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

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

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

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

I'm answering one of your questions. I have been asked quite a bit lately about how I find time

for my own reading and also what are my latest favorites? What have I been reading lately that

I want to tell you about? So I thought it was time to revisit the topic here on the show. We've

talked about it before. We're going to talk about it again. There was a lovely voicemail. I was

going to use in this episode from one of you asking if I keep a list of recommendations of my own

favorite personal reading, not reading a lot to the kids, but just reading on my own for pleasure.

And as I was trying to put that lovely message on this podcast, I accidentally deleted it and was

unable to recover the file. So me and technology man, fun times. But I'm going to answer the question

all the same. Whoever it was who left me that message. Thank you for leaving it. And the answer is

yes. Yes, I do have a list. And I wanted to take this opportunity on the show today to share a

few favorites from it, but also to give some tips for boosting your own reading life in easy ways.

Because a lot of us want to be reading more. We just don't think we have time. And maybe reading

is something that we used to do and loved it. And we just think, well, this is not the season.

I'm going to challenge that a little bit. I think it is the season. So depending on what season of

life you're in, it can feel pretty near impossible to cultivate your own reading life. But I think

you can do it. One of the things I used to hate when we had so many little kids. So I'll back up

a little bit for any new listeners who don't know. We have six kids. And at one point when the fifth

and six, the fifth and six are twins when they were born, I'd six kids all age 12 and under. And the

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