Do you ever feel book guilt?
Do you ever feel book shame?
Do you ever feel bad when you quit a book?
Do you ever feel like the books you read aren’t ‘hard’ enough?
These are common feelings that I know I’ve had. I say we need to get rid of all the book shame and book guilt we learn as we grow up because there really is no right or wrong way to read. We need to escape the book exhaustion that can come with endless Shakespeare, mandatory classics, and piles of textbooks.
We need to tell kids that they can read whatever they want to read.
Picture books! Comic books! Young Adult!
Whatever.
Just follow your joy and keep the books coming.
I partly started 3 Books as a way to keep stoking the flames for that pure love of reading books.
For most of my adult life, I lost my love of reading. Loved books as a child! And yet somehow by my late 20s I had almost completely stopped reading books. What was it? I’m not sure if it was too many dry textbooks, the endless addiction of social media feed, or the false belief I just didn’t have time to read anymore.
How many times have you heard that?
Chapter 86 of 3 Books is a little different. It’s a mental intermezzo between deep dives.
It’s a way to hopefully remind us of the pure joy that comes from reading books. Of spreading books out on the carpet and playing with them and doing somersaults over them. This chapter is about tapping back into that childhood love of reading.
We are going to hang out on my bedroom floor with my two year old son …
Join me as we flip the page into Chapter 86 …
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
Why are chapter books scary?
What can books with flaps teach us about our cities?
Why do so many people go to the bathroom in train stations?
How does Waldo get around so much?
How can sharks jump onto boats?
Word of the chapter:
Resources Mentioned:
My son’s first book [6:20]
My son’s second book [8:31]
My son’s third book [12:44]
The Hardy Boys series
Captain Underpants series
Where’s Waldo series
