appearance.

I am thankful for all the adventures.  For all the times in my life when I needed to escape.  For all the times when I needed to get my mind off of things.  I am thankful that, even though I never actually left the comforts of my room, I have seen so many amazing things.

I am thankful for the use of my imagination.  How reading a book is simply not enough- but it must also be expanded upon.  And thought about.

I am thankful for the words that have touched my soul.  For the quotes that I cannot forget.

I am thankful for books.