It’s time for the annual meme, providing an excellent excuse to ignore my thesis revisions for half an hour.

The rules: Using only books you have read this year (2013), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title.

Describe yourself: The ‘Improper’ Feminine (Lynn Pykett)

How do you feel: You Are Not So Smart (David McRaney)

Describe where you currently live: New Grub Street (George Gissing)

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

Your favourite form of transportation: Flight Behaviour (Barbara Kingsolver)

Your best friend is: My Lady (Emma Willsher Atkinson)

You and your friends are: Mrs Grundy’s Enemies (Anthony Patterson)

What’s the weather like: A Case of Hysteria (Sigmund Freud)

You fear: The Examined Life (Stephen Grosz)

What is the best advice you have to give: March, Women, March (Lucinda Hawksley)

Thought for the day: We Are All Weird (Seth Godin)

How I would like to die: Planned Obsolescence (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)

My soul’s present condition: The Beautiful Soul (Florence Marryat)