Unlocking Books discussion

Who would you be?

Are we talking characters that are already written? Ones we think we resemble? Or who we would want to be?

I was thinking characters already written, but honestly, I'd rather you answer the question based on how you take the question.

Easy.

Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson.

She's smart as hell, sexy, badass, and she knows what she wants. She can be cruel, but caring as well. She's a character I would love to be... or at least hang out with.

I ordered that book from our library, but it hasn't come back yet.

I would be Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius. Can't you see that mad-girl smile on me?

No fair. Pout.

You wanted to be Girl Genius? I'll let you be Zeetha. I could see you with a sword.

Laughs as she brandishes her sabre

Now you just need green hair, and you would make the perfect Zeetha.

I would be Max from Maximum Ride. :) She reminds me a lot of myself, lots of sarcasm, protects her friends, doesn't really like having voices in her head... haha, just kidding on the last one. :)

Voices in the head are a good thing when you want to be a writer, but you also get the voices-in-the-head syndrome when you have kids. "Mom, I want some milk." "Mom, can I have a treat?" "Mom, can I go outside?"

HAHAHAHA!!!! I think my mom has that. We will be at her work and i will be doing homework and she will look over at me and ask me if i said anything. I keep telling her to stop talking to those voices. She just doesn't listen very well. :)

Hmmm, this is a tough question a couple of months ago I would have said Harry Dresden, but Jim Butcher has been kind of mean to him lately. So, I guess I would have to say Adam Hauptman from Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series. I like how she handles pack magic, especially when it comes to the alphas. Adam has a proper respect for that power and doesn't abuse it. I've always liked werewolves and he is one of the coolest I've read.

So hard to say because as I read books I love, I could see myself as that character. If I had to pick one, I think it would be Luce in Fallen. I adore that book and character!

Fallen by which author? I hadn't read the book you referred to so I went to add it to my to-read list. Lo and behold, I found 10 books by that title before I finally gave up looking through the list!

Fallen by Lauren Kate! If you haven't read it you must. It's awesome. Although it seems to be that some people fall in the love it or hate it category. I first read it because it has a gorgeous cover (yes I'm a little shallow...lol) but the story is amazing. Let me know what you think of it when you read it.

My oldest daughter Makani memorizes every bit of information she reads and can spit it back out verbatim.

We homeschool our kids, and I was giving a science lesson on honey bees. I cut out a lot of information for the sake of the younger kids. Every five minutes, Makani had her hand in the air to remind me about something in the book that I hadn't said or to give her sisters a "pop quiz." Oh my gosh, I thought, she's Hermione!

I don't think she was showing off or anything. She was just so excited about the topic as science is her favorite subject.

Hmmmm....I'd like to be Max from the Maximum Ride series, because she is just amazing. And I'd like to be able to fly :) Or I'd like to be Jax, form my own novel, but that doesn't count. I think I resemble Astrid from Gone, for many reasons (including being a blonde)

My favorite character is Mercy from Patricia Brigg's Moon Called series. tough, smart, stubborn, and always gets back on her feet even when life puts her down hard. Running around as a coyote now and then might be fun too.

Wendy wrote: "My favorite character is Mercy from Patricia Brigg's Moon Called series. tough, smart, stubborn, and always gets back on her feet even when life puts her down hard. Running around as a coyote now a..."

Careful. Rita might get jealous.

There isn't a jealous bone in my body. Well, maybe one. But it's also my funny bone.

Well I would like to be Sandstorm from warriors.

I haven't read Warriors, Makani. Can you tell us something about Sandstorm?

I have!They're awesome! My favorite one is Leafdapple.

I would like to be Hermione Granger from Harry Potter, but I wouldn't want to kiss Ron.

What's wrong with Ron? Red hair's kinda cute, though I'm partial to black hair myself.

I don't know, just after all those slugs I think he might be a sloppy kisser. (haha)

Slug lips. Yum.

Okay, you win. Even if he wasn't a sloppy kisser, now I couldn't think of anything other than slugs if someone forced me to kiss him. *shivers*

I always imagine myself in epic stories - real apocalyptic stuff, fighting monsters and so on. But then I think about how absolutely horrid it would be, even if I romanticise it like crazy. I might be more like Jo in 'Little Women' or something....

S.M.,

I can see you as Jo. She doesn't fight monsters, but she has a heroic quality. She thinks for herself, speaks her mind, and is always her own person.

I liked Jo in Little Women. Then you can be the writer who creates these fantastical epic stories...

But then you already do, don't you?

Thanks Jeanne. I liked Jo very much.

I try, Rita!

Jeanne wrote: "S.M.,

I can see you as Jo. She doesn't fight monsters, but she has a heroic quality. She thinks for herself, speaks her mind, and is always her own person."

Good description of both Jo and S.M.

Rita,

Has Makani read Anna of Green Gables? I think she would love it. There's also a book by L.M. Montgomery called Story Girl.

Oooh, ooh, I just found this thread! I'm going to need to put some serious thought into this!

All I can say is, I don't want to be any of my own characters. I put them through too much.

Someone who loves me once said that I most reminded him of Agnes Wickfield. Now there's a model to aspire to. And from one of my all-time-favorite novels!

Jeanne wrote: "Rita,

Has Makani read Anna of Green Gables? I think she would love it. There's also a book by L.M. Montgomery called Story Girl."

I'd like to try them

Nasuesue wrote: "I don't know, just after all those slugs I think he might be a sloppy kisser. (haha)"

I like slugs, but I don't know about kissing them!

Rita wrote: "Okay, you win. Even if he wasn't a sloppy kisser, now I couldn't think of anything other than slugs if someone forced me to kiss him. *shiv...*"

Hey I'll tell the slug you said that

Rita wrote: "Now you just need green hair, and you would make the perfect Zeetha."

Laughing myself silly...

It's gone orange a few times (very long and boring stories), but never green. Hmmm...

Most of my friends tell me I would be Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and I don't disagree. But I'm thinking more along the lines of Sunny Baudelaire in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

I don't even know who I would I be haha!

I haven't read the Lemony Snicket books, but I did love the movie.

It has been on my to read list for a long time. I've been wanting to get it as an audiobook. I love having audiobooks in the car for my ride to work, but this one, I'd like to put in the van to share with my kids.

The Series of Unfortunate Events is a really good series. I highly enjoyed them.

My elder sister used to read them to me when I was younger. Rita you should really get the audiobooks because I'm sure your kids would love them.

I've looked for them at our library several times, but the audiobook selection starts at book 4. Strange thing is that I always order books I want rather than pick them off the shelf. That way, they can bring them over from any of the 20 or so libraries in the area. But for some reason, I have never done that with the Series of Unfortunate Events books.

We're traveling for New Year's. A 3-hour trip to visit the inlaws. That may be the perfect time to have a book on tape.

We gave the books away because I couldn't stand them. The neighbor kids loved them, But I could only read so many "you probably should stop reading now"'s & "You should close the book" 's before I said. FINE!

It was supposed to be funny, you know, if you want a happy story, find another book because this tale has only sad stories...and all that, but I found it irritating.

I did like the movie however, and the hands that were dropped on the floor by the bad guy were made by my cousin who does special effects. :)

Found the "drop the book now" statements amusing but I can understand how they could get tedious after a while, especially if you are reading all the books in one long stretch.

I haven't read the Penultimate Peril and The End yet because I've been mentally preparing myself.

Wendy wrote: "We gave the books away because I couldn't stand them. The neighbor kids loved them, But I could only read so many "you probably should stop reading now"'s & "You should close the book" 's before I ..."

You're related to someone who did the special effects on the movie? Even though my English teacher banned this word in high school, I'm going to say it anyway. COOL!