[Teresa Edgerton]

And yet very true, for all that, faery_queen. My two oldest (daughters) read voraciously, my two youngest (daughter and son) used to hardly read at all, though I read to them often when they were little and there were always hundreds of books around the house. But in the last couple of years my son (now in his mid-twenties) has started reading fantasy novels in the bathroom. He lives next door, so he comes over here and borrows books from me -- still hasn't reached the point where he buys fiction on his own, but then he's not likely to run out of reading material anytime soon.

I'm hoping that his sister, after her twins are born, will get in the habit of reading to them, and so come around to enjoying the process more herself. I believe she is going to be a very good and conscientious mother, so the chances are very good that she will read to her children (especially since I intend to see that she and they have an ample supply of good books).

If that doesn't do it, I guess I'll have to accept that she'll never take the same pleasure in reading that her father and I do.