323. Silent Reading Parties
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What if the most powerful way to strengthen focus, creativity, and connection in your home is…quiet? In this episode, we explore the growing trend of silent reading parties and why shared, sustained reading helps both kids and adults reclaim attention in a scrolling world. We talk about body doubling, device fatigue, reading rituals that actually work, and how simple practices like DEAR time or candlelit reading can change the rhythm of a homeschool day. If your family struggles to settle into books, this conversation offers gentle, practical ways to read together again. Join us—and then grab a book.
Resources:
- Grab a discounted copy of our Brave Writer Guide to the Winter Games!
- Big props to Christopher Frizzelle, whose Silent Reading Parties are one of the inspirations for this episode.
- Find Sue Monk Kidd’s Writing, Creativity, and Soul in the Brave Writer Book Shop. And don’t miss our selection of books that make great companion reads for the Winter Games!
- Brave Writer class registration is open! Our Building Brave Writers classes are a great pick for a winter jumpstart.
- Check out the Boomerang for Jack London’s The Call of the Wild and White Fang
- Share William Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World Is Too Much With Us” with your kids
- Visit Julie’s Substack to find her special podcast for kids (and a lot more!)
- Purchase Julie’s new book, Help! My Kid Hates Writing
- Find community in our membership forum, the Brave Learner Home
- Learn more about the Brave Writer Literature & Mechanics programs
- Start a free trial of CTCmath.com to try the math program that’s sure to grab and keep your child’s attention
- Subscribe to Julie’s Substack newsletters, Brave Learning with Julie Bogart and Julie Off Topic, and Melissa’s Catalog of Enthusiasms
- Sign up for our Text Message Pod Ring to get podcast updates and more!
- Send us podcast topic ideas by texting us: +1 (833) 947-3684
- Interested in advertising with us? Reach out to media@bravewriter.com
Connect with Julie:
- Instagram: @juliebravewriter
- Threads: @juliebravewriter
- Bluesky: @bravewriter.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/bravewriter
Connect with Melissa:
- Website: melissawiley.com
- Substack: melissawiley.substack.com
- Instagram: @melissawileybooks
- Bluesky: @melissawiley.bsky.social
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| 0:50.1 | Good afternoon, Melissa. Hello, Julie. How are you? |
| 0:54.5 | It's so good to see you again. As we're recording, we just finished up the holidays, |
| 0:59.6 | and so we had a little bit of a break, but it feels so good to be back. |
| 1:03.3 | It does. I always miss our conversations. |
| 1:05.8 | Same. I want to remind everybody that the Winter Olympics are around the corner and Brave Rider is offering an Olympic guide for pretty inexpensive. |
| 1:18.1 | I can't even remember the price. |
| 1:19.4 | I think it's like 10 bucks. |
| 1:20.7 | Do you know? |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.8 | Well, it's 1495, but there's a $5 off coupon and we'll put a link in the show notes and then there's a code on that page, so you can grab it for, yeah, $10. |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, my gosh, amazing. And here's what you should note. These guides are so robust. They have descriptions of the sports, they have poetry readings, they have books, nonfiction and fiction you can read, activities to do with |
| 1:45.7 | your kids. It's just such a great history of Milan, Italy, like, gives you just a way into the |
| 1:53.0 | Olympics with your kids that I don't want to say that it's a unit study, but it is. I mean, |
| 1:58.3 | that's basically what it is. And it will give you a way to enjoy the |
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