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Sweet potato pie 😋

@ErinSueG

Day 4 of #holidaygratitudechallenge I am so excited about cookies! I love cookies anyway, but there is something special about cookies around the holidays!

Definitely leftovers sandwiches. Which requires that I ask, is it a sandwich if it only has one slice of bread? What if it‘s tube-shaped? I‘ll leave sandwich cube theory to others, just let me have my turkey, stuffing, gravy, and, in this case, pomegranate open-faced sandwich in peace (jellied cranberry sauce would generally be the topper, but the pom arils are close-tasting and delicious, and add a bit of crunch) #holidaygratitudechallenge

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Stollen!
It's a German speciality eaten at Christmas time. Although I know how to make it, just like Christmas biscuits, I don't make it myself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

Most grateful is a tough one when one considers all the life-changing books we discussed earlier this week! So I‘ll go with an author I‘m grateful to know personally, @LisaCarey, whose books are nearly as wonderful as the woman herself. Her latest was one of my top picks of 2016 (in fact I believe it made the top 5s of 3 or 4 of us at LibraryThing, and not because of nepotism) 😏 #holidaygratitudechallenge

My little black heart is grateful for the author Neil Gaiman. He is one incredibly talented dude who‘s oeuvre spans comics/graphic novels, adult novels and children stories, audio theatre and film. This man‘s storytelling been with me throughout my life ever since that day I bought The Wake on a whim at B&N.

#holidaygratitudechallenge @ErinSueG

I used to swear up and down that I hated fantasy but Leigh Bardugo‘s books made me realize that... I totally don‘t. Her books actually opened up an entire genre to me. #holidaygratitudechallenge

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When @ErinSueG says challenge, she means it.
There are many authors I am grateful for. I doubt I could think of them all even if I was given a day and a truck of ginko.
I am grateful for David Foster Wallace who ushered me through a painful and disorienting time in my early thirties. He, like so most of my favorite authors, describes the human condition so well, but unlike many of my favorites, you feel he‘s in it too.

Day 3 of #holidaygratitudechallenge I have a few authors that I am grateful for, but Julie Garwood is my queen!!!! She has been there for me when I was happy, when I was sad, when I have felt alone, when I needed an escape and when I needed to go 'home'. She has this way of writing that gives me that warm-safe feeling, and makes me want to go to these places and meet these characters and be a part of her worlds! I could go on and on about her.