The beauty of books—and sharing a love of reading with my grown daughter

I have the best book conversations with Emma. Here's what we're reading this summer. Tell me about your novels, memoirs and non-fiction books.

Couch on the Porch, Cos Cob, Frederick Childe Hassam, 1914

It’s past five on Friday when my phone rings and Emma’s smiling face fills my phone screen. She’s FaceTiming me from Alaska, where it’s lunchtime.

We’ve texted a lot and talked several times during her few weeks in a faraway state I’ve yet to visit — the number of places around the world that my g…