The Reading Promise : My Father and the Books We Shared (Hardcover)

from WordMaven

When I first started reading Alice Ozma's The Reading Promise, I was disappointed. The book didn't live up to my expectation that she "ooh" and "ahh" over her favorite books, that she discuss her ideas and feelings about certain books, or that she describe in lush atmospheric detail how her favor...

from bell7

When Alice was young, her father read to her every day. One day - they can't agree on exactly when - they challenged each other to read for 100 straight days. They went on to create a daily ritual that they referred to as "The Streak," reading for far more than the initial 100 days they had origi...

from missjomarch

This was a heartwarming memoir about Alice and her dad and the promise he makes to her to read out loud to her everyday. The promise begins while Alice is in the 4th grade and at first was a goal set for 100 days. Once they break that streak they continue on until she goes away to college. Someti...

from themiraclesnook

The Reading Promise My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma was a book I could not wait to read in fact I had wait for it to become available at my local library for a month and when I checked it out the librarian was jealous I got it before her since she is on the list. My expectation of...

from tututhefirst

A series of vignettes about books the author and her father read to each other over the course of 3200+ nights-- from the time Alice was 9 years old until the night before she went to college. I was frankly underwhelmed by this book. The premise was so inviting, and since I'm so in love with book...