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Hope you’re enjoying that fresh scent of “new year” while it lasts. It smells like new opportunities, a fresh stack of books, with just a hint of excessive optimism that you always hope will linger a bit longer. You know what that means: it’s time for our annual reading resolutions!
Today, we’re sharing our hopes and dreams for 2021-at least when it comes to our reading habits. Here are the books we’re looking forward to, or the ones we’ve been meaning to read for a while but just haven’t made the time. Here are the ways we hope books will shape the world around us, or the way we understand it. May 2021 be full of good books for you!
(In case you missed it, we reflected on our 2020 resolutions last week.)
Jonathan H. Liu
When my first two kids were younger, my wife and I spent a lot of time reading to them out loud, from the board books and picture books to longer chapter books. It got to be a challenge to keep up when the two of them didn’t necessarily want the same book for bedtime, or when my wife and I were each reading a different book to them together-sometimes our bedtime routine took a long time to complete. And then, at some point, without ever making a conscious decision about it, we fell out of the habit. My youngest came along quite a bit later, and while we still did our…
