This meme requires me to attempt to describe my life, by title, in the books I've read so far in 2009. (Via Gwenda Bond.)
Strikes me as something best attempted in the last quarter of the year. For sure.
Describe yourself:
The Night Parrot
How do you feel?
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?
Describe where you currently live:
The World Beneath
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Brooklyn
Your favorite form of transport:
The Pages
Your best friend is . . . ?
The TV President
You and your friends are . . .?
The Ghost Poetry Project (or The Content Makers, depending on who you talk to).
What’s the weather like?
(A) Disgrace
Favourite time of day?
The Time We Have Taken
What is life to you?
A House Of Air
Your fear?
The Hunter ( in another year this would be Oblomov)
What is the best advice you have to give?
An Imaginary Life
Thought for the Day?
Indignation
How I would like to die:
Things We Didn't See Coming
My soul’s present condition?
Look Who's Morphing
Strikes me as something best attempted in the last quarter of the year. For sure.
Describe yourself:
The Night Parrot
How do you feel?
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy?
Describe where you currently live:
The World Beneath
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
Brooklyn
Your favorite form of transport:
The Pages
Your best friend is . . . ?
The TV President
You and your friends are . . .?
The Ghost Poetry Project (or The Content Makers, depending on who you talk to).
What’s the weather like?
(A) Disgrace
Favourite time of day?
The Time We Have Taken
What is life to you?
A House Of Air
Your fear?
The Hunter ( in another year this would be Oblomov)
What is the best advice you have to give?
An Imaginary Life
Thought for the Day?
Indignation
How I would like to die:
Things We Didn't See Coming
My soul’s present condition?
Look Who's Morphing
great meme, Gen. Lot's to think about there. And some book titles I'm unfamiliar with to look up.
Posted by: Mark | September 12, 2009 at 02:32 PM
It's a nice one, isn't it. Should I run a short list of authors here (both Gwen and I are too lazy to link 'em all, and it disrupts the flow of the meme I think.)I shall.
The Night Parrot - Dorothy Porter
Will It Be Funny Tomorrow, Billy? - Steve Cummings bio
The World Beneath - Cate Kennedy
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
The Pages - Murray Bail
The TV President - Elise Valmorbida
The Ghost Poetry Project - Nathan Curnow
Disgrace, Coetzee, Time we have taken, Steve Carroll
A House of Air - collected nonfiction of Penelope Fitzgerald
The Hunter - Julia Leigh
Then Malouf, Roth, Steve Amsterdam and Tom Cho to the finish line, as of course you knew.
Posted by: genevieve | September 12, 2009 at 03:20 PM
Nice meme, but I think I might have to wait until year's end to do it justice. Also I think I ought to read a few more "suitable" books... ;)
Posted by: CW | September 15, 2009 at 08:18 AM
heh, I'm sure they're good. I had a Spicks and Specks alternative lyrics kind of approach to mine.
Would like also to look at my last year's readings and see what I might have come up with there :-)
when I think about it, the Steve Cummings bio title, Tom Cho and Steve Amsterdam are gifts for these questions though.
Posted by: genevieve | September 15, 2009 at 09:48 AM