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Book meme! Day 14
Aug. 7th, 2010 05:56 pmDay 14 - Favorite character in a book (of any sex or gender)
(edited because I realized the way I'd named some of the characters listed below was a spoiler for the first two books of their series...)
Ack. The thing is, I totally fall in (mad not-quite-platonic-crush) love with characters.
And not in that cool, I-want-to-be-you way. Generally in that awkward, 12-year-old, I-think-I-love-you-and-I-just-want-to-be-near-you way.
Swordfish and Moke from Wilhelmina Baird's books. The most complete romantic swoon when I was in high school. One is a tall brooding scarred killer who ghosts around invisible and protecting her and making sardonic comments... the other is a lanky, slouchy, underdressed artistic genius who's brilliant about people and good at making friends.
I'm glad that Crashcourse and its sequels were published as SF when I was a kid, because I didn't read romance then. Both guys are definitely lovely expressions of character types that are more common in romance.
Corwin from the Chronicles of Amber. George from the Tortall books (though not so much as a dad... boy, fatherhood made him kinda protective).
Mary Poppins. She's a really weird person underneath that starch. I would love to have the power of telepathy just to be able to read her thoughts. Polly in Fire and Hemlock, and her best friend from college. Dairine from High Wizardry - if she were a real person she would have ended up starting some awesome tech company and would now be traveling the globe in style using her wealth with benevolence.
Venetia, in the eponymous novel by Georgette Heyer, because she doesn't actually expect her rakish lover to reform and because she's full of wit and empathy and self-determination. Cimorene, in Dealing with Dragons, who decides that fencing and cooking and latin are much more interesting than wishy-washy princes and heads off with a supply of handkerchiefs and a few spells and the advice of a talking frog to seek her fortune.
Helen, from the Attolia books, more royalty should have been like her.
Yeah, basically, if a character has moments of pride, is witty, occasionally self-mocking, pretty good at a few particular interests, decisive, and at least occasionally self-confident, they woo me most of the time.
( Book meme list )
(edited because I realized the way I'd named some of the characters listed below was a spoiler for the first two books of their series...)
Ack. The thing is, I totally fall in (mad not-quite-platonic-crush) love with characters.
And not in that cool, I-want-to-be-you way. Generally in that awkward, 12-year-old, I-think-I-love-you-and-I-just-want-to-be-near-you way.
Swordfish and Moke from Wilhelmina Baird's books. The most complete romantic swoon when I was in high school. One is a tall brooding scarred killer who ghosts around invisible and protecting her and making sardonic comments... the other is a lanky, slouchy, underdressed artistic genius who's brilliant about people and good at making friends.
I'm glad that Crashcourse and its sequels were published as SF when I was a kid, because I didn't read romance then. Both guys are definitely lovely expressions of character types that are more common in romance.
Corwin from the Chronicles of Amber. George from the Tortall books (though not so much as a dad... boy, fatherhood made him kinda protective).
Mary Poppins. She's a really weird person underneath that starch. I would love to have the power of telepathy just to be able to read her thoughts. Polly in Fire and Hemlock, and her best friend from college. Dairine from High Wizardry - if she were a real person she would have ended up starting some awesome tech company and would now be traveling the globe in style using her wealth with benevolence.
Venetia, in the eponymous novel by Georgette Heyer, because she doesn't actually expect her rakish lover to reform and because she's full of wit and empathy and self-determination. Cimorene, in Dealing with Dragons, who decides that fencing and cooking and latin are much more interesting than wishy-washy princes and heads off with a supply of handkerchiefs and a few spells and the advice of a talking frog to seek her fortune.
Helen, from the Attolia books, more royalty should have been like her.
Yeah, basically, if a character has moments of pride, is witty, occasionally self-mocking, pretty good at a few particular interests, decisive, and at least occasionally self-confident, they woo me most of the time.
( Book meme list )
