(30) My wife posted today that she’s grateful for Tillamook Mudslide ice cream. So am I!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(31) I’m grateful for the original Star Wars series for cultivating within me a deep and lifelong love for science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(32) I’m grateful for Michael Ende and his magnificent book The Neverending Story,<\/em> which remains my favorite novel of all time, and showed me as a child just how powerful and moving a book can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (33) I’m grateful for Madeline L’Engle and A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> for helping me to realize that one day, I would be a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (34) I’m grateful for Ursula K. Le Guin and her masterful book The Dispossessed<\/em> for showing me how the written word can make you feel you understand a fictional character from a completely alien culture better than you understand yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (35) I’m grateful for Orson Scott Card and Ender’s Game<\/em> for keeping me up until 4am and giving me one of the most incredible reading experiences of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (36) I’m grateful for David Gemmell and his Drenai Series for moving me to tears with the inspiring heroism of his characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (37) I’m grateful for my childhood teachers who encouraged me to read and instilled in me a love of reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (38) I’m grateful for Terry Pratchett and his wonderfully entertaining Discworld books, which definitely helped me to become a funnier person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (39) I’m grateful for Paperback Swap, which has been a wonderful tool for swapping books and building my personal library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (40) I’m grateful for all of the wonderful books I have yet to discover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (41) I’m grateful for Goodreads for helping me to organize and keep track of the books that I read, and to set reading goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (42) I’m grateful for the ability that I have to blog about my writing and my reading, something that didn’t really exist until just a couple of decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (43) I’m grateful for NaNoWriMo and the encouragement that it gives all of us to write things we didn’t think that we could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (44) I’m grateful for Brandon Sanderson, his wonderful books, the positive influence that he is on the fantasy genre, and for the class he taught at BYU that both I and my wife were privileged to be able to take (though we didn’t know each other at the time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (30) My wife posted today that she’s grateful for Tillamook Mudslide ice cream. 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