When I was a child, my family spent two weeks of every summer at my Uncle Ken’s house in Traverse City. Getting ready for the trip was quite a production, my favorite part of which was a visit to the local book store. Every year my sister and I would get to pick out several new books to take on our vacation with us. Coming from a family of voracious readers had made me become a big reader myself, so getting new books was a huge treat. The problem was that we weren’t allowed to read any of them until we actually arrived at my uncle’s house. For me this was absol
