Books are a central part of your life because…
They allow me to escape into other lives and other times.
The best opening line you've read so far in a book.
"All this happened, more or less." Slaughterhouse-Five.
A book you read that made you envy the author's ability to write it?
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry. At first you think, "Ugh, an 800-page Western?" But by the end you're thinking "More, more!"
Any character from a book that is so like you…
No, thankfully. No one would want to read that - even me!
The five top books on your shelf…
Kitchen, Lonesome Dove, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Anna Karenina, everything by F Scott Fitzgerald.
Chick lit is chic lit?
To its detriment, yes. Good chick lit addresses real women's issues as no other genre does, but all that people focus on is the shoes.
