The Reading Promise

Interesting book. Nice story. Not really biography, but captivating nonfiction.

I posted a longer review and then deleted it because I decided I had dwelled on the things I didn't like about the book to the detriment of the parts I loved.

The parts I loved? The last quarter. Strangely enough, the chapters set after “The Streak” ended said more to me than all the rest combined.

A young girl and her dad—an elementary school librarian—decide to make a vow to read together every night. And they do so, extending the original promise from 100 nights in a row to just seeing how long “The Streak” could last. Amazingly, the girl and her dad ended up reading 3,218 nights in a row, until the girl went off to college.




Alice Ozma (Do you see how much reading impacted these lives? Even our author's name!) tells the story of the reading adventures she and her dad shared for all those years in a lovely story of the power of sharing books.