Reading: Good or Evil?

I admit that, for me, reading is an addiction. I use it the way other people use drugs: to shut my brain up. I'd rather read the cereal box than eat my cereal in the mornings. It's a plus if the box actually has something on it other than ingredients.

My dh tends to view my reading addiction the way most people veiw drug addiction or alcoholism. He'll joke (at least, I think it's a joke) about the evils of reading. In some ways he has a point- when I'm deep in a book, I'm likely to neglect things.

I told him he should blog here about the Hogwarts Headache article above. This, to him, is just another manifestation of the evils of reading.

I have no plans to cure myself. But I do promise I will never, ever, read and drive. Well, hardly ever. There are those alluring road signs they just stick out there in front of you, after all...