But when I asked her about her progress on a book I had given her, she hadn’t gotten past the first few pages. She confessed that she doesn’t really read more than a handful of books in a year. She was very quick to say, though, “I’m a big reader, but I just don’t read many books.” She reads a lot of magazines, many of then substantive, like The Smithsonian, from cover to cover, and she reads several blogs, newspapers, etc.

I confess that rocked me loose on my pins a little. Deep down, I only considered someone to be a reader if they read books. And were I totally honest, it they made an effort to read at least some “serious” books. But here is someone who equally considers herself to be “a reader” and justifiably so. It made me think.