What's all this then?

First things first.....I like reading.  Blame it on being the son of a teacher, blame it on Dad going over football magazines with me at a young age, whatever.  I've always liked reading.  When I met Joe in high school, he was a kindred spirit in many ways. (Hand to god, within 5 minutes of meeting each other in Spanish class, we were talking...okay, arguing, about sports.  I'm not sure we've stopped since.)  But book-reading, well, that wasn't discussed.  Part of the problem was there was so much else to talk about, between analyzing the sports section of the newspaper, and all the drama of being in high school (which, sadly, we weren't involved in nearly as much as we should have been.  But we did still talk about it.), books just didn't come up.  Not unusual for 15-year olds.  Unfortunately, once I left high school, I stopped reading as much.  I'd read the occasional Clive Cussler action novel, or any random sports biography that caught my eye, but I kind of lost myself in other things, and stopped reading as much.  Joe read more, to be expected  considering his 32* years of college education. But it still wasn't something we discussed, or really knew how the other one felt. 

Then 9/11 happened. And I realized that, if I didn't want the terrorists to win, I'd have to make books a part of my life again.  The End.

Just Kidding.  Sort of.