Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes
(part 1 of 5)
(If your mom is crazy or mean, you may have good reasons not to listen to her, but my mom is a cool, peace-loving person, so her advice tends to be constructive.)
When I was in college my mother reminded me to “do your reading” from time to time. I was more interesting in having the kind of fun that didn’t involve books. You (probably don’t) know the catch tune by the Scottish band the Proclaimers:
“Come on nature, I don’t want to read a book or talk about the world
Come on nature, I just want to spend some time being boy to the girl”
Well, those randy Scottish lads just wanted to get busy in the clover. While the group is still active and probably making money, the lads are in their late 40s now and I bet are a bit more interested in books than chasing girls.
In any case, in college I majored in English for some odd reason I’ve forgotten. I had a lot of reading to do, and much of it was long, tedious 19th century novels. To be fair, I did get exposed to some excellent old-fashioned literature but it 
