Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Know Me By What I Read--Life in Literature

Saw this on a couple of blogs and thought I’d have a go too.

Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think, especially when you read bios and non-fiction as well as novels.

Describe yourself: The Grand Sophy (Georgette Heyer)

How do you feel: Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell)

Describe where you currently live: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (I wish!)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: A Garden of Roman Verse

Your favorite form of transportation: Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)

Your best friend is: Jane Austen (Claire Tomalin)

You and your friends are: The Rebels of Ireland (Edward Rutherford)

What’s the weather like: The Little Ice Age (Brian Fagan)

You fear: None But You (Susan Kaye)

What is the best advice you have to give: Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Thought for the day: Gone to Earth (Mary Webb)

How I would like to die: Mercy’s Embrace (Laura Hile)

My soul’s present condition: For You Alone (Susan Kaye) or A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters)


I struggled most with transportion and advice...

6 comments:

  1. So you're in the middle of the little Ice Age as well are you? The central heating had to go on last night, just short of a month earlier than last year. Like you I wish I was living in 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'. I have yet to find anyone who didn't love it and I'm not sure I would love anyone who felt that way.

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  2. I've tried to tell my life in literature but to be honest I couldn't find the titles for 3 entries and stopped. Well done Jane! You made it!
    BTW, not just to return the honour, but because I really think you deserve it ... I've got an award for you! Look at my site! Cheers.

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  3. Ann - it's been a cool summer in Colorado, and there is definitely a taste of fall in the air...nippy, dusty, crisp. My tomatoes haven't liked the weather, but the apple trees are loaded. I'll be making apple sauce soon :)

    Maria - thanks for the award...I'll be by to collect it :) Matching titles to life really was challenging...I almost cheated and used Wuthering Heights as the answer to where I would go, and then I remember the poetry book I picked up from the Getty Museum last May...whew!

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  4. I like Sense and Sensibility as a piece of advice -- we all need a little of both, right?

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  5. Dorothy - advice was a tough one for me as nothing fit even remotely until I remembered that I did reread S&S earlier in the year. Austen did give us good advice with that book--balance, but don't not feel. True passion is true.

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  6. I sighed at For You Alone then lol at A Morbid Taste for Bones!

    here's mine

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