If there's one thing for which I'll always be grateful, it's that my parents instilled a love of reading at a very early age. I was reading my own bedtime stories by the age of six and as a full fledged geek and member of the Library Council , spent many hours in the libraries at both my school and the main branch of the Free Library. And while my course work took a bit of a hit after the death of my father as I've spent time transitioning my mother into a life without him;