Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

Book Girl by Sarah Clarkson

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?

If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.

Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight. Raised in the company of the lively Anne of Green Gables, the brave Pevensie children of Narnia, and the wise Austen heroines, she discovered reading early on as a daily gift, a way of encountering the world in all its wonder. But what she came to realize as an adult was just how powerfully books had shaped her as a woman to live a story within that world, to be a lifelong learner, to grasp hope in struggle, and to create and act with courage.

She's convinced that books can do the same for you.

Join Sarah in exploring the reading life as a gift and an adventure, one meant to enrich, broaden, and delight you in each season of your life as a woman. In Book Girl, you'll discover:

• how reading can strengthen your spiritual life and deepen your faith,
• why a journey through classic literature might be just what you need (and where to begin),
• how stories form your sense of identity,
• how Sarah's parents raised her to be a reader--and what you can do to cultivate a love of reading in the growing readers around you, and
• 20+ annotated book lists, including some old favorites and many new discoveries.

Whether you've long considered yourself a reader or have dreams of becoming one, Book Girlwill draw you into the life-giving journey of becoming a woman who reads and lives well.

Sarah Clarkson is an author and blogger at www.sarahclarkson.com, where she writes about literature, spirituality, and beauty on a regular basis. She studied theology at Oxford (BTh, MSt) and is the author or coauthor of six books, including the recently released Book Girl, a guide to living a life of reading. She has a large following on Instagram (@sarahwanders), where she organizes live read-alouds of poems, novels, and essays that inspire her. She may frequently be found in her home on the English coast, where she lives with her Anglican vicar husband, Thomas, and their two children, Lilian and Samuel, with a cup of fine tea and a good book in hand.