End of the year meme

Anyone else ready for 2020 to be over? LOL. We have 5 weeks of reading left, but it's never too early to start thinking about the questions. I'm looking at my To Be Read list to see if any titles would make good answers. I would love to go to A Promised Land, but I would also love to go to a movie theater, concert, conference, etc. (At least things haven't gotten so bad that I would actually want to go to a gym!)

The way this works is you answer a series of questions using only the titles of books you have read this past year. Sometimes it works out perfectly, sometimes it's a struggle or a stretch, and sometimes you have to fib a little. I don't have a good answer for "Your favorite food is," so I'll probably go with Wicked Bite - all my favorite foods are bad for me!

If you want to see what people did last year, you can find it here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/313688#7006694
When I reread the thread in light of 2020, some of the answers took on a whole different meaning.


Describe yourself:

Describe how you feel:

Describe where you currently live:

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:

Your favorite form of transportation is:

Your favorite food is:

Your favorite time of day is:

Your best friend is:

You and your friends are:

What’s the weather like:

You fear:

What is the best advice you have to give:

Thought for the day:

What is life for you:

How you would like to die:

Your soul’s present condition:

What was 2020 like for you?

What do you want from 2021?

I like these! I'll probably hold off until the end of the year to come up with titles to fit, but commenting here will help me remember. :-)

Yay! Thanks for starting this thread! I've been thinking about this recently :)

Can't wait till we see the end of 2020 and this meme has become a traditional part of year end so I am very happy to see it's return.

Me too!

I'll wait until I'm done with my reads to fill this meme, but I look forward to seeing which books I select for the answers. I look forward to reading everyone's answers every year.

Are the questions set then?

>7 mysterymax: There have been different versions over the years and I tried to incorporate both. Didn't want it to get too long. Last year I had added a bonus question, "Describe your job:" but I did not think that was appropriate for 2020. :(

>8 BookLizard:. I'll start working on my list! Have to tell you, the year end meme is the best part of the entire challenge!

I don't believe I've ever participated in this. I think it will be fun.

I'm declaring 2020 to be over--for me, at least. So here is my end-of-year meme.

Describe yourself: Basic Black with Pearls

Describe how you feel: All Systems Red

Describe where you currently live: This House Is Haunted

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Starless Sea

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Spirit

Your favorite food is: In the Night Wood

Your favorite time of day is: The Twilight Pariah

Your best friend is: The Witchfinder's Sister

You and your friends are: The Twisted Ones

What’s the weather like: The Last Days of Night

You fear: The Devil Aspect

What is the best advice you have to give: Now, Voyager

Thought for the day: Version Control

What is life for you: Dreams Before the Start of Time

How you would like to die: This Sweet Sickness

Your soul’s present condition: Ghostly

What was 2020 like for you? The Uninvited

What do you want from 2021? Solutions and Other Problems

>11 sturlington: Nice answers!

>11 sturlington: - Your last two answers really made me chuckle.

Everything I'm likely to finish before the end of the year doesn't fit here, so here goes:

Describe yourself: Above Suspicion

Describe how you feel: Quiet (by Susan Cain-touchstone not working)

Describe where you currently live: Cozy Minimalist Home

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Bookshop

Your favorite form of transportation is: Mystery Mile

Your favorite food is: Baby Farm Animals (sorrynotsorry)

Your favorite time of day is: The Golden Specific

Your best friend is: Mistress of Mellyn

You and your friends are: Miraculous Mysteries

What’s the weather like: Blackout

You fear: Dracula

What is the best advice you have to give: Don’t Overthink It

Thought for the day: Mourn Not Your Dead

What is life for you: The Lazy Genius Way

How you would like to die: A Strange Disappearance

Your soul’s present condition: Dreaming of the Bones

What was 2020 like for you? Evil Under the Sun -and- Grey Mask (no really, my sister-in-law made me a grey mask :))

What do you want from 2021? All Shall Be Well

>14 casvelyn: - Somebody's been reading some Deborah Crombie mysteries!

>15 katiekrug: Yes! They were available digitally from my library during the shutdown, and then I got hooked on them!

>16 casvelyn: - It's one of my favorite series. I think I have 2 or 3 left to read and then I'll be caught up *sad face*

>11 sturlington: & >14 casvelyn: Great answers! I'm hoping to get three more books in before the end of the year.

>16 casvelyn: It's a great series to get hooked on. It's one of my favorites. I have some tentative picks for mine but I'm not ready to reveal them. I might read something better fitting before the end of the year. I've also got lots of ones where it's going to be a tough choice. I'll probably list the honorable mentions at the bottom of my post. Some categories will have them; others won't.

>11 sturlington: I totally agree with your last answer!

>14 casvelyn: Love your "what is life for you" answer!

My answers:

Describe yourself: More Than a Woman

Describe how you feel: Kind of Coping

Describe where you currently live: Plague City

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Your favorite form of transportation is: Railway Nation

Your favorite food is: A Taste for Honey

Your favorite time of day is: Any Night of the Week

Your best friend is: ATA Girl

You and your friends are: Warriors and Witches and Damn Rebel Bitches

What’s the weather like: Blue Lightning

You fear: The Stone Angel (anyone who's seen the Doctor Who episode "Blink" will get this)

What is the best advice you have to give: Remain in Love

Thought for the day: This is Your Brain on Music

What is life for you: When Days Are Long

How you would like to die: 18 Tiny Deaths

Your soul’s present condition: A Darker Domain

What was 2020 like for you? Things Ain’t What They Used to Be

What do you want from 2021? Survival

>20 rabbitprincess: Great answers.

>21 thornton37814: Thanks :) The food one proved to be quite difficult!

>20 rabbitprincess: - Great answers. So perfect for the questions.

>22 rabbitprincess: I've got a couple of good options there, but I think I know which one it will be.

>19 thornton37814: I'm loving it so far, just trying to keep myself from binge-reading the whole thing and then being sad I'm caught up!

>20 rabbitprincess: Thanks! It's legit a good book (and podcast) too! I'm not actually a genius, but I am definitely lazy! I think your "death" answer sounds terrible though. :)

>22 rabbitprincess: The food one was difficult, which is why mine is somewhat scandalous LOL!

I'm working up my answers at the moment. I worry that it makes my world look very bleak - I don't remember reading quite as many dark books as I seem to have dark answers to some of these questions!

>25 casvelyn: It was a toss-up between 18 Tiny Deaths and An Overdose of Death... neither of those were great... maybe I'll read a better title closer to the end of the year :D

I did LOL at your food answer!

My answers:

Describe yourself: Patience of a Spider

Describe how you feel: Not Quite Dead Enough

Describe where you currently live: Among the Shadows

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Simenon's Paris

Your favorite form of transportation is: A Train in Winter

Your favorite food is: Last of the Summer Wine

Your favorite time of day is: Time to Murder and Create

Your best friend is: The Cutie

You and your friends are: A Voice in the Night

What’s the weather like: Ice Cold

You fear: The Overnight Kidnapper

What is the best advice you have to give: Everybody Dies

Thought for the day: Maigret Has Doubts

What is life for you: Wings of the Sphinx

How you would like to die: Death at Sea

Your soul’s present condition: Between Silk and Cyanide

What was 2020 like for you? Blind Man With a Pistol

What do you want from 2021? Fortune and Glory

>28 mysterymax: I love these answers! The time of day one in particular is genius.

>28 mysterymax: Great answers.

>28 mysterymax: >30 thornton37814: Thanks, I was beginning to think my answers were are the dark side! Actually - they are! Great, eh? My favorite is what 2020 was like.

Oh, wow, the answers above are excellent.

Here are mine.

Describe yourself: I Am a Story, A Strange and Mystifying Story

Describe how you feel: Moonstruck

Describe where you currently live: The Space Between (2)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Library

Your favorite form of transportation is: Howl's Moving Castle

Your favorite food is: Gazpacho for Nacho

Your favorite time of day is: Star and Fire

Your best friend is: My Pet Book, A Book of Kisses

You and your friends are: Humanoid Robots: Running into the Future

What’s the weather like: It's Not All Rainbows

You fear: Time Killers

What is the best advice you have to give: Shout Out Loud!

Thought for the day: Would it Be Okay to Love You?

What is life for you: A Case of Possession

How you would like to die: 10 Dance (but actually, in no way)

Your soul’s present condition: Little Bird is Afraid of Heights

What was 2020 like for you? Quill Me Now

What do you want from 2021? We're Going to be Okay

>32 aspirit: These are also excellent answers! I agree with your 2021 answer and love the friends answer.

Although I haven't been commenting, I've been reading them all. I love these! I am looking forward to doing my own on Jan. 1!

I also love these and I am working on putting together my answers. I think I am still reading a book whose title I will be using so will probably post later on this week.

I'm still reading my big book of Christmas mysteries, and probably will until the end of the year, so here are my answers:

Describe yourself: The Silent Wife
Describe how you feel: The Living is Easy
Describe where you currently live:The Kitchen House
If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Bridges of Madison County
Your favorite form of transportation is: Sorrow Road
Your favorite food is:Tomato Red
Your favorite time of day is:Before I Go To Sleep
Your best friend is:The Whisperer
You and your friends are: Normal People
What’s the weather like: The Delicate Storm
You fear:Never Knowing
What is the best advice you have to give:The Benefit of Hindsight
Thought for the day:Leave The World Behind
What is life for you:A Life in Parts
How you would like to die: Guiltless
Your soul’s present condition:Heaven, My Home
What was 2020 like for you? A Good Marriage
What do you want from 2021? My Year of Rest and Relaxation

I love these end of year memes! >36 lsh63: You gave me a laugh...Silent Wife?! I couldn't use that one!

>36 lsh63: aww, that's left me feeling all warm and fluffy inside.

>37 mysterymax: I think I get more perverse pleasure from not saying what I think at first, potentially leading to an argument, then being vindicated with "You know you were right" lol.

>38 Helenliz: Thanks, we'll see what answers I give next year!

Describe yourself: A Handful of Dust

Describe how you feel: Invisible

Describe where you currently live: The Institute

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Sea, the Sea

Your favorite form of transportation is: Utopia Avenue

Your favorite food is: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Your favorite time of day is: Six Wakes

Your best friend is: Our Mutual Friend

You and your friends are: The Best We Could Do

What’s the weather like: The Coldest Winter

You fear: Queen of the Damn

What is the best advice you have to give: A Mercy

Thought for the day: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

What is life for you: The Orphan Master’s Son (Daughter)

How you would like to die: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Your soul’s present condition: A Brightness Long Ago

What was 2020 like for you? The Vanishing Half

What do you want from 2021? Contact

Great answers! I've never seen these questions before, this is so much fun!

>40 Kristelh: The last two are so fitting it's almost a little eerie!

>40 Kristelh: Great answers.

>41 MissBrangwen:, >42 thornton37814:, Thanks, like someone said above, I felt like my answers were a bit "dark". But it was that kind of year.

I love all the answers above, mostly the "dark" ones.

Describe yourself: Thunderstruck

Describe how you feel: As Though I Had Wings

Describe where you currently live: Somewhere in France

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Neither Here Nor There

Your favorite form of transportation is: Dream Wheels

Your favorite food is: Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Your favorite time of day is: Getting to Happy

Your best friend is: My sister, the serial killer

You and your friends are: The Other People

What’s the weather like: Love in a Cold Climate

You fear: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs

What is the best advice you have to give: Do No Harm

Thought for the day: There’s Nothing To Be Afraid Of

What is life for you: Cold Comfort

How you would like to die: Playing With Fire

Your soul’s present condition: All the Devils Are Here

What was 2020 like for you? Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

What do you want from 2021? Bats in the Belfry

>44 VivienneR: You fear: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs

LOL!

>44 VivienneR: You food answer is fabulous!
Your fear made me snort tea!
And I' greatly afraid that your wish for 2021 will, indeed, be granted.

>44 VivienneR:. I agree with >46 Helenliz:, I, too, greatly fear your wish for 2021 with be granted.

Describe yourself: Phantom Lady

Describe how you feel: Above Suspicion

Describe where you currently live: Ice Station Zebra

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Imagined London

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Pale Horse

Your favorite food is: Wild Strawberries

Your favorite time of day is: Gaudy Night

Your best friend is: The Man of Gold

You and your friends are: Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives

What’s the weather like: Clouds of Witness

You fear: The Demon in the House

What is the best advice you have to give: Trust No One

Thought for the day: No Cure for Love

What is life for you: Because of the Cats

How you would like to die: Dead Clever

Your soul’s present condition: The House of the Spirits

What was 2020 like for you? All Systems Red

What do you want from 2021? August Folly

I'm amazed so far at how spot on the answers are this year. I'll post next week.

Describe yourself: Lady of Quality

Describe how you feel: In the Dark

Describe where you currently live: At Lady Molly’s

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Magic Mountain

Your favourite form of transportation is: Full Tilt

Your favourite food is: Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant

Your favourite time of day is: Before Midnight

Your best friend is: Wittgenstein’s Nephew

You and your friends are: Celestial Bodies

What’s the weather like: Uncle Fred in the Springtime

You fear: The Lenient Beast

What is the best advice you have to give: Say Nothing

Thought for the day: 488 Rules for Living: the thankless art of being correct

What is life for you: The Shifting Landscape

How you would like to die:Death in Fancy Dress

Your soul’s present condition: The Acceptance World

What was 2020 like for you? Good Morning Midnight

What do you want from 2021? The Age of Wonder

>44 VivienneR:. >48 NinieB:, >50 pamelad: Great answers! >44 VivienneR: Eyeballs? Really? What kind of a cat do you have?

Wonderful answers,everybody!

I agree, great answers from everybody!

I had been trying to hold off for a few days but gave in this morning.

>50 pamelad: If I had read Good Morning, Midnight I would have picked that as my favorite time of day.

>54 NinieB: You must be a real night owl. I like the early morning, when the birds are chirping, before the sun comes up.

I see that you are above suspicion, but recommend that we trust no one. Yourself excepted?

>48 NinieB: Love your favourite form of transportation!

>50 pamelad: Your thought for the day is excellent. I agree that the thought of being correct is a thankless art.

>51 mysterymax: My cat is a sweetie, but I've never met a cat I would truly trust. :)

>56 VivienneR: I hope you can survive your best friend!

>55 pamelad: Ha! Actually what I liked about Good Morning, Midnight for this prompt is that it has two times of day! To give an accurate answer I would have said my favorite time of day to get up is about 8 am.

And I did not see that conflict, good catch! I said I was feeling Above Suspicion but I could have easily picked The Crimson Madness of Little Doom . . .

I really need to read The Lenient Beast.

Nothing I'm reading will make the meme, so here's mine:

Describe yourself: The Absent One

Describe how you feel: Stiff

Describe where you currently live: The Library at the Edge of the World

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Saffron Kitchen

Your favorite form of transportation: Blue Highways

Your favorite food is: Scones and Bones

Your favorite time of day is: Midnight at the Blackbird Café

Your best friend is: A Gentleman in Moscow

You and your friends are: Midwives

What’s the weather like: A Hundred Summers

You fear: The Tipping Point

What is the best advice you have to give: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Thought for the day: Hell is Empty

What is life for you: The List of Things That Will Not Change

How I would like to die: The Deep End of the Ocean

My soul’s present condition: Gone to Dust

What was 2020 like for you: The Book of Longings

What do you want from 2021: The Seventeen Second Miracle

>59 dudes22: those are really good ones!

>59 dudes22: Those are so good!! I giggled at the food and advice answers, and totally agree with the "what was 2020 like for you" answer.

>59 dudes22: As a genealogist, I beg to differ with your advice! ;-)

Delta Queen's 2020 Year End Meme

Describe yourself: The Wife, The Maid and the Mistress (and all to the same man!)

Describe how you feel: Inside Out and Back Again

Describe where you currently live: The Glass Hotel

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Into the Beautiful North

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Raft

Your favorite food is: Alligator Candy

Your favorite time of day is: When the Moon is Low

Your best friend is: The Bishop’s Wife

You and your friends are: Belles on Their Toes

What’s the weather like: Sunshine After Rain

You fear: Only Killers and Thieves

What is the best advice you have to give: Play It As It Lays

Thought for the day: Whiskey When We’re Dry

What is life for you: Living

How you would like to die: Death by His Grace

Your soul’s present condition: A White Bird Flying

What was 2020 like for you? Things Fall Apart

What do you want from 2021? The Last Good Paradise

>63 DeltaQueen50: Describe yourself: The Wife, The Maid and the Mistress (and all to the same man!)

It's a good thing you clarified that one! ;-)

>63 DeltaQueen50: Bwahahaha at your self-description! Also love the weather answer.

>64 LibraryCin: & >65 rabbitprincess: I love these memes! I posted a different one to my thread - it's a fun one as well.

April's YEAR-END MEME:

Describe yourself: Quiet Girl in A Noisy World

Describe how you feel: We All Have Our Hang-Ups

Describe where you currently live: Haunted Norman, Oklahoma (not Norman but super close)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Darwin's Forgotten World

Your favorite form of transportation is: Learning to Ride

Your favorite food is: A Catered Christmas

Your favorite time of day is: The Cat Who Came To Breakfast

Your best friends are: Animal Children

You and your friends are: Weird But True

What’s the weather like: He Shall Thunder in the Sky

You fear: Breakdown

What is the best advice you have to give: Old Age Ain't No Place For Sissies

Thought for the day: Hey God?, Yes, Charles.

What is life for you: All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat

How you would like to die: One Shot

Your soul’s present condition: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck

What was 2020 like for you? Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream

What do you want from 2021? Spring's Gentle Promise

>67 lowelibrary: Great answers!

Describe yourself: Sister Outsider

Describe how you feel: like The Drowned and the Saved

Describe where you currently live: The 42nd Parallel

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Magic Mountain

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Driver's Seat

Your favorite food is: Ducks, Newburyport

Your favorite time of day is: The Afternoon of a Writer

Your best friend is: The Magician of Lublin

You and your friends are: One, No One, One Hundred Thousand

What’s the weather like: Weather

You fear: The Living and the Dead

What is the best advice you have to give: How We Fight for Our Lives

Thought for the day: You Can't Touch My Hair

What is life for you: Passing

How you would like to die: Annihilation

Your soul’s present condition: Irretrievable

What was 2020 like for you? Too Loud a Solitude

What do you want from 2021? Party Going

>69 ELiz_M: - Love those last two especially.

Describe yourself: More Than a Woman

Describe how you feel: Still Waters

Describe where you currently live: Lockdown

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Last Flight

Your favorite food is: Last Night at the Lobster

Your favorite time of day is: Between Two Skies

Your best friend is: Necessary as Blood

You and your friends are: All Adults Here

What’s the weather like: The Siege Winter

You fear: The Indignities of Being a Woman

What is the best advice you have to give: Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands

Thought for the day: The Witches Are Coming

What is life for you: Turbulence

How you would like to die: Fade Away

Your soul’s present condition: The Mercy Seat

What was 2020 like for you? Infinite Home

What do you want from 2021? Brave New World

These are all so great - we should all give ourselves a pat on the back for having such great answers!

Describe yourself: Friday's Child

Describe how you feel: Maid in Waiting

Describe where you currently live: In the Mountains

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Where Angels fear to Tread

Your favourite form of transportation is: A Thousand Ships

Your favourite food is: Eating Things on Sticks

Your favourite time of day is: In Between the Sheets

Your best friend is: A Woman of Firsts

You and your friends are: She-merchants, buccaneers and gentlewomen

What’s the weather like: Rain: Four walks in English Weather

You fear: The Well of Loneliness

What is the best advice you have to give: Build Yourself a Boat

Thought for the day: How the World Thinks

What is life for you: Remarkable: Five women who dared to Make a Difference

How you would like to die: A Room Full of Bones

Your soul’s present condition: Can you Ever Forgive Me?

What was 2020 like for you? Beyond Black

What do you want from 2021? This Year it Will be Different

Describe yourself: I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

Describe how you feel: Shit, Actually by Lindy West

Describe where you currently live: Recursion by Blake Crouch

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

Your favorite food is: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Your favorite time of day is: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett

Your best friend is: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

You and your friends are: The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

What’s the weather like: Night Fall by Nelson DeMille

You fear: Cemetery Road by Greg Iles

What is the best advice you have to give: I'll give you advice when you Need to Know by Karen Cleveland

Thought for the day: Rules of Vengeance by Christopher Reich

What is life for you: The Ultimate Gift by Jim Stovall

How you would like to die: Encased in The Wax Pack by Brad Balukjian

Your soul’s present condition: The New Map by Daniel Yergen

What was 2020 like for you: The Stand by Stephen King

What do you want from 2021: How to be an AntiRacist by Ibram Kendi

>74 MJHagan: Haven't figured mine out yet but my favourite food may match yours! :-)

I love all of these answers!

>71 katiekrug: Katie, how was the Lockdown book? I've read only a couple of Peter Mays and am curious about whether to read this one as well.

>73 Helenliz: That's excellent advice.

>74 MJHagan: Laughing at how you feel. How callous!

>76 rabbitprincess: - It was okay. I don't remember much about it, which maybe says it all? Heh.

>67 lowelibrary: I love your advice and totally agree; also love your soul's present condition and am envious

>69 ELiz_M: Your weather answer is perfect, and I am in total agreement with your 2020 and 2021 answers

>71 katiekrug: How did you get the perfect answer for where you live? LOL

>73 Helenliz: You nailed 2020 and 2021

>74 MJHagan: I definitely would love to go to The Night Circus as well. Hope you are feeling better, though!

>26 Helenliz: I said the same thing last year. When you read a lot of urban fantasy, everything is dark, death, or blood. I had suggested we do a half-year meme in June/July to see if that would be less dark - great plan that didn't work out, like everything else in 2020!

>11 sturlington: The Spirit is a great form of transportation.

>14 casvelyn: So many great and funny answers. I don't know if you're Above Suspicion though . . . if you currently live in a Cozy Minimalist Home, why would you need to read about one? LOL.

>20 rabbitprincess: I want to steal some of your answers, but I didn't read the same books. Your friends sound like my friends. ;)

>28 mysterymax: Very nice. I think Death at Sea is the way to go.

>32 aspirit: It's Not All Rainbows is spot on for the weather. I think the only rainbow I saw this year was on TV.

>36 lsh63: So many good answers, but I think dying Guiltless is my favorite.

>40 Kristelh: Such a simple and perfect thing to want from 2021 - Contact.

>44 VivienneR: Dream Wheels is the perfect form of transportation for 2020.

>48 NinieB: My life is also the way it is Because of the Cats. It's their world - I just live in it.

>50 pamelad: Was going to tell you I liked your answers, but might just take your advice and Say Nothing. ;P

>59 dudes22: Some deep answers!

>63 DeltaQueen50: Living seems like such an obvious answer for what life is, but it really applies to this year.

>67 lowelibrary: I had to laugh when I saw Animal Children are your best friends and not your favorite food! I'm looking at you >14 casvelyn:. LOL.

>69 ELiz_M: I love that your favorite form of transportation is The Driver's Seat.

>71 katiekrug: Lots of good answers, but my favorite is that your best friend is Necessary as Blood.

>73 Helenliz: My favorite time of day is also spent In Between the Sheets because that's where I do most of my reading.

>74 MJHagan: Such honesty about how you feel. We've all been there.

I'll post my own list soon.

>79 sturlington: I’ve actually been feeling great... but that book needed to go somewhere on the list given the title... I originally had it as my favorite food (!) but then switched when I remembered I had read Salt this year. Happy 2021 everyone!

>81 MJHagan: It would have been alarming but funny to see it as your favorite food!

I am looking forward to 2021. Maybe I'll actually be able to complete my bingo card. I don't think I even got a single bingo in 2020, but my reading went way down.

Best wishes to all of us for a very happy new year!

>80 BookLizard: A half-year meme sounds like a great idea! Would be interesting to compare the two answers at the end of the year.

Ok I am done with 2020 forward to 2021 and the meme:

Describe yourself: The Girl Who Cirumnaviagated Fairyland in a ship of her own Making

Describe how you feel: The Traitor

Describe where you currently live: The Axis of Insanity

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The White Room

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat

Your favorite food is: The Harvest

Your favorite time of day is: The Twilight Kingdom

Your best friend is: Someone I Once Knew

You and your friends are: Little Women

What’s the weather like: Lies

You fear: The Mouthless Dead

What is the best advice you have to give: The Bekdel Test

Thought for the day: Ready Player Two

What is life for you: Heartstopper

How you would like to die: concealed Weapons

Your soul’s present condition: Time in a Bottle

What was 2020 like for you? Arrangements of War

What do you want from 2021? The Tea Dragon Society
Not bad considring I only read 33 books

Describe yourself: The Student, short story by Anton Chekhov

Describe how you feel: Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Describe where you currently live: Pleasantville by Attica Locke (I actually live in a very pleasant retirement community)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Scarlet Moving Van, a short story by John Cheever

Your favorite food is: Blue Marlin by Lee Smith (Marlin is a kind of fish; I don't think I've ever eaten it)

Your favorite time of day is: House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Your best friend is: Friend of My Youth, a short story by Alice Munro

You and your friends are: Women Rowing North: ... Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher

What’s the weather like: The Enduring Chill, short story by Flannery O'Connor

You fear: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty. (VivienneR also used this title; it was scary for me even before reading the book since somewhere I read that if someone is dead on unconscious for a long time, pet dogs will stay with stay with the person and pet cats have a tendency to start eating them beginning with the soft eye area)

What is the best advice you have to give: Nobody Hitchhikes Anymore by Ed Griffin-Nolan

Thought for the day: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

What is life for you: Turning the Tide by Edith Maxwell

How you would like to die: Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

Your soul’s present condition: Malnourished

What was 2020 like for you? Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (novel about the plague in 1666)

What do you want from 2021? On to Victory edited by Bettina Friedl

(It's a good thing I took the short story seminar at our retirement community or otherwise I would have had a really difficult time to come up with answers.)

I love all these answers and even got several BBs. It's curious how dark many of the responses are. A reflection of 2020 reality?

>76 rabbitprincess: There's an interesting story behind Peter May's book Lockdown at https://maypeter.com

While there's a slight chance I'll finish Dear Miss Kopp before my New Year's Eve party, I suspect I'll finish it tomorrow, and I know it won't be one of the meme answers.

So without further ado, here's the first 2020 year-end meme:

Describe yourself: Sugar and Vice

Describe how you feel: Full of Beans

Describe where you currently live: The Mountains Wild

Your favorite time of the day: The Enchanted Hour

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Off the Grid

Your favorite form of transportation: The Hidden Ways: Scotland's Forgotten Roads

Your best friend is: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

You and your friends are: The Innocents

Describe your job: Ancestry Quest

What are you eating? The Coroner's Lunch

What the weather's like: Fog Magic

You fear: A Killer in King's Cove

What is the best advice you have to give: Keep Calm and Carry On, Children

Thought for the day: Owl be home for Christmas

How you would like to die: Murder with Cinnamon Scones

Your soul's present condition: Guiltless

What was 2020 like for you? Garden of Lamentations

What do you want from 2021? Year of Wonders

Honorable mentions:

Describe where you currently live: The Asylum

Your favorite time of the day: The Remains of the Day

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Outer Banks

What are you eating? Modern Comfort Food

How you would like to die: Death by Frosted Doughnut

Describe yourself: Forged

Describe how you feel: Unprepared

Describe where you currently live: Here in the Real World

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Back to Our Future

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Fast and the Furriest

Your favorite food is: Of Salt and Shore

Your favorite time of day is: Wicked All Night

Your best friend is: Lightbringer

You and your friends are: Such a Fun Age

What’s the weather like: Where Winter Finds You

You fear: This Is How You Lose the Time War

What is the best advice you have to give: A Lady Never Surrenders

Thought for the day: Everything is the Worst

What is life for you: A Tale of Two Kitties

How you would like to die: A Hellion in Her Bed

Your soul’s present condition: A Heart So Fierce and Broken

What was 2020 like for you? Sucker Punch

What do you want from 2021? The Whole Cat and Caboodle

Everyone’s answers are so fun! Here’s my try:

Describe yourself: A Better Man

Describe how you feel: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

Describe where you currently live: Palaces for the People

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Your favorite form of transportation is:
On the Road With St Francis of Assisi

Your favorite food is: Chop Suey Nation

Your favorite time of day is: Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore

Your best friend is: Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related

You and your friends are: Eyes on the Street

What’s the weather like: Superior

You fear: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

What is the best advice you have to give: The Gospel of Trees

Thought for the day: Our House is on Fire

What is life for you: Rolling Blackouts

How you would like to die: Spinning Silver

Your soul’s present condition: From the Ashes

What was 2020 like for you? They Said This Would Be Fun

What do you want from 2021? A Million Years With You

Here's my take:

Describe yourself: The Girl in the Woods

Describe how you feel: Second Wind

Describe where you currently live: The House of Twenty Thousand Books

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Bookshop

Your favorite form of transportation is: Death Walks in Eastrepps

Your favorite food is: Five Red Herrings

Your favorite time of day is: Gaudy Night

Your best friend is: Gold Rush Girl

You and your friends are: The Pioneers (my high school team was the Pioneers)

What’s the weather like: Clouds of Witness

You fear: The Danger

What is the best advice you have to give: Suffer the Little Children

Thought for the day: Murder Must Advertise

What is life for you: A Question of Belief

How you would like to die: At Home

Your soul’s present condition: Amazing Grace

What was 2020 like for you? Beastly Things

What do you want from 2021? Love and Freindship (the misspelling is Austen's)

I love everybody's answers! They are so funny. Here is my year:

Describe yourself: The Adversary

Describe how you feel: Solitary

Describe where you currently live: The Blue Castle

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Sovietistan

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Ghost Road

Your favorite food is: Something Fresh

Your favorite time of day is: Promise at Dawn

Your best friend is: Son of a Trickster

You and your friends are: Apollo's Angels

What’s the weather like: And the Birds Rained Down

You fear: The Nature of the Beast

What is the best advice you have to give: Say Nothing (I agree with pamelad on that one)

Thought for the day: Reality is not what it Seems

What is life for you: A Great Reckoning

How you would like to die: Death in a Strange Country

Your soul’s present condition: No visible Bruises

What was 2020 like for you? Mad and Bad

What do you want from 2021? Good Omens

These answers are all so apt! Here's mine:

Describe yourself: Florence Nightingale

Describe how you feel: In Extremis

Describe where you currently live: The Home Place

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Saga Land

Your favorite form of transportation is: Walking Home

Your favorite food is: Bottled Up

Your favorite time of day is: Nightwalking

Your best friend is: The First Poet Laureate of Mars

You and your friends are: We

What’s the weather like: Between Extremes

You fear: Tooth and Blade

What is the best advice you have to give: Do No Harm

Thought for the day: Water Runs Slow Through Flat Land

What is life for you: The Living Mountain

How you would like to die: Dancing With Bees

Your soul’s present condition: Inspired

What was 2020 like for you? The Unwinding

What do you want from 2021? The Good Life Elsewhere

I love all these answers! Here are mine:

Describe yourself: By the Book (Amanda Sellet)

Describe how you feel: Chaos Reigning (Jessie Mihalik)

Describe where you currently live: Home Sweet Homicide (Craig Rice)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?: Chasing Starlight (Teri Bailey Black)

Your favorite form of transportation is: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne M. Valente)

Your favorite food is: Slightly Sinful (Mary Balogh)

Your favorite time of day is: Our Souls at Night (Kent Haruf)

Your best friend is: Slightly Scandalous (Mary Balogh)

You and your friends are: Headliners (Lucy Parker)

What's the weather like?: The Winter of the Witch (Katherine Arden)

You fear: Masks and Shadows (Stephanie Burgis)

What is the best advice you have to give?: Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend (Jenny Colgan)

Thought for the day: I’d Rather Be Reading (Anne Bogel)

What is life for you?: A Puzzle for Fools (Patrick Quentin)

How you would like to die: Death on a Friday Afternoon (Richard John Neuhaus)

Your soul’s present condition: Slightly Wicked (Mary Balogh)

What was 2020 like for you?: Just One Damned Thing after Another (Jodi Taylor)

What do you want from 2021?: Beauty (Robin McKinley)

Describe yourself: The Woman in the Window

Describe how you feel: Grounded

Describe where you currently live: Deep Freeze

If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Escape to the Wild

Your favorite form of transportation is: Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure

Your favorite food is: Salt: A World History

Your favorite time of day is: Never Too Late

Your best friend is: Lady of Sherwood

You and your friends are: The Humans

What’s the weather like: Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

You fear: The Werewolf of Bamberg

What is the best advice you have to give: Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange

Thought for the day: The Power of Meow

What is life for you: The Book of Hidden Wonders

How you would like to die: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Your soul’s present condition: Unbound

What was 2020 like for you? Kingdom Under Glass

What do you want from 2021? A Thousand Splendid Suns

>94 LibraryCin: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a lovely image for 2021!