Like many of you, I grew up reading fiction. I just consumed it, devouring everything I could get my hands on. In junior high, it was tons of fantasy and sci-fi, and it seems like I'd whip through entire series in no time flat (Piers Anthony was a fave), so that I was always searching for something new.

In high school it got trickier because I was looking for headier material, and I didn't really have anyone to suggest the kinds of things I wanted to read. I still read a lot, but running into authors like Vonnegut and Kundera were godsends, and I read just about everything they wrote.

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