I recently listened to a Coffee & Crumbs episode all about media, and between that and our lively discussion about Where the Crawdads Sing and Educated on my last post (and the planning underway for my book swap!!), I thought it might be fun to keep rolling on the reading train. So today, all about my life as a reader… and I want to hear about yours! What do I read? Right now I’m averaging about 20-40 books in a year, or 2-3 per month. About half are non-fiction, and half are novels. I love… …(good) parenting books …pop psychology and behavioral economics books …personal finance books …books that give me practical ways to live out my faith …books that deal with the intersection of technology and family …novels with exquisite writing. And of course I read the Bible! Usually this version. How do I read? I exclusively read physical books, for a few reasons. I prefer the experience of real books – seeing the typography on the page, feeling the heft of the book shift from right to left as I page my way through. I am a visual learner, so I tend to retain more from a paper page – even if I haven’t marked it, I can often recall where a certain quote I paused over was (top left corner, bottom right) many days later. I want to live in a home with books because I think they’re beautiful and because I want where I live to be filled with things I treasure. Environment is a strong way of imparting our values to our kiddos, and there is almost nothing I more want to give them than a love of reading. On that note, I read physical books because I want my kids to see my reading