You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I think this question might be "which book do you want to burn?" so I'll say the "Left Behind" series. I'd burn them.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Note to my friend, Shisa: get out of the way, Darcy is mine. He is so self-possessed. But other men have their attractions. When I was young, I fell for the romantic and tragic Jude, the Obscure (Hardy). I hated those women in Jude's life--Arabella and Sue.
The last book you bought is:
Well, I don't really buy books; I check them out. But I did find (about three weeks ago, in a used-book sale put on by the Friends of the Library) a LARGE PRINT Martha Grimes novel that I hadn't read yet, This Train Departing. Reading that was like being on vacation at the beach.
The last book you read:
This past weekend my brother-in-law handed me Harold Bloom's Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages and asked me to read The Bottle Imp by R.L. Stevenson. Short story--25pages--and it made for delightful dinner conversation later.
What are you currently reading?
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini so I can talk to everyone else who is reading it. I'm on Chapter Seven and I recommend it already.
Five books you would take to a deserted island:
1. A good rhyming dictionary
2. The Oxford book of English Verse
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
4. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
5. Okay, I know this is not really fair but I've always wanted to read the Great Books. The recommended time to alot for reading them all is ten years so I figure I'd have to be stranded on a deserted island to get the time to do it.
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why? -- I just can't pass the stick at this time. Sorry.
What were once white blossoms