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My dad never read. My mom read a lot of the Harlequin books back in the day. Now a days she reads only mystery books. Its a very narrow range of authors she reads. She's worried about what she will read if they pass away. She has no intentions of branching out and I was told not to bring it up again. We have nothing in common, but my sister and mom read a lot of the same books and swap them.
It was a neighbor who got me reading. I had either finished mowing his lawn or babysitting for him. He paid me and gave me The Sword of Shannara to read. He thought I might like because he had taught me to make maps for the game Wizardry on Apple (around '85). He gave me a tip the next and recommended that I buy Tolkien. His books had fallen apart so he couldn't give them to me.
I read a lot of SF, fantasy, historical, nutritional and working my way through Dickens slowly.
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