Top 10 fictional characters you would have over for
dinner
1. Turtle
Wexler from The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (I know, she’s T.R. Wexler now,
but she’d still be fun to talk to)
2. Mrs. de
Winter from Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (and maybe she’ll finally tell me her
actual name!)
3. Sula
from Sula by Toni Morrison (she would definitely stir things up)
4. Merricat
Blackwood from We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (but I’d
definitely have a food taster handy)
5. Meg
O’Keefe nee Wallace from A Wrinkle in Time, etc. by Madeleine L’Engle (I’d take
her at any age, really)
6. Will
Stanton from The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper (I basically wanted to
be him for my whole childhood)
7. Hermione
Granger from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (I would have wanted to be her for my
whole childhood, had she existed in my childhood)
8. Sherlock
Holmes (because I’m not sure you can really love mysteries and not want to meet
Sherlock Holmes. But I wouldn’t mind having the Benedict Cumberbatch version at
the dinner party…)
9. Charles
Kinbote from Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (I have a lot of questions for him…)
10. Merlyn
from The Once and Future King by T.H. White (because magic. But I’d take
Merriman Lyon from The Dark Is Rising too. Any version of Merlin would work)
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This is a must-read for me. If I attended the above dinner party, I'd probably fangirl over Hermione and try to hog her attention.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway! I love Turtle Wexler too and I don't see her around on many people's top characters list.
ReplyDeleteNice Post.Thanks for sharing in your Blog
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