Last year we started making Sunday evenings a family reading time. After having our normal Sunday evening meal of leftovers, we each pick a chapter from a current book we are reading and read them to each other.
I've been reading chapters from a James Herriot book, "Dog Stories." What a great storyteller he is! His stories are charming, humorous and interesting, transporting us to a different time and place - where he served as a countryside veterinarian in northern England 50 years ago.
My wife and I got hooked on his books 20 years ago when we were newlyweds and didn't have a TV. We used to regularly read his stories to each other in bed at night. Now we are having the fun of passing on these dear stories to our two boys.
They are also very human stories, profiling human character traits in their interaction with animals, and inspiring us to be better people.
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