Family Mellmann

Katherine is many things but two things are more pronounced; she is a voracious reader and money burns a hole in her pocket.  Generally a night owl, she was downstairs and dressed and ready to go (complete with her winter coat on and a new hat and gloves) before 9:00 AM so that we could be at Barnes & Noble when they opened.  A Christmas gift card was itching be spent and she was ready to stock up on a new round of reading materials.  Katherine describes herself as a "purist", preferring actual books with paper and ink over digital books to be read on a device of some kind. I have tried over and over to get her to make use of the library - nearly unlimited free reading, but she has never actually met a book that she was willing to part with.  She much prefers to soak in their pages over and over and over again.  When she reads a mystery or fantasy fiction, she imagines alternative endings, twists unwritten by the author, or imagines other characters who could add color an