Life According to Literature 2023

THE RULES: Using only books you have read during last year (2023), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. Let me know below in the comments, if you've joined in, too, so I can go and read your answers.

• Describe yourself: Life, the Universe, and Everything | Douglas Adams
• How do you feel: Thirty Trillion Cells | Isabel Thomas
• Describe where you currently live: This Other Eden | Paul Harding
• A place you like to hang out: The Accidental Tourist  | Ann Tyler
• If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Four Seasons in Rome | Anthony Doerr
• Your favorite form of transportation: The Walking School Bus | Walter Friedland
• Your best friend is: Hello Beautiful | Anne Napolitano
• You and your friends are: Trust | Hernan Diaz
• What's the weather like: The House of Light | Mary Oliver
• You fear: Goblin Market | Christina Rossetti
• What is the best advice you have to give: How to Be An Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
• Thought for the day: I Have Some Questions for You | Rebecca Makkai
• How would I like to die: After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life After Death | Greyson, Bruce
• My soul's present condition: My Utmost for His Highest | Oswald Chambers

Guess I'll have to do this every year. It was fun and a little weird. What do you think of my selections?

-Anne

Life According to Literature

THE RULES: Using only books you have read during the year (2019), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. Let me know below, if you've joined in too.

• Describe yourself: Becoming | Michelle Obama
• How do you feel: Called | Mark Labberton
• Describe where you currently live: Inland | Tea Obreht
• A place you like to hang out: The Library Book  | Susan Orleans
• If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Astoria | Peter Stark
• Your favorite form of transportation: The Walk | Richard Paul Evans
• Your best friend is: The Friend | Sigrid Nunez
• You and your friends are: The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai
• What's the weather like: The Sun and Her Flowers | Rupi Kaur
• You fear: Life on Mars | Tracy K. Smith
• What is the best advice you have to give: We Should All Be Feminists | C.N. Adichie
• Thought for the day: Disappearing Earth | Julia Phillips
• How would I like to die: Burial Rites | Hannah Kent
• My soul's present condition: Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner

Guess I'll have to do this every year. It was fun and a little weird. What do you think of my selections?

Thanks Brona for the idea (Brona's Books)
-Anne