1. I found BookBlog while searching for a journal that had disappeared.
2. My sister says my bookshelves look like that
Best Novels of the 20th Century list.
3. Yes, I've read them.
4. No, I didn't like all of them, but I never throw anything away (you should see my record collection).
5. Our dad read to us every night from six to seven (a grade-school sampling: Toynbee's The Study of History, The Iliad, Dante's Inferno, everything Edgar Rice Burroughs ever wrote), a practice I was subject to well into high school, and something I am still working through with my therapist.
6. I don't actually go to a therapist, though I tried once.
7. I live in Oakland, California, with my pre-teen daughter and my handsome boyfriend, and their evil cats. I am a graphic designer, which means I spend a lot of time reading. I also write in my journal about as often as I re-design it, and set a very bad example for the other authors of the group journal I run by not writing very often at all.