{"id":1242,"date":"2017-02-11T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T18:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2017-02-11T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T18:46:23","slug":"family-reading-time-of-mice-and-rat-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/disfordad\/?p=1242","title":{"rendered":"Family Reading Time: Of Mice and Rat Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>“I love family reading time, Dad. You pick the best books.”<\/p>\n

My teenager said that to me the other night. I might have gotten a tear in my eye. How often does a teenager provide that kind of affirmation? She also said that she liked the Wondla books (by Tony DiTerlizzi) that we read so much that she recommended her school library buy the series. Just recently, she saw someone check out one of the books, and she said that made her happy. And *that* made me happy.<\/p>\n

I’ve made family reading time a priority since I was first on my own with the girls. We’ve read the entire Narnia series (all seven books, in original publication order), the WondLa series, The Hobbit<\/em>, Bone<\/em> by Jeff Smith (I have the monster-sized complete edition of this comic),\u00a0The Secret of the Old Clock<\/em> (the very first Nancy Drew mystery), The Westing Game<\/em>, and Ella Minnow Pea<\/em>, among others I seem to have forgotten. I do most of the reading, and I do voices, naturally. With my parenting schedule, I don’t see the girls every night, and, when I do have them, we’re sometimes too busy to get a chapter in. All of that means it can take us months to get through a book. But it’s such good quality time. And statements like the 13-year-old’s the other night let me know it’s worth it.<\/p>\n

I’ve blogged <\/a>before <\/a>about family reading time, and I thought I would share a quick update on the last year or so in family reading. In my last post, I noted that we were wrapping up the WondLa series in early 2016. If I recall correctly, the next books we read were:<\/p>\n