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Read-Aloud Revival ®

RAR #195: “So Many Books, So Little Time!” How to Quell Overwhelm in Our Reading Lives

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Parenting, Teaching From Rest, How To, Reading, Read-aloud, Homeschool, Education, Kids & Family, Books

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

"So many books, so little time!" Ever wondered how you can possibly read all the books you want to? This episode is for you!

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0:00.0

Hi Sarah. Hi Sarah. My name is Holly. Hi Sarah. My name is April. I'm in Melbourne, Australia.

0:06.8

I have a question about my name is Julie Ann and we live in India. I am wondering,

0:12.6

Hi Sarah. This is Crystal from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Can you give me a suggestion for an especially fabulous book?

0:23.7

Hey there. I'm Sarah McKenzie. This is the Read-A-Loud Revival. And in this short episode,

0:28.7

I'm answering one of your questions. Hi Sarah. My name is April. I'm the homeschooling mom of two

0:34.5

boys ages 10 and five. We read all the time. We have audiobooks going all the time. And my biggest

0:42.0

issue right now is so many books so little time. We read a lot of historical fiction to go along with

0:47.9

our history. We read a lot of readers for my five-year-old who is an emergent reader.

0:52.4

My biggest question is how do you meld the importance of reading and rereading so many great books

1:03.9

that you recommend with the recommendation that it only has to be 10 minutes a day because our

1:10.1

volume is so much higher than that. And I still feel like we are always behind where I want to be

1:16.2

as far as working through the books that we have and the books that we have out from the library.

1:20.2

And the books that we have on our shelf, it just seems like there are so many great books and

1:25.4

there's never enough time to get to them all. How do you prioritize what you read to your kids?

1:32.9

Are there certain categories that you feel are better than others? For example, we never read fantasy

1:39.7

because we're so busy reading everything else that we have. So how do you prioritize and how do you

1:45.6

make more time for reading? April, thank you for this question. Okay, I actually think there are

1:54.0

a few questions tucked into this larger question. What's with the recommendation to read for 10 minutes

2:01.6

and how does that meld with wanting to fill our kids, you know, with stories and to reread many of

2:07.2

the stories? So that's one part of your question. How do we manage the frustration that we're never

2:13.1

getting to as many books as we want to get to? You said so many books and so little time, which I think

2:19.3

a lot of us can resonate with. That's the second part I think to your question. And then there's

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