Welcome to the Top 5 in 5 Blog Hop, hosted by Living Several Lives. This week, we'll be looking at our personal Top 5 books that we have read within the last five years. Everyday I'll post another addition to the list, as well as a link to the giveaways that go along with this hop, so stay tuned! The final 2 days... well. I have a bit of fun planned.
l'll start off with a book that, while I expected it to be great when I first heard of it back in 2012, I didn't expect it to change how I dealt with my students, my friends- even myself.
l'll start off with a book that, while I expected it to be great when I first heard of it back in 2012, I didn't expect it to change how I dealt with my students, my friends- even myself.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking |
I didn't expect it to tell me so much about myself, about why I act as I do. I didn't expect this book to simultaneously blow my mind and make me cry, just by telling me something few have. That it's okay to be the way I am. That I don't have to force myself to change. Simultaneously, it didn't tell me that it was okay to retreat into myself either: a trait a very good friend still points out every time he calls me Semorrocoy (morrocoy: type of turtle). It forced me to look at ways I could make my feelings and opinions known, even if I found it so difficult to do face to face. In a way, that book encouraged me to stop hiding my voice in a place where I knew it wouldn't be heard by many and come out into the open. That book is the reason I blog today.
Reading Quiet, as trite as it sounds, changed my life. Not only where and how I write. It's changed the way I work. How I interact with those around me. There have been mistakes, of course. Things I wish I'd never written or said. But that's part of being human, after all. Learning from mistakes.
Introverts and extroverts both: do yourself a favor. Read. This. Book.
Reading Quiet, as trite as it sounds, changed my life. Not only where and how I write. It's changed the way I work. How I interact with those around me. There have been mistakes, of course. Things I wish I'd never written or said. But that's part of being human, after all. Learning from mistakes.
Introverts and extroverts both: do yourself a favor. Read. This. Book.
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