" 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book." Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 Two of the most frequent questions I heard during our pandemic cloistering was "What are you reading?" and "What are you watching?". As for the reading part of it, it wasn't like I didn't have a large stack of books next to my desk, some of which were fairly large tomes... It was that I am a very slow reader, most of which is done in bed at night. After a few paragraphs, my eyes become heavy and I might actually fall asleep with my face in the book. Truth be told, I must confess that I have always been a slow reader. Way back in early grade school, I remembering being pulled out of class and going down the hall to see Mrs. Harris, the reading specialist. Perhaps I was dyslexic but my own feeling is that I'm just slow! My wife likes to have an electronic device in her hands for reading like from an I-pad or a Nook. I