i wish i had younger siblings to foist books on. sarah and ariel are too young to be made to read things. i wish i had children. no, i wish i had step-children. that would save me the trouble of having my own, and also having to go through the bits involving changing of nappies and downing of cod liver oil and all that sort of thing, waiting till they become mentally-outfitted for intelligent conversation. stepchildren come to you fully-sprung, and they can resent you, which would put them in the right frame of mind to read yp fiction, and you would foist books on them, which might either win them because your taste is so good, or make them hate the books on principle, the principle being resentment of stepmother's tyranny, and either way they won't be apathetic towards the books.. good plan, that.