{"id":159,"date":"2012-05-18T00:44:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookmaven623.wordpress.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2012-05-18T00:44:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T04:44:45","slug":"the-ties-that-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/18\/the-ties-that-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ties that Bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded today about the book <em>5 People You Meet in Heaven<\/em> by Mitch Albom.\u00a0 This book was <a href=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-9781401308582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-161\" title=\"The-Five-People-You-Meet-in-Heaven-9781401308582\" src=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-9781401308582.jpg?w=205\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-9781401308582.jpg 274w, https:\/\/jackiepaxsonauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven-9781401308582-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>thrust back into the front of my mind when I was reading a twitter thread #IfIDiedTomorrow.\u00a0 The whole purpose of that thread was to put out there what you want remembered about yourself.\u00a0 I began thinking about what I would post on this thread.\u00a0 I drew a blank.\u00a0 Then what came flooding into my mind was watching my father pass away in the hospital and immediately the book I read while sitting with him popped into my head.\u00a0 I thought how strange that I was reading a book about death and the afterlife as I was watching someone close to me about to take that journey.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking back on that book and re-reading it always hurdles me right back into the time when I was sitting in that hospital room just waiting.\u00a0 I can still hear the dull sounds outside the room. Smell the hospital antiseptic that is always used.\u00a0 I see my dad, who was dying of cancer at the time, only a shell of the man I knew.\u00a0 All of these vivid memories connected to one book.\u00a0 So, I began to wonder how many other books I could connect to such vivid memories.\u00a0 I was surprised with how many different books supported and comforted me through sad and happy times like they were old friends.<\/p>\n<p>J.R Ward&#8217;s Black Dagger Brotherhood popped into my mind immediately.\u00a0 I started reading these books when I was 8 months pregnant.\u00a0 I still remember laying in bed reading and feeling my little guy moving in my tummy.\u00a0 Reading them when I was in the Doctor&#8217;s office getting blood taken.\u00a0 I think I am so attached to this series and author partially because it carried me through my last month of being pregnant and helped me dampen nerves that were already rampant for a new mother.\u00a0 The distraction that was the Black Dagger Brotherhood has now intrenched itself in my life and I have become a huge fan because of how these books carried me through to one of the greatest events in my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/200px-the_notebook_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-163\" title=\"200px-The_Notebook_Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/bookmaven623.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/200px-the_notebook_cover.jpg?w=95\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Many authors effect their readers emotionally. 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