Indigo Ocean – Currents of Mind

Indigo Ocean emailed me an invitation to answer this meme:

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
Hmmm…Am I burning? I can’t remember F451 well enough to remember what I should be here!

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
Kerewin, the Maori protagonist of The Bone People by Keri Hulme

I read this book at a time in my life when I had violently lost someone I loved. Kerewin was a timely companion to see me through that grief.

The last book you bought is:
Thoreau’s Method: A Handbook for Nature Study by David Pepi

Just picked this up at a used bookstore and devoured it. Lovely work looking at a methodology for being in nature (and not just wilderness).

The last book you read:
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

“This story will make you believe in God.”

What are you currently reading?
The Way of the Earth by TC McLuhan
Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by JR Miller
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (with my daughter)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Five books you would take to a deserted island:
Flow by John Ashbery
A Poet in New York by Lorca
Cosmic Canticle by Ernesto Cardenal
Collected Poems of TS Eliot
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

(and also, could I have a CD filled with Project Gutenberg? And something to read it on?)

Lots of poetry. One could take these poets and spend a lifetime absorbing oneself in their works.

Who are you going to pass this meme to (3 persons) and why?
I think, Jon Husband because he reads more than anyone I know, Michael Herman, for the opposite reason and the first person to show up in my RSS feeder….which is…Jack Richhiuto