I have been passed the stick — twice! So here goes:

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

As I recall, folks in this story memorized books to save them (to save the books) from the fire; they became
the book they memorized. My memorization skills were never strong, even
before time began to erode them. So I would choose a book my body could
remember — poems, by Pattiann Rogers, maybe, or Maxine Kumin. Both of these writers make my body sing.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

I think I usually have a crush on whatever character I am reading about at the moment. I tend to sink pretty far into fiction.

The last book you bought is:

• Year of the Snake, Lee Ann Roripaugh
                   
• The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
                 

[same order]

The last book you read:

• The History of God, Karen Armstrong
                 
• Blue Dusk, Madeline DeFrees
• The Spiral Dance 20th Anniversary Edition, Starhawk [again]
• a book of poems by Philip Larkin, which I can’t put my hand on at the moment, and I don’t remember the title Breath, by Philip Levine
• Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, Judith Plaskow

[simultaneous]

What are you currently reading?

• Blue Pastures, Mary Oliver [again]
• A Poet’s Work, Sam Hamill
• Peace Is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hahn
• Open Season, C.J. Box

Also several poetry books; I am always reading poetry. And, of course, blogs.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

I choose these on the grounds that each should provide endless readings, with new revelations every time.

• The Complete Shakespeare
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Essential Haiku, Robert Hass
• The Four-Gated City, Doris Lessing

And, oh yeah:

• How to Survive on a Deserted Island in Comfort & Luxury With Minimal Effort (someone must have written this by now)

And since this is a fantasy, I’m taking music, too (I’ll just happen
to have with me one of those new- fangled music players, with a solar
cell battery):

• The Goldberg Variations [probably the earlier recording by Glenn Gould]

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

• moos
• Daisy

Because they will provide interesting  answers, and because they said I could . . .

. . . and a third not yet chosen — I have a request still out there, and if he says no, I’ll open it up for volunteers.

Thanks, Patia and Pearl, for passing it to me.