Using only this year’s books

From 20th Century Vox through Victorian Geek and on to The Little Professor, where I first encountered it, comes a little literary game.

Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. I have changed the rules a little, using only books that I have discussed in A Commonplace Blog so far this year.

Describe yourself: The Hack (Wilfred Sheed).

How do you feel: Heir to the Glimmering World (Cynthia Ozick).

Describe where you currently live: The End of the Road (John Barth).

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Cannibal Galaxy (Cynthia Ozick).

Your favorite form of transportation: Breath (Tim Winton).

Your best friend is: The Ghost Writer (Philip Roth).

You and your friends are: Amateur Barbarians (Robert Cohen).

What’s the weather like: The Middle of the Journey (Lionel Trilling).

You fear: Endless Love (Scott Spencer).

What is the best advice you have to give: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell).

Thought for the day: Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden (Allan H. Gilbert).

How I would like to die: Full of Life (John Fante).

My soul’s present condition: Somebody’s Darling (Larry McMurtry).