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What 5 books most influenced your life? What is your bookprint?
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Your Healthy Nature – What is Your Bookprint? | Our Big Earth
Scholastic has an interesting campaign going on right now called, “You Are What You Read.” The idea is to create a “Bookprint,” a list of five books that have impacted your life. You can share your Bookprint list and join a network of people who were also influenced by the same book.
The thing that intrigues me the most about this is the awareness that what you read actually shapes who you are. This is where it connects to my interest in family health. If you are what you read, should I really be spending this much time reading the entertainment pages of candy-coloured web sites? Should I really know this much about the babies of celebrities? Is that the snack equivalent of Cheetos and a root beer float?
If reading factors into your personal development, as I believe it does, should I have a steady diet of the classics? Everything I read about family health says that you have to be a good role model for your kids, that parents’ choices are the reason kids adopt healthy or unhealthy habits. I guess it is difficult to be all-knowing about cardiovascular health from the comfort of your couch, but there is something to this escapism business. Sometimes I borrow a book from the library that I know, I know, will offer nothing of value. Perhaps it’s the high-heel shoe dangling off a martini glass on the cover, or the boisterous reviews from sites with names like chicks-diggit.com, but sometimes you can just tell.
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Scholastic has a new campaign that you are what you read. There you are invited to submit their "bookprint" -- five book titles, the list of books that leave an indelible mark on our lives, shaping who we are and who we become and see who among your friends or other people who were moved by the book.
It's a bit more facebook for books for my tastes, but I found it very revealing as to the books that helped shape who I am today. These don't necessarily have to be your favorite book, but the books that really influenced or impacted your life.
Taught me that every story has a lesson, I just had to find out what the lesson was.
This book taught me that it was okay to give up everything for someone else. It could bring great joy and happiness to be selfless.
Another book that taught me that sometimes it was important to be selfless and think of the other person and how it will be more beneficial for them than myself.
Emily Post's Etiquette 17th Edition
This book gave me a framework and how to socialize with people in a structured manner. I always felt uncomfortable and self conscious in all social settings because I didn't know what was acceptable and what wasn't.
If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules by Dr. Cherie M. Scott
This book was the most profound read I ever had. I remember reading the 10 rules of being human in the introduction of Chicken Soup for the Soul, which also made a great impact on my life, but I didn't have room for it here. This book made such an impression that one Christmas I bought a copy for every single person that worked for me. I used to carry this book with me everywhere and any time I felt bad or anxious I could pull it out of my bag and open it to any page and find something in it that made me feel better. Today I do not carry it with me, but I always refer to it online or some other electronic method.
What is your bookprint? What 5 books impacted your life?
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Last edited by The_Jazz; 01-13-2011 at 02:36 PM..
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