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To: Rambi who wrote (15481)	12/17/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

In my eyes, I am a very fortunate mom. I did read to them constantly when they were little. I do love to read. The kids love for me to take them to Borders, we could do it every day as far as they are concerned. Sometimes I will drop them off at Borders while I go to my office to pick up my mail and messages. We are inundated with books, magazines, and newspapers, as well as CD roms. I look at paying Border's prices as a fair return for all the things we read and don't buy. With respect to the CDROMs, I think I will have to get those wallets and everyone can have a CD wallet or two, and we can put the game books on the shelves, and throw away all the empty boxes. My husband says we should get jewel boxes, but I think that just makes them harder to take care of. Maybe if each of us has our own CDROM wallet we can nag whoever isn't putting theirs away. (Mine are reference things, like encyclopedia, atlas, stuff like that.)

To: Rambi who wrote (15481)	12/17/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Kid Rock	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

must have failed in some other area... penni, My daughter is currently reading Island of the Blue Dolphins for 6th grade. Thinking back, I believe this is the last book that I ever read. I shared that with a passenger on a flight back from Mexico about a year ago. A college professor, he replied that this statement was "an indictment of my intellectual capital" or something to that effect. Do you really think reading is that important that non-readers are to be considered failures? Do our imaginations need to be stirred by the written word or can they grow and learn from things we see, feel, and live?? Can't obsessive reading be seen as an escape of reality, dwarfing a persons ability to see a true picture of reality? Could one's brain be conditioned to only use an author's imagination for their own? Just curious. Tom PS Recommend 1 book for me to read.