A Reading Memory

When I think about my life in relation to literature, many memories come to mind. I was in Barnes and Noble with a friend (now my husband), and he began telling me of some of his favorite authors.  He loved John Grisham who has so many best sellers out and is a great adventure writer.  As we both scanned through the aisles of books, it dawned on me; I could only recall some of the books I had read in high school (and those were only the ones we had to read because the teacher told us to).  Even though I was in college, and reading all kinds of things, I had not read a book on my own, for my own enjoyment in a really long time.  I was quite embarrassed to be honest. It was at that point that I realized how much I was missing out on as I heard about so many great books. I made the decision to work towards becoming a "real" and "authentic" reader.