I’m a reader. Since before I learned to decipher the symbols that created letters and words,I’vebeen fascinated with books and stories. I had the influence of older siblings and parents I saw reading all the time. Since my father was in graduate school when I was in preschool, I even have a book I scribbled in with yellow crayon because “Daddy writes in his books!” And, because I have siblings who are much older (11 years), I learned in second grade that Ididn’thave to read a book that did no...