![]() Finally, she told me she had started “Number the Stars” in school, and I was overjoyed: I remembered really liking Lois Lowry’s historical fiction when I was a girl, so it seemed like the perfect mother-daughter read. She kept trying to sell me on elves, but I demurred. Frankweiler” on her, but she rejected it. I tried pressing “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. But I can’t get into the fantasy genre, so we cast around for a book we could both agree on. Her enthusiasm for reading is infectious and I suggested that maybe we should read something together and have a mini book club. I was overjoyed when this started happening with my older daughter - we started reading together and she’d chatter about the characters in the books that she was tearing through, like the telepathic elves in the “Keeper of the Lost Cities” series. ![]() Like many book nerds, when I became a mother I fantasized about a future in which my daughters and I could lounge side by side, reading in comfortable silence. ![]()
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