Hi everybody! Welcome to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Dachie and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

I'm so glad you're here because today we're talking about books. I love talking about books.

And based on how much you guys respond to other episodes and posts about books, and especially replies I get to my latest lazy letter, which has tons about books, if you like it too.

So in this episode, I want to quickly share what I hope to read this fall and why, and we'll start by looking back at the summer.

In episode 110, called Summer Reading Plans, I shared my three desires for reading this past summer.

First, I wanted to read books during my free time instead of doing anything else.

Second, I wanted to have daily family reading time, where we all sat around reading silently but together in the same room.

And third, I wanted to read a chapter book aloud to my boys.

Quick read cap, the first one went great until I hit a rut in all four books I was reading. I was reading four at a time.

I shared specifics of that in the most recent latest lazy letter, but once I hit the rut, I lost momentum and I stopped reading.

I was stopped reading in my free time. To be honest, I'm still trying to get it back.

But I'm also rethinking what that actually means for the fall, but more on that in a minute.

The second goal of family reading time, y'all I think we did it three times.

My kids read, I read, we all read, we all did during the summer.

But we didn't have a set time like I wanted to. And you know what? It was okay. No harm done.

I kind of learned that I don't need idyllic reading moments in order for reading to still happen in my house.

Ideal isn't necessary. And then that ties into how the third goal of reading a book aloud to my boys went.

Not great. I read maybe four chapters of a Harry Potter book and they just lost steam so fast.

When I picked it up, they kind of wind and asked to read something else on their own.

So I quickly realized two things. One, just because they didn't want it this summer, doesn't mean they never will.

It's super fine that they weren't into it. And then two, I'd rather them read what they want and like it, then read what I want.

And not like this. So in summary, my summer reading plans were a poorly built house of cards.

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