Teachers can foster a love of reading in their students by regularly modeling their own reading lives. This sort of modeling involves both helping students to develop reading skills and sharing personal stories that illustrate the importance of reading in adulthood. The present study describes the impact of purposefully sharing my personal reading life with my first-grade students in a suburban elementary school. I first identified as a problem of practice in this classroom students' unawareness of my reading habits outside of school. Over a semester, I introduced my students to the books that I was currently reading and was planning to read next in a display case. The following discussion provides an overview of the creation of this reading display, its use in daily interactions with my students, and its impact on the students' attitudes toward and practice of reading.