Column: "IT" returns

When I was growing up, I would read just about everything I could get my hands on.

I would go to the library, prefer to get a book for a gift, and when I was in the bathroom would always have a newspaper or at least read the back of the shampoo bottle. That last part probably sounds weird, but I guarantee I am not the only person who reads this that has done the same thing.

We had a bookcase in our house that I grabbed a few books out of from time to time, but there were several hardback books that frightened me. There was an extensive Stephen King collection and I wanted nothing to do wi...