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Bloganuary Writing Prompt:
Has a book changed your life?

I’m going to ignore the obvious cop-out answer of “duh, the Bible” and answer this question about a different book. Or series of books because just one didn’t change my life so much as having them all at once did.

If you’ve talked to me at all for more than three and a half minutes, you may have heard me talk about a man that used to be my favorite author, Ted Dekker.

His series of books, called The Circle Series, originally started as a trilogy consisting of the books Black, Red, and White. This trilogy changed my life in so many ways.

— I looked at God and my relationship with Him differently
— I fell in love with book characters for the first time that I can remember
— This story made me want to become a writer
— This is a story I remember well because not only did I read it, but I gave my mom an almost chapter-by-chapter synopsis
— I still base all protagonists in other books I read off the protagonist from this series
— I ended up finding a large group of friends through Ted Dekker’s later writings and am still in contact with a few of them today

Ted Dekker himself kind of went a little weird with his theology more recently and I don’t care as much for his more recent writings, but I will tell anyone who will listen (and is willing to read at least the original trilogy) how much I love The Circle Series.

And yes, I do hate on the add-on of the fourth book, Green (which changed it from The Circle Trilogy to The Circle Series), but I just can’t bring myself to pretend the fourth book doesn’t exist. I’m still working on letting people read it and be upset with me about the ending, but… that’s up to them.

Did that sound biased? I’m really not a fan of the fourth book.

There is one friend I’ll probably let read it that would be willing to, but we’ll see where she is once she’s finished the first three (she just finished Black the other day).

So to answer the question has a book changed your life?
The answer is yes. In so many ways.

Have you ever read a book that changed your life? What is it called? Maybe I’ll look it up! 🙂