that you read before you were 18 years old. i don't care if it's "sweet valley high" or "little women," "souls of black folk" or "sounder." see if it feels different. see if you missed something. see if you still love it or if you have learned to hate it. reveft it and see how you have changed. second, read a book with a kid this summer. whether you have children in your life already or you have to volunteer at a local shelter, school or library to find a young reading partner i'm asking you to read one book with a purchase youngerer reader. it can be as simple as "green eggs & ham" with a preschooler at head scar tissue or working through a trilogy with your tween these to rehind you of the ability of books to transform how we see the world . third, i'm asking you to read one book by an author who doesn't share your race gender or sexualer orientation. african-american sisters, try to