Tangential: Reading to my children has been one of the unexpected joys of raising them, the oldest is now ten and I still typically read to her for 30-45 minute

Tangential: Reading to my children has been one of the unexpected joys of raising them, the oldest is now ten and I still typically read to her for 30-45 minutes a night. It gives me a chance to revisit books I enjoyed decades ago and compare her reactions to my own at that age and now and it gives us a broad and deep shared world beyond the day-to-day (one of the biggest arguments for reading "the classics" IMO is that it allows you to tap into a longer and deeper cultural conversation than we typically have access to via more contemporary cultural products).