The Reading Rhythm is a bookish home for readers raising readers — with recommendations for your shelves, books to share with your kids, and thoughtful ways to make reading part of family life.
A free Reading Companion to try tonight, plus the weekly note.
Books have always had a place in your life, and now you're figuring out what it looks like to make them part of your family's life too.
You still keep a book on the nightstand and add titles to your TBR faster than you can get to them. But as life has gotten fuller, reading has had to squeeze itself into whatever space is left. And you want books to feel like part of home for your kids too — not something that only belongs to school or bedtime.
The Reading Rhythm lives in that overlap: the reader you already are and the readers you're raising.
The Reading Rhythm is for the books you read for yourself, the books you read with your kids, and everything that grows around them. Books can be such an ordinary part of family life and still shape so much of it.
This is a space for both sides of that reading life: who you are as a reader and the readers you're raising. The novel you keep thinking about, the picture book they ask for again and again, the library stack that keeps getting taller, and all the conversations and little moments that come out of reading together.
As life gets fuller, reading tends to take whatever space it can get. The book on your nightstand stays there a little longer, your TBR keeps growing, and the time you used to have to disappear into a novel can be harder to find.
There's room here for your reading life too — what you're loving, what you're curious about, what's worth picking up next, and the books you want someone else to talk to about.
Reading with kids has a way of opening things up that might not come out otherwise. A story gives them a little distance to think about friendship, fear, jealousy, bravery, belonging, or whatever else a character is moving through.
Sometimes the best part of the book is what comes after it: the question they ask, the opinion you didn't expect, or the conversation that tells you a little more about how they're seeing the world.
The first Reading Rhythm experience starts with bedtime, because it's already part of so many family reading lives.
Each children's Reading Companion gives you a few thoughtful conversation prompts and a simple drawing prompt to use after the story. Enough to help you stay with the book a little longer, without turning bedtime into something that needs to be prepared for.
Sometimes your child will give you a hilarious answer. Sometimes they'll tell you something you weren't expecting. Sometimes you'll just get a few extra minutes together before the lights go out.
That's enough.
Get a free companionThe Reading Companion is where we begin. After that, I'll send you one weekly note about what we're reading around here — both mine and theirs.
You'll find books worth adding to your own TBR, children's books worth bringing home, the conversations that came out of what we read together, and the occasional thing I can't stop thinking about after the last page.
What I'm reading. What we're reading. What I'm noticing along the way.
Join and you'll get a free Reading Companion to try tonight, plus the weekly note.
And when the membership opens, the people already here get first access — and the founding rate.
Free. Come and go as your reading life does.