Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for April 17, 2016

I wonder if Adam and Laura would prefer to have their son reading out loud.

If I saw my son reading like that I would be amazed too.Not because he doesn’t read, but because he has so much reading to do for school (HS junior). Each semester he has to read 2 or 3 books for literature, 2 or 3 books for social studies, history text, science text, math text, and 4 or 5 books and many online articles for his research paper. My daughter (3rd grade) has a reading log she has to fill out and return every week (signed by a parent) requiring 15 to 20 minutes of reading every day.

My guess as to what he’s reading? Either the latest Big Nate book or Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

He shouldn’t be calling his parents dorks; he’s not a teenager yet.

Can’t force love of reading on someone.

I may be getting my strips confused but doesn’t his mother work in a book store?

I LOVE reading books…….the kind you hold in your hands. And, our 4 children (adults) are avid readers, too. Lucky us!

I loved to read as a child and so do most of my children. My 16 year old son just has specific things that he’ll read like Riley’s Believe It or Not or Tom Wood’s books.

Wow, where is the hostility coming from?

I started at age four with an issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I was fascinated by the cover art for the story “Callahan and the Wheelies”, and wanted to read about what the artwork depicted (little roller-skate sized machines with pincer arms and “emergency light” “eyes” running around a living room floor, with a very shapely pair of female legs in the background.) Maybe that’s why I’ve been a leg man all my life?

Thinking about the upcoming movie “The Jungle Book”, i ran a line on a Signed 1894 first edition copy of the first of the Kipling’s series., $8k.