You're listening to the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast.

This is the podcast that helps you make meaningful and lasting connections with your kids

through books.

Hello, hello there, Sarah McKenzie here.

We are back to our every other Tuesday broadcast of the Read-A-Loud Revival Podcast.

Today is a conversation I had with one of my favorite thinkers, Alan Jacobs.

Alan is a distinguished professor of humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University.

He's written many wonderful books, including a biography of C.S. Lewis, a biography of the

Book of Common Prayer, and my very own favorite, which we're going to talk about a lot today,

is called The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction.

I mean, I just love this book.

I've read it multiple times, and I get something new from it at every pass.

I also really enjoyed Alan's book How to Think.

Oh my goodness, I think his university students are so lucky.

I would love to sit in on one of his classes someday.

I feel like my brain is...I feel like it wakes up.

It comes alive when I'm reading his work, and apparently when I'm talking to him, this

was my first conversation with Alan Jacobs and it was just a delight.

In this episode, you're going to hear him talk about the importance of reading at

whim.

That is, reading what gives you delight, as well as the importance of being able to have

your own reading taste.

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