Conversation

By the time I was thirteen I had read several hundred books.

Still predominantly Science Fiction and Fantasy, but as ideas and concepts came up in those adventures, I also moved into mythology, history, philosophy and more.

Much (if not most) of my education came from the ability to obtain and read whatever I wished to, in whatever direction I wished to go in.

And it many ways it began with a mostly-forgotten, $1.25 mass-market paperback book, but a relatively obscure author, published during what was likely the height of the fiction-printing era.

I'm so glad to have been around during that time, and so thankful to have had a parent that encouraged me to leverage it.