Many thanks to Cathy Palmer-Lister (http://www.conceptsff.ca and http://www.monsffa.com/) for alerting me to the Montreal Gazette story Everything you need to know for a dinner conversation about ... Reading.

The story includes the following lovely paragraph:

Isn't reading a little passé? Well, it's true that nearly one-third of Canadian adults didn't read a single book for pleasure all year, according to an Ipsos Reid survey looking back at 2007. But the 69 per cent of Canadians who did read were voracious, digging into an average of 20 books over the year.

And went on to point out the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer was made a best seller by young people. I can attest to the truth of this! My 16-year-old daughter, Angela Lott, is reading it over and over. And, I'm thrilled and proud to say, she's looking forward to reading my next novel, Part 5: Far Arena of the Okal Rel Saga, when it comes out in May.