About Reading Circle Books

Slowly, without our realizing it, we had discovered a profound truth about education: we did not need to know everything, we simply had to have a desire to help one another learn together.

Alison McKee, Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves

Remember that a single exemplar of a new format can be a profound contribution; in art and culture, maybe the MOST profound. These are the works that found genres.

Blogs are a useful example. The first blogs were static web pages, edited by hand, with new posts appended to the top. It was only after the format was proven out that other people — different people — came along and built software and hosting services expressly for blogging.

If you want, you can be that first example! You can edit by hand!

Robin Sloan, A Year of New Avenues

Reading to learn together

Reading Circle Books will showcase things in which I take delight as a learner and a homeschooling parent, and maybe occasionally host Reading Circles, which will take a close look at a specific books, and can be a forum for study groups and book clubs. And if some day this website evolves into a bookstore, wonderful!

So look around, find something that interests you, and join the conversation!

About the author:

Your host on this website is me, Andrew Wetzel, who sometimes goes by the online handle CircleReader on Twitter or Mastodon.

A person doesn’t fit on an “About” page, but I think I can at least say that I am human first, and after that a curious, Christian parent, and my writing reflects these roots. Following that curiosity, I taught English & algebra in the Chicago Public Schools for a decade, and am the father of five great homeschooled kids and the husband of their wonderful mom, Nicole. If you need more than that, you’ll just have to read me for yourself.