Before we get into it, I just want to say I love this prompt so much. Thanks so much Kirsty! I had so much fun revisiting some old buddies.
My whole life books have been my everything. As a child, the characters in books were my friends, they took me on adventures and taught me things I needed to know. As an adult, I read the way most people breathe oxygen, constantly and without realising I’m doing it most of the time. When I was a kid, my mum used to take my brother and I to the LifeLine Book Fest every year. She’d give us a box each and tell us to fill it up with whatever we wanted. Forget Christmas or my birthday, Lifeline Book Fest was my favourite day of the year.
Lucy Pevensie
Chronicles of Narnia
Lucy Pevensie was my hero growing up. She’s whip-smart, compassionate, kind, brave and is all round one of the best written female characters I think I’ve ever seen.
Anne Shirley
Anne of Green Gables
Growing up, there were very few role models with red hair. I pretty much had Anne Shirley or Ginger Meggs. For that reason I adored Anne, mostly because she hated her hair too and through her I came to terms with mine.
Nymphadora Tonks
Harry Potter series
Harry Potter came out just before I left high school and I devoured it in the school library. While I love Hermoine, my favourite character was always Tonks. She was amazingly comfortable in her own skin which to teenage me was a true magical power. She was the cool big sister I never had.
Tiffany Aching
Discworld Series
I’ll be talking more about my particular love of the Discworld books on Wednesday when I review the final one in the series, but for now let me just say Tiffany was the hero I needed in my twenties. She’s incredibly intelligent and capable and spends her life caring for others.
Art3mis
Ready Player One
I only very recently stumbled across this novel and Art3mis is definitely the character that I relate to most in my thirties. She’s a female gamer acting as a gunter, which appears to be a male dominated area and she’s geeky, smart and strong. And she’s a blogger!
Which fictional characters would you choose to befriend? Share in the comments or join the link up over at My Home Truths!
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I love Ann Shirley I forgot about her. I picked Katy the Naughtiest girl is a Monitor.
I love Enid Blyton! It was a toss up between Lucy and Bessie from the Faraway Tree series.
Tonks is the best. Especially in the Harry Potter world, where many things come across as very regimented.
That’s what I loved about her! She was always just that little bit different and just did not care what anyone thought. I love that that came across in the movie as well. The sort of person who spends an entire meal entertaining other people’s children and making them laugh during a hard time.
Everyone it seems love Anne. I’m just writing my post .
Anne came to mind immediately.
She’s amazing isn’t she? When I was a kid I used to imagine her being my ‘bosom friend’
I don’t even know who Tonks is. It might be time I actually read the books or watched the movies.
*le gasp*
Go now and read them!!!!! 😛
I love love Anne of Green Gables and her fiery red hair. Fabulous choice.
Thanks very much!
Oh some fantastic role models here!
I agree! I don’t think I’d be the same person without their influence growing up.
I haven’t read any HP! Tonks seems pretty cool. I love the Enid Blyton characters from any of her books. Even the bad ones seem to get called out on their behaviour and learn a lesson.
They are great books for kids in that way – Roald Dahl is the same in a lot of ways.
Huge reader here, just like you! I used to work in a library and said to a customer once that I loved it when books I’d been waiting to read were ready for me to take home – it felt like Christmas. They looked at me weird and said “you must have really sad Christmases”! What the!!!
SHE must have had sad Christmases with no books! 😉 What’s that quote – the man who doesn’t read lives only once, a reader lives a thousand times before he dies.
I completely forgot about The Chronicles of Narnia! I have been watching the movies with Mr 6 and I get so frustrated with how rigid Peter and Susan are compared to Lucy. Sometimes it almost felt like they didn’t belong in a story like Narnia!
I agree!
Anne and Hermione here (obvs) but I’m intrigued by Art3mis – she does sound very cool!
It was so hard to choose between Hermoine and Tonks! Sophie’s Choice indeed!
Love the Lifeline Bookfairs! Our boys have a ball choosing books there.
They are the best! Can’t wait until my dude is old enough.