The reading promise by alice ozma5/21/2023 "I think that once you start something like that, it's very difficult to stop it seems very weird after 100 nights of reading in a row to say, 'Let's not read tonight.' " The nightly reads quickly became habit, Ozma explains. Brozina and Ozma join NPR's Scott Simon to talk about what kept their "Reading Streak" alive. Their commitment to reading and to each other are the subject of Ozma's debut book, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared. Their streak ultimately lasted 3,218 days - spanning from Ozma's fourth-grade year to her first day of college. So Ozma and her father made a pledge: to read together every single night for 100 days.īut after 100 days, they just kept going. Ozma was suddenly spending a lot more time alone with her dad, Jim Brozina, an elementary school librarian. Her parents had just split up, and her older sister had recently left for college. When Alice Ozma was in the fourth grade, her family was going through a rough patch.
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