Jade McCully

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My work: What could be better than helping others discover books they love?

My passion: Finding and reading great books and avoiding bad ones.

I love: My precious daughter even more than books and that’s a lot!

My favorite possession: A photograph I took of my grandmother’s hands.

My best bargain find: A rare photography book on the Russian ballet for $2 at a thrift sale.

My hometown: Opelika, AL, the idyllic smallish southern town.

I’m thinking about: How to squeeze 48 hours of work into 24.

Words I live by: What time is it?

I can’t live without: Leopold’s chocolate ice cream.

I am most proud of: The thanks I get from customers.

What keeps me awake at night: Two little feet padding into my room.

One thing I never want to do again: Play dumb.

I am guilty of: Wanting to play hooky and watch movies all day.

Right now I’m reading: Ten things at once.

The food I could eat every day: Sushi, sushi, sushi.

If I were a superheroine I would be: Sexual Equality Woman - in tasteful tights, of course.

The most important thing I ever lost: My passport in El Salvador in the 80s, gulp!

My best friend says I am: Independent, intelligent, nurturing (but why didn’t she say funny?!)

I wish I’d known: (what do you know now that you wish you’d known when you were younger?)

I’d like to learn to: Fly a plane.

Something most people don’t know about me: I speak German and Spanish.

My first job: Life guarding and teaching swim lessons.

Whose diary would you most like to read? Barack Obama’s.

What do you fear the most? Going blind; where am I going to find someone to read to me?

Early bird or night owl?: Both.

Favorite color and why?: Blue because if I am sandwiched between a blue sky and sea water I’m happy.