March 19, 2005

Book stick

Catalogue Annie has passed this on, a virtual baton for the stationary set:

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Oh, yes. One of the first was Jonny Quest. But I need the visuals: can't think of a character in a novel on whom I have had a bona fide crush. Maybe Captain Wentworth, a little, though I now have trouble separating him from Ciarán Hinds, on whom I do have a crush.

The last book you bought is:

iPods, iTunes & Music Online. So sue me.

The last book you read:

Life Mask by Emma Donoghue (and no, I haven't blogged it yet. And yes, I will.)

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

(NB. People seem to be defining "book" rather generously, but who am I to argue?)
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature (6 vols.)
• The Norton Anthology of World Literature (6 vols.)
• OK. Me and everyone else who does this quiz: Shakespeare's Complete Works
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (10 vols.). Maybe I'd get through 'em if I had no interruptions.
• And oh, what the heck! Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Who are you going to pass this stick to and why?

Isabella because she likes books and has interesting things to say about them. And melinama, because she and I had the same results on this quiz.

Update (21/3/05): Marja-Leena posted the same meme, but she has some additional questions:

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451; which book do you want to be?

Hmm. My favourite novels tend to be long. No doubt there will be no shortage of volunteers for Jane Eyre or Austen. I think I would go with something earlier: it took us so long to rediscover many early women's texts, I would feel a certain obligation to take on one of them and keep it alive. Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, perhaps.

What are you currently reading?

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, for class next week.
The Year's Best Science Fiction Twenty-first Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois (Editor).
How to Care for Aging Parents by Virginia Morris.

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