Saturday of the Easter weekend seems like a good time for this. I've been passed the stick by Gareth and I cannot let him down.
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Sorry to be unimaginative about this, but no. I need a certain, you know... corporeality.
The last book you bought is: Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 2004-05.
The last book you read: The Human Stain by Philip Roth.
What are you currently reading? Saturday by Ian McEwan.
Five books you would take to a deserted island: I'm not assuming anything thrown in to begin with. So: Complete Works of Shakespeare; The Bible; Montaigne, Essays; Proust, Remembrance of Things Past; George Eliot, Middlemarch. That'll keep me busy for a while.
Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why? Who? Anne Cunningham, David McDuff and Natalie Solent. Why? Because the game demands it, I'd be interested in their answers and I hope they won't mind. If they do... I absolve them. I also attempt to 'democratize' here by chucking a whole bunch of unnamed sticks out for anyone else who wants one.