stick caught
Here is the stick, caught from Mark, procrastinated about for awhile, and now complete:
You are stuck inside Ray Bradbury?s Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
I thought a lot about this one. I think The Diary of Ann Frank. I don’t particularly know why, I just know that when I read that book as a kid, I was intrigued by the voice of Ann. I don’t think the voice of Ann would go over well in the Fahrenheit 451 world.
Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Ha! Yes … many! When I read Judy Blume’s “Forever” (over and over again), I sooooo wanted my first time to be with Katherine’s boyfriend Michael. After he got over the break-up, of course.
The last book you bought is?
Technically, the last book I purchased was “Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets”. That was for my son, though … the classic reader that he is. (Although my husband loves the flip-o-rama features of these books!) The last book I bought for myself was The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky. Amazon should be sending that out to me any ol’ day now.
The last book you read was?
An complicated kindness by Miriam Toews. Touching character, sad book.
What are you currently reading?
The Book of Revelation in the Bible (which confuses me a lot, truth be told), and I’m trying to enthusiastically re-read a draft of my second unpublished kid’s novel, entitled “Lolly-Girl”. A coming-of-age story of a girl’s consecutive summers working with her cousins at her grandparents’ somewhat-tacky campground. It’s a little risky, yet has definite Canadian flavour. My goal is to write pre-teen fiction where the heroine does not live in New Jersey. No offense to New Jersey, it just seems that no heroines in this genre live in … say … Calgary. Anyways, one editor told me that I am actually writing for adults, in a child’s voice. And that is tricky, he said. Translation: we’re not publishing that, dear. 
Five books you would take to a deserted island?
1. I’ll copy Marie and Mark on the Bible. Partially because it’s how I try to start my day; partially because I figure that if everyone has a copy, there’s gotta be a great book club somewhere on this island.
2. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. It changed my life, and I am due for a re-read.
3. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. This book has ignited and re-ignited me as a writer, and identified me as an (eek!) artist. Plus what great “artist’s dates” could happen on a desert island … coconut painting … sand sculpting …
4. The Munschworks Grand Treasury This one has all my “favorite-ist” Munsch works, but there’s another reason I’d take it. Truth be told, I’d think I’d be a bit of a baby for the first day or so on a desert island, and I might get sulky. I’d have to get myself together at some point and find some chutzpah. When I read “Paper Bag Princess”, my chutzpah is mustered up nicely.
5. My journal. (Did click that link because you thought I’d have my real journal online? No way! But these Lee Valley journals are the bee’s knees.) See, I can’t just read, I would go nuts if I couldn’t write. With no blogging on the island, I might be a disciplined writer!
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I learned through this exercise that I need to read more adult fiction; I read a lot of kids stuff, spiritual stuff, and other non-fiction. Interesting.
Okay, stick-throwing time. I toss it to …….Jack. I wanna hear what you read, Jack … and hopefully in a more timely manner than I finally completed this!
