Welcome to the Thankful Homemaker Podcast, a podcast to be an encouragement and blessing

to each other and the role God has called us to as women.

I'm so thankful you stopped by, so grab yourself a coffee or tea and sit with me a bit

as we talk about how God's Word impacts every area of our lives as Christian women.

Hello friend, I'm Marcy Farrell from Thankful Homemaker.com and I am so glad to get a few moments

of your day.

We are on episode 101 and I've titled this one Simple Tips to Read More Books.

I struggled.

I debated on calling it Simple Tips to Read More Books for Busy Moms or Busy Homemakers,

so I ended up just sticking with Simple Tips to Read More Books.

We all know that the books we read, they shape us and they grow us.

I've been challenged by books, taught by books, discipled by books, comforted by books over

my years of reading and even being read to. I can still pick up a book and to read to my

grandbabies that I read to my children when they were little and be taken back to those days of

sitting with my babies on my lap, getting lost in the story. I can hear in those memories

the giggles or the surprise or the sadness depending on the story in the voices of my children.

It's been fun to make new memories with my grandchildren and possibly one day Lord willing,

even my great grandchildren. So just as we think about our Bible reading plan for the year,

I know many of us think about what books are going to be on our nightstands or in our cars or

our suitcases or on our coffee tables and on our bookshelves for 2021. Jane Austin said,

I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading. How much sooner one tires of anything

than of a book. When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent

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