{"id":10271,"date":"2015-05-05T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=10271"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:36:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T07:36:33","slug":"which-books-would-you-tell-others-to-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/which-books-would-you-tell-others-to-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Book(s) Would You Tell Others To Own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pittwater-Life-Shapter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10274\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pittwater-Life-Shapter-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pittwater Life Shapter\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pittwater-Life-Shapter-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Pittwater-Life-Shapter-779x1024.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>This month, I was asked by <em>Pittwater Life Magazine<\/em> to share my thoughts on a book that inspired me, held a special meaning and\/or taught me a life lesson. It was for a regular section of their magazine called &#8216;The Book(s) You Must Own&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>What a great idea!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-Love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10272\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-Love.jpg\" alt=\"Shapter Books Love\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-Love.jpg 240w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-Love-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>I loved looking over my bookshelves and thinking of one book \u2013 just one book \u2013 to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Which book would you have chosen?<\/p>\n<p>Would you simply have suggested your current favourite, the classic you&#8217;ve always loved, or the book that changed your life forever. Which book was your first love? Which book was the one that made you realise you&#8217;d always love reading (or writing)? Perhaps there was a series of books that always made you want more?<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to think of just the right one to recommend!<\/p>\n<p>Let me know which book you would have chosen in the comments below! In the meantime, here&#8217;s the answer I gave <em>Pittwater Life Magazine<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-You-Must-Own.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10273\" src=\"http:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-You-Must-Own-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"Shapter Books You Must Own\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-You-Must-Own-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-You-Must-Own-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Shapter-Books-You-Must-Own.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, I was asked by Pittwater Life Magazine to share my thoughts on a book that inspired me, held a special meaning and\/or taught me a life lesson. It was for a regular section of their magazine called &#8216;The Book(s) You Must Own&#8217;. What a great idea! I loved\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/which-books-would-you-tell-others-to-own\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[1254,1258,1256,1255,1252,398,1251,1253,1257,636],"class_list":["post-10271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news","category-writer-advice","tag-classic","tag-favourite","tag-forever","tag-life","tag-love","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-pittwater-life-magazine","tag-reading","tag-the-book-you-must-own","tag-the-handmaids-tale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10271"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10282,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions\/10282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}