divine angst

1. You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be saved?

Like SG, I have actually read Fahrenheit 451. In eighth grade. It was the book we read in depth and analyzed that year. I still have my copy of it, all marked up and written in. I liked it—but I liked most books that I read in English class in school, that our teacher took the time to go through with us. Consequently, I even liked The Sound and the Fury, which is a bitch of a book to finish, much less understand. I digress. Of the books that were formative for me—and there are a lot of them—I guess I’d pick The Diary of a Young Girl. I love that book and I think it’s an important work that deserves to be saved.

2. Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Yes. I think back to my romance-novel phase and I had a lot of crushes on totally unrealistic characters in those books. Of course, Wesley from The Princess Bride is another fictional crush—although, again, totally unrealistic.

3. The last book you purchased?

I recently bought A Storm of Swords—just finished it yesterday, on the plane.

4. What are you currently reading?

As I just finished the last book in my to-be-read stack, I am currently without a book in progress. I’ll pull something off the shelf tonight, probably. Or I’ll finish reading this week’s Economist.

5. Five books you would take to a deserted island?