This meme has been around and I unfortunately can’t remember whose blog I saw it at first, but it’s a fun one.
Using only books you have read this year (2009), cleverly answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think!
Describe Yourself: Fool (Christopher Moore)
How do you feel: Moderato Cantible (Maguerite Duras)
Describe where you currently live: Nobody’s Home (Dubravka Ugresic)
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Starry Rift (James Tiptree Jr.)
Your favorite form of transportation: Seance (John Harwood)
Your best friend is: The Post-Office Girl (Stefan Zweig)
You and your friends are: Less Than Angels (Barbara Pym)
What’s the weather like: The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Favorite time of day: Sword at Sunset (Rosemary Sutcliff)
If your life was a(n): A Great Idea at the Time (Alex Beam)
What is life to you: The Unfinished Revolution (Michael Dertouzos)
Your fear: Burial at Thebes (Sophocles/ Seamus Heaney)
What is the best advice you have to give: How to Read and Why (Harold Bloom)
Thought for the Day: Just Write (Molly O’Shaughnessy)
How I would like to die: Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson)
My soul’s present condition: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Paolo Giordano)
I love reading people’s answers to this meme. So hilarious! Loving your: “You and your friends are: Less Than Angels (Barbara Pym)” Ha!
I’m also enjoying the answers too! Although I’ve been tagged for this meme and I keep wondering how I’ll answer it. I haven’t kept a list of books I’ve read this year, which was foolish. But it does look like fun.
I’ve seen this meme around, and I love your answers, especially ‘Less than Angels’ and ‘The Unfinished Revolution’. I’m waiting to finish a few more books before I have answers to all the questions.
I thought Burial at Thebes was a particularly rib-tickling fear!
I don’t have a list of what I’ve read this year so this could be very tricky. Nice to think about though…
Love your answers. I’ll be doing this one soon. I really like the way it not only gives us a little insight into the blogger’s personality but also gives us lists of books he/she has been reading.
Oh, this is great. I will have to give it a try! Sexing The Cherry. Heh.
Great meme and I love your answers. Also I seem to pick up quite a few books from your reviews! (Not to mention getting your copy of Solitude of prime Numbers.) Excellent! Keep up the good work.
Sounds like your deathbed will be more fun than mine (“Reading the OED”).
Great answers! I like the way you made the Unfinished Revolution title work for you. And your advice on how to read and why would be excellent — perhaps even better than Bloom’s!
I thought of using the Winterson title, but I just couldn’t bring msyelf to do it….
I love your responses! The “fear” question seems to inspire the best answers. Mine was Laundry (by Suzane Adam).
Have you read Marguerite Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar?
Rosemary, it’s a fun meme, isn’t it? Less Than Angels could not have been more perfect!
Litlove, you just have to go back and look at the blog posts you’ve done so far this year. I know you will end up with some great answers!
Hazra, it helps to have a lot of books to choose from when you do the meme. I was a little worried since the number of books I have read this year is much lower than usual because of school. It got a little tricky!
Maggie, glad you like this. Since you didn’t keep a list this year that means you get to be more creative and go from memory
Emily, oh dear, please to do too much psychoanalyzing based on my answers! I can’t wait to read yours.
Daphne, oh yes, you should do this one. I know you’ve got some good titles to choose from!
Carrie, glad you enjoyed this, perhaps you will give it a try? I am always glad to share good books
Sylvia, ah but I am sure the OED is full of a variety of salacious pleasures so you never know
Dorothy, this was a fun one trying to fit the titles in so they would make sense. I think my how to read and why advice would be much shorter and more simplistic than Bloom’s which might not be a bad thing
Danielle, oh I debated but then decided why not? Risque is fun now and then
Hmm. I don’t have a public blog, so I’ll do this here …
Describe Yourself: A Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
How do you feel: The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Describe where you currently live: House of Splendid Isolation by Edna O’Brien
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Your favorite form of transportation: The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín
Your best friend is: The Power of Delight by John Bayley
You and your friends are: Strangers by Anita Brookner
What’s the weather like: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Favorite time of day: Eventide by Kent Haruf
If your life was a(n): Lovesong by Elizabeth Jolley
What is life to you: Breath by Tim Winton
Your fear: My Unwritten Books by George Steiner
What is the best advice you have to give: The Rules of Engagement by Anita Brookner
Thought for the Day: Time Bites by Doris Lessing
How I would like to die: Clandestine in Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My soul’s present condition: Halfway up the Mountain by Dorothy Hewett
Oh these are great! Love the friends and dying questions
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