Mom reports: Tommy begrudgingly read "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok. He declared it to be "not too bad". Now he is reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Shakespeare sent him into a big tantrum so he is going to skip plays for a while. I know that he thinks I am a big meanie for telling him what to read but just reading Forgotten Realms books is not going to help him be culturally literate enough to pass the GED exam and there is much to learn from books that are based in the real world.