<story><title>The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud</title><url>https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/the-lost-pleasure-of-reading-aloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>My wife and I had a long-distance courtship. We used to read novels to each other over Skype. It was a nice change from chatting when we&amp;#x27;d run out of things to say, and a fun way to share favourite stories. We didn&amp;#x27;t ever try to read anything really ambitious, but that was part of what made it enjoyable— even just kids&amp;#x27; chapter books, stuff like Gordon Korman, Louis Sachar, Sid Fleischman.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t read to each other as much these days (though sometimes in the car), but we definitely do read to the kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wyclif</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve begun reading Kenneth Grahame&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;The Wind in the Willows&amp;quot; to my 6 year-old boy, and it&amp;#x27;s been a wonderful experience for both of us— I&amp;#x27;ve enjoyed it more than I thought I would, and just as much as our boy does. I hadn&amp;#x27;t read it since childhood, and I&amp;#x27;d forgotten just how richly whimsical it is and how formative it was for me and how much it informs my imagination today.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud</title><url>https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/the-lost-pleasure-of-reading-aloud/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikepurvis</author><text>My wife and I had a long-distance courtship. We used to read novels to each other over Skype. It was a nice change from chatting when we&amp;#x27;d run out of things to say, and a fun way to share favourite stories. We didn&amp;#x27;t ever try to read anything really ambitious, but that was part of what made it enjoyable— even just kids&amp;#x27; chapter books, stuff like Gordon Korman, Louis Sachar, Sid Fleischman.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t read to each other as much these days (though sometimes in the car), but we definitely do read to the kids.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sova</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s very beautiful.  A friend of mine was kind enough to &amp;quot;make me an audio book&amp;quot; by recording chapters and sending them to me via e-mail.</text></comment>