what i read…
…I don’t ever remember not being able to read. And I’ve always read whatever happened to be in front of 
me, be it comics, cereal boxes, prescriptions, ads, label instructions or books. And, yes. I can read upside down, which can be awkward, a good skill, but still awkward.
Sometime around the third grade my mom introduced me to adventure, science fiction and murder mysteries. From Sir Walter Scott’s HEART OF THE MIDLOTHIAN to Fredric Brown’s MARTIANS GO HOME! to Edgar Rice Burrough’s JOHN CARTER ON MARS and Jack London’s THE CALL OF THE WILD, I spent my childhood traveling to far off places and visiting other planets while also meeting such authors as Isaac Asimov, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christi, Eric Ambler and Graham Greene to name a few.
Here are a few of the books you will find on my shelf today
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemoney Snicket
The Unlikely Exploit books by Philip Ardagh
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Tale of Desperaux by Kate Di Camillo
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Anything by Roald Dahl
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Grave Maurice by Martha Grimes
Southern Fried by Cathy Pickens
Jilted by Death by Lynette Hall Hampton
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein
The Disc World Series by Terry Pratchett
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
