Beyond The Tower Treasure

Back when I was a kid, I loved to read. Loved it. 

I still love to read. 

But before I loved to read, I wanted to love to read. 

I remember going to a big mall in Flint, Mich., with my mom and grandma. I would stare at the books in bookstores, wishing I could read them all. I especially thought the Hardy Boys series looked good. 

It would be a few years later, but I eventually read most of the hard cover series. Another bonus of going to the mall in Flint was that we could occasionally eat at Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers -- there weren't many in the state in the '70s.