Snagged

I don't normally do these things because I've dedicated WoM content to my blog/writing project - and I have an habit of allowing myself to get sidetracked as a form of avoidance. But I don't wanna be a blog snob. Also, I justified it because part of one of the answers is related to my project.

Sent to me by Danielle:

1. What book would I like to be?
I don't know what book I'd like to be.
I am probably a combination of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Cosmicomics.

2. Have I ever had a crush on a fictional character?
I don't usually crush on people in books.  Movies is another story.

Y.T. from Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.

Update: More about Y.T. -

"In Snow Crash she is working for a courier service, RadiKS, or Radikal Kourier Systems. She delivers messages and other small items using a skateboard. The skateboard is high-tech and YT gets around by using a magnetic (har-) "poon" to latch onto cars and ride behind them on her board. A dangerous kind of surfing. She is instrumental in defeating Rife's [bad guy's] scheme. She is quite capable of handling herself in even the most dangerous situations."

3. What is the last book I bought?
Advanced SharePoint Solutions by Scot P Hillier

4. What is the last book I read?
(Advanced SharePoint Solutions and) Persepolis: Story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi 

5. What am I currently reading?
10 years of my own sporadic journal entries, and a memoir manuscript I am working on.

6. What 5 books would I take with me if I were stranded on an island?
This list would change depending on when I was asked, but today:
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Order out of Chaos by Ilya Prigogine
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
And a big fat blank book to write in.

7. What 3 people am I going to tag and ask to answer these questions and why?
George W. Bush
ny rebma at suspended
For the last one, you probably don't know her. Unless you know my sister. Or if you are my sister.