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March 9 is World Read Aloud Day, a day I was tuned into by Chris Singer, a great dad and beyond prolific reviewer of books over at Book Dads. The day is being organized by LitWorld, whose mission is to …
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Alan Kercinik has been a Chicagoan his whole life and a dad since 2009. He finds it easy to relate to his two boys, since he still likes most things from his childhood. All opinions here are his own, to the relief of his wife, employer, family and majority of his friends.
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Category Archive: Reading
Jul
20
2010
Raising a Geek
Over the weekend, I read a story in the New York Times about these Brooklyn kids who go to a summer camp based on a book. Camp Half-Blood, as it’s called, is based on the Percy Jackson series in which …
Jan
29
2010
A Few Lousy Words About J.D. Salinger
Before yesterday, there was only one celebrity death that affected me one some level. I was in a Starbucks when a barista told me Jimmy Stewart died. By that point, he’d probably not made a movie in thirty years. I …
Dec
18
2009
What I Did Read In 2009
As a follow – up to what I didn’t read this past year, here’s a list of what I did make it through.
Dec
08
2009
Best Ten Books I Didn’t Read in 2009
It’s the end of the year and the end of a decade, which means the slow, drunken descent into the holidays has officially begun and the only thing our turkey-drugged brains can handle is reading endless lists of lists. The …
Oct
17
2009
What’s Your Story?
Reading Nick Hornby makes me wonder: do writers only have one idea? And is that necessarily a bad thing?
Sep
17
2009
The Dangers Of Raising A Boy Genius
When the wife was preggers, we did the things that I imagine most about-to-be parents do. Bought What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Bandied about names. (I look forward to telling Jack how much I lobbied, a little less than …
Jul
24
2009
Five Top Book To Movie Transmorgifications
Hollywood has a long, proud history of ripping off adapting stories from all kinds of source material. Toys. Videogames. Comic books. Websites (supposedly, there is a Facebook movie in the works.) Board games. Even the NOW IN DEVELOPMENT Hong Kong Phooey, …
Jul
12
2009
To e Or Not To e. That Is The Question.
As we continue to digitize ourselves, the book is being forced in for an upgrade. I feel surrounded by e-reader converts. They gush like a Monday morning after a weekend hanging out with a new potential boyfriend. It’s just like reading …
Jul
05
2009
Hunting High and Low
With the wife at work last Saturday, I planned a father-son outing for the day. We’d convinced ourselves that the boy was already enamored of books. He kicked and giggled when we read him Dr. Seuss’s ABC: An Amazing Alphabet Book! …