Showing posts with label characters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label characters. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Unlikable Characters We Hate and Love

Anna Karenina from Anna Karenina


Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby


Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol


Eleanor Oliphant in Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine




Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis


The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas


Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye


Olive Kitteridge in Olive Kitteridge


Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind


Severus Snape from Harry Potter


Undine Spragg in Custom of the Country


Willie Loman in Death of a Salesman


Gollum in Lord of the Rings



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.    

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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Books with Happy Characters


Even in difficult circumstances, characters in books can be surprisingly happy.

Take a look at the main characters in these books if you would like to be inspired:

Anne of Green Gables...
Pollyanna...
Heidi...
Sarah in The Little Princess...
Elnora in A Girl of the Limberlost...

even
Pippi Longstocking...
The Whos in How the Grinch Stole Christmas


Let me share a little of Anne of Green Gables...yes, I know there are some who find her annoyingly upbeat...but I find her refreshing...

"Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?"

"Don’t you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this?"

"It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"It gives you a lovely, comfortable feeling to apologize and be forgiven, doesn’t it?"

“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them."

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?"





Thank you to Raincheckandread.com for this topic today!


Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.    

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

My Favorite Books with Character Names In the Titles




It turns out that I have a lot of favorite books with character names in the titles...


Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavadra

Miss Tizzy by Libba Moore Gray

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans

Old Yeller by Fred Gibson

Candide by Voltaire

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

The Adventures of Treehorn by Florence Parry Heide

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya 

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood

A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Minarik

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer

Rhoda: A Life in Stories by Ellen Gilchrist

Joan is Okay by Weike Wang



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.    

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Characters I’d Love An Update On

Whatever became of my favorite fairy tale characters from my childhood?


Red Riding Hood...Bet she was reluctant to visit Grandma again...

Rumpelstiltskin...Did he change his name to something a bit easier on the tongue?

The Three Bears...Did they install a home security system?

The Emperor (from The Emperor's New Clothes)...How did he face his people the next day?

Rapunzel...Her long hair came in handy, but did she ever just get tired of the whole thing and get a bob?

Hansel and Gretel...Sentenced to justifiable manslaughter? 

Aladdin...Does he keep his magic lamp over the fireplace? 

The Three Pigs...Perhaps they do commercials for Acme Brick...

Sleeping Beauty...Hired a castle seamstress?

The Gingerbread Man...Well, we know what happened to him, but if he had a chance to do it over, would he have steered clear of wolves as well as people?



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.  

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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Characters Whose Jobs I Wish I Had: Characters With Bookish Jobs




Librarian, of course, would be my top choice. As it was in real life.

Mrs. Elm is a librarian where patrons can choose books to relive their lives in The Midnight Library.

Nicole Anisse is a librarian in Paris in The Paris Librarian.

Sylvia Blackwell is a librarian in a 1950s quaint English market town in The Librarian.

Alison Sheffield is a librarian in The Dewey Decimal System of Love.

Alice Wright is a packhorse librarian in The Giver of Stars.

Israel Armstrong is a bookmobile driver in The Case of the Missing Books.

Matthias is an archivist at the Princeton Library in The Archivist.


A bookshop owner/bookseller would be fun.

Nina Redmond was a librarian and then is a mobile bookshop owner in The Bookshop on the Corner.

Clay Jansen is a bookseller at a magical bookshop in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookshop.

Monsieur Perdu is a floating bookshop owner in Paris, mending broken hearts and souls, in The Little Paris Bookshop. 

Sarah Smith is a small-town bookshop owner who temporarily runs a bookshop in Paris for a friend in The Little Bookshop on the Seine.

Emilia is a bookshop owner in her small town in the Cotswolds in How to Find Love in a Bookshop. 


How about coffee shop owner?

Kei is a coffee shop owner in Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

Monica is a cafe owner in The Authenticity Project.


There are lots of other bookish jobs I'd like.

Maud Bailey is a scholar researching the lives of Victorian poets in Possession.

Casey Peabody is a (wanna-be) writer in Writers and Lovers.

Ramona Keene is a literary journey planner in Eighty Days to Elsewhere.

The Queen is the Queen of England who is guided in her decision-making by her obsessive reading in The Uncommon Reader. 



Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10! Celebrating 463 Top Ten Lists on Readerbuzz





Looking back through my past posts, I learn that (apparently) I missed the first nine prompts for Top Ten. But after that, I rarely missed a week. 

To celebrate ten years of Top Ten Tuesday, I've spent hours and hours and hours looking through my old Top Ten Tuesday posts. I've created a list of the Top Ten Topics on Top Ten Tuesdays and I've sorted (most of) my past posts accordingly.


TOP TEN TOPICS ON TOP TEN TUESDAYS:
LISTS, LISTS, AND MORE LISTS:
463 LISTS ON READERBUZZ

Top Ten Seasonal/Annual Lists


and 85 more seasonal/yearly lists like this...



Top Ten Lists of Various Genres

Top Ten Favorite Love Stories in Books

Top Ten Favorite Books-about-Books












Top Ten Lists about Authors

Top Ten Favorite Authors

Top Ten Authors That Deserve More Recognition

Top Ten Lists about Characters

Top Ten Villains and Criminals and Other Sorts of Bad Guys

Top Ten Characters I'd Name My Children After





Top Ten Lists of Words, First Lines, Titles, and Book Quotes



Top Ten Lists about Books You Might Have Overlooked

Books I Feel As Though Everyone Has Read But Me



Top Ten Lists of Books That Could Be Difficult to Read






Top Ten Lists of Surprising Books

Top Ten Lists of Books-to-Movies



Top Ten Lists About Books in a Series







Top Ten Lists of Children's Books

The First Books I Had on My Bookshelf

Books from My Childhood I'd Love to Revisit

Top Ten Books I Wish I'd Read as a Kid






Top Ten Lists You Shouldn't Bother Reading Because My Answer Was Basically "None" 

Top Ten Books I Want To Reread





Top Ten Lists of Paris Books

Top Ten Books That Take Place in Paris

Most Hyped Books about Paris I Haven't Yet Read

Last Ten Books about Paris I Acquired: What to Read? What to Read?

French Books I've Enjoyed That You Might Have Missed

Top French-ish Things I Love

Ten Great Books Set in Paris

Ten French-ish Things Reading French-ish Books Have Led Me To Do

Books That Could Use a Little More...Paris

My Favorite Posts from the Past About France

Books with Eiffel Towers on the Cover: A Where's Waldo Adventure

Children's Books Set in Paris: Books I Haven't Read Yet

Des Livres Courts Sur Paris Qui Sont Babuleux (Short Books About Paris That Are Fabulous)

Books That Take Me Straight into the World of Paris

Favorite French Stories from Childhood

Wonderful French Book Characters

I Can't Resist Buying Books With French Things on the Cover

My Favorite Settings in Paris

Paris + Food: A Love Story



Top Ten Lists about Blogging

Top Ten Reasons I Love Being A Book Blogger and a Bookish Person

Top Ten Blogs/Sites You Read That AREN'T about Books




Top Ten Lists of Book Settings





Top Ten Lists Where I Geek Out About Book-ish Things



Miscellaneous Top Ten Lists





Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each Tuesday That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic and then post her top ten list that fits that topic. You’re more than welcome to join her and create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list as well. Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you! Please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own post so that others know where to find more information.
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