Horror is another story. I remember watching the classics such as Frankenstein and Dracula on PBS Saturday nights with my dad. Mom was at bingo, so dad I I watched horror classics on TV. Great memories. As I got older I really got into the Hammer films of the 60’s and 70’s. Christopher Lee is the man. Hands down the best horror movies ever made. As I got older reading was a great way to kill time so I read classics such as Dracula and Frankenstein and while in high school, I took a horror and sci-fi language arts class and was turned on to books such as Interview With a Vampire, Clockwork Orange and others.

Horror and sci-fi are great for the mind. The imagery in the mind while reading a good book or even watching a great movie allow for boring days to pass by happy.

It’s great to have a brother in law to share all my nerdiness with.

Later, my older sister took over the job. One birthday, she bought me a bunch of goodies, including Sweet Valley High (SVH)#30 Jealous Lies and when she saw that I read it in one day, every pay day after that, I would have three or four books from the series waiting for me at home. These are cute little anecdotes, but the true moment that I fell in love with Literature was on a Friday a few years before SVH. At school, we received our Troll Book Club orders once a month at the end of the week. After lunch, I had my Watermill $1.25 edition of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty all shiny waiting for me on my desk. At first, I was really disappointed because there were no pictures. I took it home and let it sit on my kiddy table in my bedroom for a good month. One rainy day, I was really bored; I took a look at the forgotten book and I gave it a shot…it being about a horse after all. I was transported to a world of imagination…self created with the assistance of the writer. Since then, my affair with reading is as strong as ever. I think I have that copy somewhere in my collection. I just might revisit it when I get home.