C or C++?

This type of game would be suited to C++, in my opinion. I would create a base class, CObject, which would represent an object in the game. It could contain variables such as position, veloctiy, state and dimensions (size). Then for a book, I would derive a class from CObject named CBook which would contain attributes specific to a book. And derive another one for a wall.

As for the actual drawing to the screen, I'm entirely sure what you want to do. If you're actually planning on making an interactive console game, you'd be best off using a console library like NCurses. If this is purely a word game where the person simply types input at a prompt (not real time), then you could just use the default I/O functions that are available with the Standard Template Library.