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So, I'm pretty sure I did the lamest book reports ever in school, as a teacher "taught" my class this: "To copy from one source is plagiarism, to copy from two sources is research." I would find book reports, copy half of one and half of another and hand them in... not even changing font or layout - but making sure to include a bibliography siting my sources. I was given high grades, though nothing was learned from it. I hated to read. Then one day about 3 years back I was helping to clean out a storage unit, most everything was being donated or tossed out and there was a book that caught my eye. It had an old International pickup on the front and it was labeled "TRUCK - A Love Story" by Michael Perry. My wife asked why I put it on my dashboard. I told her I'm gonna read it and she basically laughed my story away. Well, now it's a challenge! It took me about 5 or 6 months to get through all 200 and some odd pages, or so. Within the remainder of that year, I had read almost everything Mike has published! He even came out with a children's book, that he wrote for his children, one of whom he gained while marrying his wife (the love story in the "Truck" book) After reading his works, I feel like Mr. Perry could easily be my family member, or a good old friend. So, with that... I now am a reader. I have read the entire Little House series to my kids, and received a few new Perry books for Christmas that some day I'll sit down and catch up on. I've read Truck a few times now, once I made it through half of it in one flight to vacation... a far cry from 5 or 6 months! If you find any of his books, pick one up and have a laugh. Don't try to explain it to your wife, she probably won't get it. But you'll get a kick out of it!
