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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

by Alice Ozma

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A family memoir built around a nightly reading ritual

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A family memoir built around a nightly reading ritual

Alice Ozma recounts the long-running ritual she called “The Streak,” begun as a fourth-grade challenge for her father to read aloud for 100 consecutive nights and continued until she left for college. Told through vignettes, the memoir links the evolving father-daughter relationship to the books they shared and to the lessons Ozma draws from them. Dickens, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, and the Harry Potter series form part of the reading history, placing familiar classics and children’s literature within a personal family tradition. A reading group guide is included.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in father-daughter relationships and family memoirs
  • Book lovers drawn to shared reading traditions and read-aloud culture
  • Reading groups seeking a memoir with built-in discussion material

Themes

FatherhoodFamily bondsReading aloudBooks and storytellingComing of age

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Book overview

When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to continue what they called "The Streak." Alice's father read aloud to her every night without fail until the day she left for college.

Alice approaches her book as a series of vignettes about her relationship with her father and the life lessons learned from the books he read to her.

Books included in the Streak were: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the Oz books by L. Frank Baum, Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, and Shakespeare's plays.

*Includes reading group guide*

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