Me, as a reader

1. I read fast, sometimes too fast.

2. I know what’s going to happen in most fantasy novels, yet I read them anyway.

3. I read every book by Piers Anthony that I could find in high school.

4. I almost never re-read a book.

5. I can talk about books and their deep meanings all day. Any day.

6. I read every book by Tom Clancy (at the time) my sophomore year of high school.

7. I worked in the school library during one hour of high school. The librarian took her lunch during that hour, so I was alone in the stacks every day.

8. I love to read books about science and math, especially when I don’t have the background knowledge for them.

9. I mispronounce words that I learned from books all the time. Assuage.

10. When I read an article, I often find myself fighting the author and arguing in my head even if it’s making a point I agree with.

11. When I was six, I “read” a book about Paddington bear at the circus to my grandmother. She was very proud of me. I had memorized it from making my mom read it to me over and over. I still feel guilty about this.

12. I skim what I’m assigned. If I don’t choose it myself, I find it hard to engage past just floating along the page.

13. I like a book in which I dislike major characters. I’m a big fan of flawed heroes and anti-heroes.

14. I think Stephen King gets a bad rap as I don’t think he’s a horror writer, he’s a fantasy/science fiction moralist. And a brilliant user of language.

15. The first book I ever wished that I’d written was Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot by Al Franken.

16. I read Catcher in the Rye well before I was ready.

17. “I understood without understanding that there was nothing to understand.”