When we became parents, my wife and I decided that we had to actually decide what it would mean for us to be parents… Or else it would just happen to us. We read our Bibles, we talked to each other, and we learned from our experiences… The result was this. It hangs on our wall and we talk about it with our children (and ourselves) all the time…
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Without intending to do so I’ve created a reading time machine to 6, 8, and 10 years ago. I loved thinking about and making this list and it turned out to be the best way to represent the decade without recency bias or too much bunching together. I commend each of these books to you as important, interesting, and original!
Read MoreI recently came across an instance (and since then, a few more instances) of a school district announcing plans to change their school librarians' focus away from books/reading and changing them into "Innovation Specialists." Uhhhhhh. What?! ...This trainwreck of an idea is still unfolding....
Read MoreWhen we read certain books at certain times in our lives they smack us right in the face. Had I read some of these books a few years earlier or later, they would have objectively been just as good, but perhaps they wouldn’t have had the impact on me that they did then.
Read MoreIn most respects, it was everything a bookstore should and could be. As a book publisher, I took the whole experiment as a personal challenge to improve the quality and veracity of books that people want to read. Here were my biggest nine impressions after spending an hour at the newest bookstore in Chicago.
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