making your bookshelves talk about you

I've stolen the idea from another forum I attend

*Describe your self: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By - Georges Simenon

*How do you feel?: A Life Like Other People's- Alan Bennet

*Describe where you currently live:Treasure Island - Robert Luis Stevenson

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? Nowhere In Africa: An Autobiographical Novel-Stefanie Zweigg

*Your favorite form of transportation: Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over-Geraldine Brooks

*Your best friend is:Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sack

*You and your friends are: The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount-Italo Calvino

*What's the weather like?: Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson

*Favorite time of day?: The Island of the Day Before-Umberto Eco

*If your life is/was:A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories- John Murray

*What is life for you?: Myth and Meaning- Claude Levi-Strauss

*Your fear: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies- Jared Diamond

*What is the best advice you have to give: Pleading Guilty-Scott Turow

*Thought for the Day:The Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human-Ian Tattersall

*How Iwould like to die: Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven-Mark Twain

*My soul's present condition:Evolution Man or : How I Ate my Father- Roy Lewis

How fun!! (Grelobe (#1), great game, I loved your answer for your fear...I laughed out loud!

*Describe your self: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings -Maya Angelou

*How do you feel?: What's a Girl Gotta Do? -Sparkle Hayter

*Describe where you currently live: Dispatches From The Edge: A memoir of war, disasters and survival -Anderson Cooper

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? A Northern Light -Jennifer Donnelly

*Your favorite form of transportation: Walk Two Moons -Sharon Creech

*Your best friend is: The Help -Kathryne Stockett

*You and your friends are: The Outsiders -S.E. Hinton

*What's the weather like?: Holidays on Ice -David Sedaris

*Favorite time of day?: Twilight -Stephanie Meyer

*If your life is/was: Absolutely Normal Chaos -Sharon Creech

*What is life for you?: The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity -Donna Gates

*Your fear: Death on The Family Tree -Patricia Sprinkle

*What is the best advice you have to give: Here If You Need Me -Kate Braestrup

*Thought for the Day: Great Expectations -Charles Dickens

*How Iwould like to die: Vanishing Acts -Jodi Piccoult

*My soul's present condition: A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl

*Describe your self: Mr. Roberts

*Describe where you currently live: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

*Your favorite form of transportation: Bahgdad by Bus

*Your best friend is: Anna Karenina

*What's the weather like?: The Perfect Storm

*Favorite time of day?: The World of Night

*What is life for you?: A Confederacy of Dunces

*Your fear: Peak Oil

*What is the best advice you have to give: No Touch Monkey!

*Thought for the Day: is it me or is everything shit?

*How Iwould like to die: In the Rainforest

You guys have some really good answers! I found this book quiz on carlym's thread. On hers she said you're supposed to answer the questions with titles of books read this year so that's what I did:

Describe yourself: The God of Small Things

How do you feel? The Running Man

Describe where you currently live: City of God

If you could go anywhere...? The Brightest Star in the Sky

Favorite form of transportation: Coal Black Horse

Best friend is: Chocolat

You and your friends are: Outcasts United

What's the weather like? Bless Me, Ultima

Favorite time of day? V

What is life for you? The Slippery Slope

You fear: Breaking the Tongue

Best advice: A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life

Thought for the day: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

How I would like to die: Garden Spells

My soul's present condition: Rose in a Storm

Aww, fun! I'm basing this on books I've finished in 2010.

*Describe yourself: A Rose For Winter
*How do you feel?: Jigs and Reels
*Describe where you currently live: A Room Swept White
*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? Beside the Sea
*Your favorite form of transportation: Night Train to Lisbon
*Your best friend is: Her Fearful Symmetry
*You and your friends are: All The Nice Girls
*What's the weather like?: The Year of the Flood
*Favorite time of day?: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
*What is life for you?: The Long Voyage
*Your fear: Vanishing Acts
*What is the best advice you have to give: The Careful Use of Compliments
*Thought for the Day: A Little Love Song
*How I would like to die: Wrestling with God: Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust
*My soul's present condition: Moments of Reprieve

Okaaaaay, let's see here! Trying to do this with books I've actually read, but hmmm... (didn't answer them all)

*Describe your self: Just This Side of Normal

*How do you feel?: Inside Out

*Describe where you currently live: One Small Boat

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? Croatia

*Your favorite form of transportation: Horse

*You and your friends are: One of the Gang

*Favorite time of day?: Night

*What is life for you?: Could Be Worse!

*Your fear: Jessi and the Awful Secret

*Thought for the Day: All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

*How I would like to die: The Evil Twin

*My soul's present condition: Silent Tears No More

Describe yourself: Dreaming in Chinese
How do you feel: Lapsing into a comma
Describe where you live: Vanity Fair
Where would you go: Salonica, city of ghosts
Favorite transportation: Enchantment
Best friend: Buzz
You and your friends are: Team of Rivals
The weather: gone with the wind
Favorite time of day: Night
What is life like for you: Asleep: the forgotten epidemic that remains one of medicine's great mysteries
Fear: hiroshima
Best advice: Survival of the Sickest
Thought for the day: I never promised you a rose garden
How I would like to die: The fourth crusade and the sack of Constantinople
My soul's present condition: Recalled to life: the story of a comma

(I haven't read or reread Night lately but I was stuck.)

This was fun, even if it was a colossal waste of time!

Great! This is from this year's reading:

Describe yourself: Chaos Walking
How do you feel: Zen and the Art of Faking It
Describe where you live: Worth Dying For
Where would you go: Elsewhere
Favorite transportation: The Pale Horse
Best friend: The Windup Girl
You and your friends are: Janes in Love
The weather: Raven Black
Favorite time of day: First Light
What is life like for you: Dreaming in Cuban
Fear: Kraken
Best advice: No Less Than Victory
Thought for the day: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
How I would like to die: Horns and Wrinkles
My soul's present condition: Buddha for Beginners

Love it! All borrowed from the library this year:

*Describe your self: The mind's eye by Haken Nesser
*How do you feel?: In the dark by Mark Billingham
*Describe where you currently live: The cipher garden by Martin Edwards
*If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: The blue zone by Andrew Gross
*Your favorite form of transportation: The riverman by Alex Gray
*Your best friend is: Mister Roberts by Alexei Sayle
*You and your friends are: Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias
*What's the weather like?:Avalanche by Jack Drummond
*Favorite time of day?: Red to black by Alex Dryden
*If your life is/was: Strange days indeed: the golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
*What is life for you?: Denial by Peter James
*Your fear: Power play by Gavin Esler
*What is the best advice you have to give: Hold tight by Harlan Coben
*Thought for the Day: Still life by Louise Penny
*How I would like to die: Beyond fear by Dorothy Rowe
*My soul's present condition: Looking good dead by Peter James

Hmm... not sure why some of the Touchstones don't work.

This is an amazing thread and the posts here are what makes it amazing. I will have to come back and answer these questions when I have more time.

*Describe your self: A Good Woman- Louis Bromfield

*How do you feel?: You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down - Alice Walker

*Describe where you currently live: The Hills Beyond - Thomas Wolfe

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? East along the Equator - Helen Winternetz

*Your favorite form of transportation: The Lunatic Express - Charles Miller

*Your best friend is: Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

*You and your friends are: Admiring Silence - Abdulrazak Gurnach

*What's the weather like?: The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck

*Favorite time of day?: Night in Bombay - Louis Bromfield

*If your life is/was: A Simple Habana Melody - Oscar Hijuelos

*What is life for you?: One Amazing Thing - Chitra Banejee Divakuruni

*Your fear: The Air We Breathe - Andrea Barrett

*What is the best advice you have to Give: Don't Look Back - Karin Fossum

*Thought for the Day: Do They Hear You when You Cry? - Fauziya Kassindja

*How I would like to die: Skating on Thin Ice - Anatol Rapoport

*My soul's present condition: Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert

What fun this has been. I could be tempted to do another round.

#11...You did a fine job.

*Describe your self: The Sensuous Woman (“J”)

*How do you feel?: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins)

*Describe where you currently live: The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? South of the Border, West of the Sun (Haruki Murakami)

*Your favorite form of transportation: The Epileptic Bicycle (Edward Gorey)

*Your best friend is: The Original Alice (Sally Brown)

*You and your friends are: Lost Girls (Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie

*What's the weather like?: All About Lightning (Martin A. Uman)

*Favorite time of day?: Dinner at Eight (George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber)

*What is life for you?: The Divine Comedy (Dante)

*Your fear: Ghosts in Irish Houses (James Reynolds)

*What is the best advice you have to give: A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)

*Thought for the Day: Entertaining is Fun (Dorothy Draper)

*How I would like to die: In Search of Frankenstein (Radu Florescu)

*My soul's present condition: You Are a Monster (Edward Packard)

I had to cheat a little. Sadly, I don't have enough interesting titles among last year's reads. *hangs head in shame*

- Describe yourself: Millicent Min, Girl Genius
- How do you feel? Twisted
- Describe where you currently live: A Room with a View
- If you could go anywhere, where would you go? The House of Mirth
- Your favorite form of transportation: The 4:50 from Paddington
- Your best friend is: Enthusiasm
- You and your friends are: The Misfits
- What's the weather like? Catching Fire
- Favorite time of day? Endless Night
- If your life is: The Story of a Girl
- What is life for you? A Poetical Journey
- Your fear: Pride and Prejudice
- What is the best advice you have to give? Eat, Pray, Love
- Thought for the Day: Unwind
- How I would like to die: Brewing Fine Fiction
- My soul's present condition: Freak

Describe your self: Right under the big sky I don't wear a hat
How do you feel?: A drunk man looks at the thistle
Describe where you currently live: That awful mess on the Via Merulana
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: The old capital
Your favorite form of transportation: Twentieth century harmony
Your best friend is: A spaniard in the works
You and your friends are: Conference of the birds
What's the weather like?: A wild warmth of chromatic gravy
Favorite time of day?: Ancient evenings
If your life is/was: The storm and other things
What is life for you?: Illuminations
Your fear: Mere christianity (runner-up: Lysistrata)
What is the best advice you have to give: How to cook everything vegetarian
Thought for the Day: So what?
How I would like to die: The elephant vanishes
My soul's present condition: The anatomy of melancholy

Thank you callmejacx.

It's nice to see more people picking up on this thread.

Let me see if I can do this...

Describe yourself: Superfudge
How do you feel: Twelfth Grade Kills (Well it did when I was in it)
Describe where you live: The Slippery Slope
Where would you go: Garden of the Purple Dragon
Favorite transportation: Tunnels
Best friend: Eragon
You and your friends are: The Pilgrims of Rayne
The weather: Catching Fire (I wish)
Favorite time of day: Schooled
What is life like for you: King of the Mild Frontier
Fear: Curse of the Warmbloods
Best advice: No Talking to Things Not Seen
Thought for the day: Was God on Vacation?
Where would I like to die: The Lost City of Faar\

Wow, that was surprising easy.

Describe your self: The Idiot
How do you feel?: Human, All Too Human
Describe where you currently live: Paradise Lost
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Utopia
Your favorite form of transportation: The Tempest
Your best friend is: The Diary of a Madman
You and your friends are: Civilization and Its Discontents
If your life is/was: Beyond Good and Evil
What is life for you?: Lost Illusions
What is the best advice you have to give: Sense and Sensibility
Thought for the Day: Metamorphoses
How I would like to die: Great Expectations
My soul's present condition: The Heart of Darkness

Describe yourself: I'll Mature When I'm Dead (Dave Barry)

How do you feel? Wishing for Tomorrow (Hilary McKay)

Describe where you currently live: Beastly (Alex Flinn)

If you could go anywhere,where would you go? My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)

Your favorite form of transportation: Under the Jolly Roger (L.A. Meyer)

Your best friend is: I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend (Cora Harrison)

You and your friends are: Anything But Typical (Norah Raleigh Baskin)

What's the weather like? Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (Jessica Day George)

Favorite time of day: Darklight (Lesley Livingston)

What is life for you? A Conspiracy of Kings (Megan Whalen Turner)

Your fear: The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer)

What is the best advice you have to give: Suck It Up (Brian Meehl)

Thought for the Day: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Douglas Adams)

How I would like to die: Flash Burnout (L.K. Madigan)

My soul's present condition: A Tiny Step Away from Deepest Faith (Marjorie Corbman)

Describe yourself: Fortysomething - Nigel Williams

How do you feel? Restless - William Boyd

Describe where you currently live: Beyond the Shadows - Brent Weeks

If you could go anywhere,where would you go? The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

Your favorite form of transportation: The Ships of Merior - Janny Wurts

Your best friend is: A Hell of a Woman - Jim Thompson

You and your friends are: Not Exactly the Three Musketeers - Joel Rosenberg

What's the weather like? The Dead of Winter - Robert Lynn Asprin

Favorite time of day: One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night - Christopher Brookmyre

What is life for you? The Business of Dying - Simon Kernick

Your fear: Intimacy - Hanif Kureshi

What is the best advice you have to give: Be Cool - Elmore Leonard

Thought for the Day: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

How I would like to die: Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

My soul's present condition: Without Remorse - Tom Clancy

>20 AHS-Wolfy:: That is amazing, Wolfy! Made me literally laugh out loud. =)

This is a fun thread throughout (thanks grelobe for starting it off) and I may post another set of answers at some point. Not sure they'll match up to the previous ones though.

Go ahead and do that, because I enjoy reading them.

Describe yourself: The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett (delusions of grandeur, moi...?)

How do you feel? La joie de vivre by Emile Zola

Describe where you currently live: The house of the four winds by John Buchan

If you could go anywhere,where would you go? Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy

Your favourite form of transportation: More unusual railways by J.R. Day (runner up: Das Liegerad by Gunnar Fehlau)

Your best friend is: Over the frontier by Stevie Smith

You and your friends are: Demolishing Babel by Michael Carson

What's the weather like? Burr by Gore Vidal

Favourite time of day: The long dark tea-time of the soul by Douglas Adams

What is life for you? A little of what you fancy by H.E. Bates

Your fear: Mädchen in Uniform by Christa Winsloe (No, really it's: The domestic manners of the Americans by Mrs Trollope)

What is the best advice you have to give: Go, tell it on the mountain by James Baldwin

Thought for the Day: Pearls are a nuisance by Raymond Chandler

How I would like to die: Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan

My soul's present condition: Paradise postponed by John Mortimer

...Hmm: definitely harder than "list five books", but more fun!

*Describe yourself: Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse).

*How do you feel?: Nausea.

*Describe where you currently live: Fool's Paradise.

*If you could go anywhere,where would you go? I Know A Good Place.

*Your favorite form of transportation: 500 Mile Walkies.

*Your best friend is: Trout Bum.

*You and your friends are: The Innocents Abroad.

*What's the weather like?: Troubled Waters.

*Favorite time of day?: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.

*If your life is/was: A Thousand and One Limericks.

*What is life for you?: Memories, Dreams and Reflections.

*Your fear: Women as Demons.

*What is the best advice you have to give: Carry On, Jeeves.

*Thought for the Day: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

*How I would like to die: Fishing the Scottish Islands.

*My soul's present condition: The Book of the Damned.

I have to admit that I didn't understand the tenth question - so I'm bluffing there.

I agree with rankamateur's trouble with If your life is/was:...

Describe your self: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
How do you feel?: Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature by Jerry Griswold
Describe where you currently live: Cavender's House by Edwin Arlington Robinson
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Round the Moon by Jules Verne
Your favorite form of transportation: New York Walk Book by The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Your best friend is: The Books in My Life by Colin Wilson
You and your friends are: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman
What's the weather like?: Fairweather Eden: Life Half a Million Years Ago As Revealed by the Excavations at Boxgrove by Michael W. Pitts
Favorite time of day?: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
If your life is/was: The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies
What is life for you?: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Your fear: The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
What is the best advice you have to give: Get Thee to a Punnery by Richard Lederer
Thought for the Day: Don't Panic by Neil Gaiman
How I would like to die: All in Good Time: A Memoir by Jonathan Schwartz
My soul's present condition: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Not sure why most of these aren't doing the Touchstone thing.

Describe yourself: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
How do you feel?: Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Describe where you currently live.: The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls)
If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Island of the blue dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Your favorite form of transportation: The Kite Runner
Your best friend is: Matilda by Roald Dahl
What's the Weather Like?: A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Favorite time of day: Night by Ellie Wiesel
What is life like for you?: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Your Fear: Dracula by Bram Stoker
What's the best advice you have to give?: Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Thought for the Day: Write it down make it happen by Henriette Anne Klauser
How I would like to die: Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
My soul's present condition: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle

>28 feihtkoob:: You'd like to die in the Hunger Games, feihtkoob? *shudders*
;-)

PS: Love the username!

>29 girlfromshangrila:: yes. i'd also like to die in Catching fire. *winks*. Thanks by the way. =)

I limited myself to books that I own, so some of these answer don't make that much sense or reflect any sort of reality.

Describe yourself: Me: Stories of My Life

How do you feel?: Les Miserables

Describe where you currently live: The Hoosiers

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Around the World in Eighty Days

Your favorite form of transportation: How to Read a Book

Your best friend is: And Then There Were None (not really, but it made me laugh)

You and your friends are: A Monstrous Regiment of Women :)

What's the weather like? The Winter's Tale

Favorite time of day? Night

What is life like for you? The Game

Your fear: Journey to the Center of the Earth

What is the best advice you have to give? All's Well that Ends Well

Thought for the day: The Great Thoughts

How I would like to die: Unnatural Death

My soul's present condition: My Utmost for His Highest

The touchstones are a bit spotty. When I fix one, another goes out. It's like Christmas tree lights.

Such a great idea for a thread. I've had it starred for ages but thought it would take me hours to do. In fact it took about 10 minutes to compile this one just out of the books on Mount TBR! I might do another one later from all the books I've actually read.

Describe Yourself - The Quiet Stranger

How Do You Feel? - Wicked

Where Do You Live? - Under This Unbroken Sky

Where Would You Like to Go? - The Killing Place - Tess Gerritson (mwahahahaha!)

Favourite form of transport - Black Ships

Your best friend - The Finest Type of English Womanhood

You and your friends are - Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

What's the Weather Like? - Mudbound

Favourite Time of Day - The Risk of Darkness

Biggest Fear - The Dark Side of Love

What is Life Like for You? - Life After God - Douglas Coupland

Best Advice - A Fine Balance

Thought for the Day - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

How Would You Like to Die? (resisting the temptation for my usual reply "How would you like a punch in the face?) - Climbing the Bookshelves

My Soul's Present Condition - A Dark Matter

LOL! "Climbing the Bookshelves" - great way to go! It also sounds like you've got a memorable bunch of friends.

Describe your self : Nobody's Fool

How do you feel ?: We Are All Fine Here

Describe where you currently live : The Hiding Place

If you could go anywhre , where would you go ?: Off For The Sweet Hereafter

Your favorite form of transportation : The Way The Crow Flies

Your best friend is : A Widow For One Year

You and your friends are : Crazy Ladies

What's the weather like ?: A Spell of Winter

Favorite time of day ?: The Pleasing Hour

If your life was/is : The Whole World Over

What is life for you ?: So Much For That

Your fear : Solar Storms

What is the best advice you have to give ?: Let The Great World Spin

Thought for today: Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up

How I would like to die: In The Lake Of The Woods

My soul's present condition: Disobedience