Your Life in Literature (fill in the blanks)

[kaliki_kila]

Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title.

Describe yourself: A Reliable Wife (Robert Goolrick)

How do you feel: A Separate Peace (John Knowles)

Describe where you currently live: East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Beach House (Jane Green)

Your favorite form of transportation: Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K Jerome)

Your best friend is: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Alan Bradley)

You and your friends are: The Mighty Queens of Freeville (Amy Dickinson)

What’s the weather like: Thimble Summer (Elizabeth Enright)

You fear: The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

What is the best advice you have to give: Love the One You’re With (Emily Giffin)

Thought for the day: Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)

How I would like to die: Not in Front of the Servants (Frank Dawes)

My soul’s present condition: Gossamer (Lois Lowry)

My Favorite Time of Day: Saturday (Ian McEwan)

Life is:The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)

[friendtoall]

Describe yourself: Cracked Up To Be

How do you feel: Pride and Prejudice

Describe where you currently live: Vancouver and Victoria

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Walt Disney World

Your favorite form of transportation: The Water Horse

Your best friend is: Jane Eyre

You and your friends are: Wintergirls

What’s the weather like: The Tipping Point

You fear: The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant

What is the best advice you have to give: Feed

Thought for the day: The Giver

How I would like to die: The Book Thief

My soul’s present condition: A Fine Balance

My Favorite Time of Day: Flush

Life is: Seven Wonders

[kofduke]

Describe yourself: The Undomestic Goddess

How do you feel: Feed (I'm hungry!)

Describe where you currently live: The Known World

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Duma Key

Your favorite form of transportation: Swim, Bike, Run

Your best friend is: Citizen Girl

You and your friends are: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil T. Frankweiler

What’s the weather like: Kiln People

You fear: Knit One Kill Two

What is the best advice you have to give: The Third Secret

Thought for the day: Then We Came to the End (of summer break...)

How I would like to die: Under the Banner of Heaven

My soul’s present condition: Autobiography of God

My Favorite Time of Day: What I talk about when I talk about running

Life is: Change of Heart

[sapphire_chan]

Wow, hard stuff...
Describe yourself: Understood Betsy (Dorothy Canfield Fisher) (Betsy is a childhood nickname of mine.)

How do you feel: Half Magic (Edward Eager)

Describe where you currently live: Baby and Me (Marimo Ragawa)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Grand Tour (Wrede and Stevermer)

Your favorite form of transportation: 4:50 From Paddington (Agatha Christie)

Your best friend is: Playful Parenting (Lawrence Cohen)


You and your friends are: Partners in Crime (Agatha Christie)


What’s the weather like: In the Hands of the Gods (Tamora Pierce)

You fear: Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)


What is the best advice you have to give: Becoming the Parent You Want to Be (Davis and Keyser)


Thought for the day: Jane Austin Ruined My Life (Beth Patillo)


How I would like to die: Interesting Times (Terry Pratchett)

My soul’s present condition: The Gates of Ivory (Doris Egan)

My Favorite Time of Day: Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) (Actually I like dawn better, but I stopped reading that series too soon to be able to use "Breaking Dawn")

Life is: Family Complex (Mikiyo Tsuda)

[kangamitroo]

Describe yourself: Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)

How do you feel: For the Love of God (L. Kaylin)

Describe where you currently live: Last Child in the Woods (R. Louv)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Persepolis (M. Satrapi)

Your favorite form of transportation: Girls in Trucks (K. Crouch)

Your best friend is: A Different Kind of Teacher (John Taylor Gatto)

You and your friends are: Learning All the Time (John Holt)

What’s the weather like: Righteous (L. Sandler)

You fear: Rope Burns (FX Toole)

What is the best advice you have to give: Practicing Peace in Times of War (Pema Chodron)

Thought for the day: Where Love Is, There God Is Also (Leo Tolstoy)

How I would like to die: Smiles to Go (Jerry Spinelli)

My soul’s present condition: Quaking (K. Erskine)

My Favorite Time of Day: And the Skylark Sings with Me (D. Albert)

Life is: The Zen of Creativity (John Daido Loori)