I have always been a reader. One day my daughter, when asked, said she didn't read. SHE DID, but not books. She read mostly magazines, articles that interested her on the fashion industry. I told her as much , noting that almost NO ONE reads as much as I do ( as a recovering English Major, I feel like a piker if I don't have three books going at once.) I told her that once she found her genre, she would read more books, but that she did more reading than she thought. We need to encourage our children to read what calls to them. I can testify to the fact that some of the "classic" books we are told are good for us are deadly dull to children and teens.