On my honeymoon, my husband and I began reading J. R. R. Tolkien’s “ The Fellowship of the Ring ” aloud to each other as we drove. Some may deem that a nerdy way of spending one’s newlywed days, but we enjoyed it, and our enjoyment led us to read through the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy within a few months. We then progressed to C. S. Lewis’ “ Chronicles of Narnia ,” and we’ve read various novels and parenting books together since. In the last year, we’re slowly working through Virgil’s “ Aeneid .”

Because of my background in literature, reading aloud is not a novel idea to me (no pun intended!). In a college Shakespeare class, a few of my classmates and I regularly got together to read the play we were studying. I also participated in a read-aloud discussion group that focuse

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