As for characters in books, well there’s always Maggie from Love and Rockets and of course Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

Though getting into the literary spirit of the question and so turning to books without pictures or drawings, I find the question surprisingly challenging. Perhaps it’s the word crush, as a crush for me is the result of visual stimulation. I have different words to use when describing other emotional excitements. However, I can say that Rosalind in As You Like It definitely has it going on, and Moll Flanders has a certain thing or two about her.

The last book you bought is?

I don’t tend to buy one book at a time, though I do generally buy books in odd numbered quantities. On my most recent bookshop raid, my haul included:

1) A Dylan Thomas Treasury
2) a sweet scent of death – Guillermo Arriaga
3) The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and other stories – Tim Burton
4) AA Gill is away
5) Manual of the Warrior of the Light – Paulo Coelho
6) Get Your Cock Out: a romance by Mark Manning (aka Zodiac Mindwarp)

All in all there were nine books. Considering I was trawling the bookshops of Soho, the books are possibly rather tame. Though the actual titles of the other three books somehow escape me.

What are you currently reading?

1) Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
2) The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramango
3) Get your Cock Out: a romance by Mark Manning
4) a corporate finance and management accounting manual of which the actual title eludes me.

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

Only five? Well the first five to come to mind are:

1) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (as it is a book I can read and enjoy again and again)
2) Ulysees by James Joyce (as I have never managed to read it and perhaps some isolation will help my concentration)
3) The Complete Works of Issac Assimov vol 1 (for something a little different)
4) The Bloody Chamber and other stories by Angela Carter (just because)
5) And poetry. I’d need some poetry. Oh, who would I chose? . . . eeny meeny miney mo . . . uh . . . the Complete Works of William Blake it is.

Of course, I’d want more than five books. I’d invariably leave one lying around somewhere and not be able to find it when I wanted it, so perhaps substitutes may be allowed. Some drama to keep the voices in my head entertained would help. And I could probably make some good use of the Ladybird Book of Practical Boatbuilding.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 persons) and why?

Ah. Ooo. Tricky.
Hang on. Dan seems like he can read. Lets find out. Oi! Dan! Catch!
Umm... we'll see about number two in a while . . . oh go on then Pix
And I also throw the stick out to whoever reads this, just to see where it lands.