wow, you guys brought back some memories for me. i, too, cannot remember a time when i could not read.
besides my own reading, my mom read a chapter to us (2 if we were lucky) every night without fail and then we'd get our own reading time before bed. oz books were some of my favorites, and both my sister and i loved getting new books as gifts. my mom loved getting books, too, and she also loved scifi mags like analog
