Name: Andrea

Home Store: Schuler in Okemos

Hometown: Denison, Iowa

Favorite Book (this moment): The Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul

Favorite Author(s):Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Nadine Gordimer, James Thurber, M.G. Vassanji

Favorite Childhood Book: The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown

Book you're ashamed to admit you enjoyed: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (it's sentimental!)

Favorite quote from a book: Ours is the "land of the free" - nobody denies it - nobody challenges it. (maybe it's because we won't let other people testify.) - Mark Twain in Roughing It

Hidden Talent: Turning the compost heap.

Theme Song: "Everybody is Somebody" by Taj Mahal.