Maybe it says more about the company I usually keep, but I'm completely baffled when I discover that someone I know doesn't read. Part of me thinks, "I'm sorry, are we living on the same planet?"

I've also been repeatedly reminded by my spouse that most people really don't read any longer fiction before middle school. I have a tendency to expect that other people are more like me than unlike me, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The assumption must be human nature...