Via Robert Brady at Pure Land Mountain.

1. You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. Which book do you want to be?
Jane Eyre Actually in high school, most people thought I was this book.

2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I think most of my crushes have been on fictional characters...but in movies. In books, I'm attracted to women characters--not because I want to fall in love with them, but because I want to be them.

3. The last book you bought was...?
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett. Carrington recommended it.

4. The last book you read was...?
My Antonia by Willa Cather. I'm on a Willa Cather kick at the moment (which I was going to blog about before I got distracted by this meme). I read one after another in March/April, Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and A Lost Lady.

5. What are you currently reading?
Yesterday was library day and I picked up A Traitor to Memory by Elizabeth George because I recently read an interview in which she described her writing process. I'm not big on mysteries, but she sounded so interesting in the interview that I wanted to see if it carried over into her writing. I'm also reading The Artist's Way because KAT recommended it. And, of course, still slogging through the Japanese translation of Harry Potter.

6. Five books you would take to a desert island...
This is a tricky question because it could mean, what five book do I hold dearest (the first three below). But to survive on a desert island, I'd have to take five books I'd think would keep me occupied for the rest of my life, that are entertaining and rereadable--which is a somewhat different list.

6.1 The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Perhaps my favorite book because it is both lyrical and philosophical.

6.2 Brideshead Revisited. I love Charles and Julia, Sebastian and Oxford, of course. The real reason is I've still never read any writing more elegant.

6.3 Jane Eyre. Because it was so much a part of me when I was growing up, so rereading it keeps me in touch with my first self.

6.4 Gone with the Wind. Long and entertaining. And because Scarlet is such a T-type.

6.5 Heath's Major Poets of the Romantic Period. The complete works of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. That would keep me busy. Besides, whenever I'm alone in nature, Wordsworth comes to mind and I want to look up poems.

7. Who are you passing this stick on to and why?
AJM at itymbi because he can't live if he can't read.

Ken Loo at Notes of Doubt because he and I have swapped books before.

Kristen McQuillin at mediatinker because she is always exploring her creativity, so I imagine she reads some interesting things.