Was there anything in your childhood experience that you would say fostered reading?/discouraged reading? What would it be like for you if for one reason or other you couldn't read? How do you choose a book to read? Has there ever been a book that has made a big difference to your life in one way or another? How did it help you? If you could get an author to write the 'perfect book,' what would it be like? What elements would it include? In her research on pleasure-reading, Catherine Sheldrick Ross has focused on the readers' experience.