Does Your Mother Know You Said That?

Back in High School reading did not come easy for me. I read slowly. My parent's put me in a speed-reading course, but I sort failed that. My collective assignments seemed to come at me like a Fire Hose when all I was looking for was a glass of water. One day, my English teacher handed out a book by George Elliot called SILAS MARNER, which was written in 1861. "Read the first three chapters tonight" he said rather sternly. Now he never said that this was a great book, or how he himself loved it, or why we would benefit from reading it. Eerily the books we received that day actually looked like they were printed 100 years ago. I gave it a shot, but I probably borrowed a friend's Cliff Notes just to pass. It would have been really cool if our teacher had told us that George Elliot was, in reality, Mary Ann Evans, in that to be taken seriously she had to pose as a guy. In those High School days I loved cars so it follows that the first book I ever read cover-to-cover was HOT ROD by Henry Gregor Felsen. That got me started, and I was on my way to becoming passionate about reading and embracing all of it's wondrous gifts. Who knew? Anyway, the reason I say all this is that I tried to make this book as easy to read as I could, Large Print and Many Pictures. Also, I cover a vast array of subjects, so as you read along I may at some points sound dumb as a bag of hammers, and then possibly even sounding quite astute at another. Whatever, by the way, after 65 years I did finally read SILAS MARNER cover-to-cover last year in 2025. Not in my top 10, but not bad at all!