Glass of Wine Book Club: Reading For Our Time
Over the course of my life, books have been my refuge and my joy. Each one teaches me things that are critical for analytical thinking and empathy, lessons of character, courage and conscience, or the consequences of the lack thereof. I have travelled to distant lands and fictional worlds, and even to the stars and beyond, through the lens of every story, from the fairy tales of my tiny years to the present day's more complex reading. Our whole, little family are big readers. We purposely read to The Peanut from the time she was tiny, making story time at our house an event that was eagerly anticipated every day, and hand-feeding her books of interest from the time she could start turning board book pages. It was important to us, and so it became important to her, too -- kids pick up on that message in reading households, and it hopefully follows them for life and to the next generation if you make it fun to learn through reading. ( Side note : I cov...
