Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Characters I Wish Were Real People, with the prompt: feel free to tell us why! Would you date them, be friends with them, etc.?
There are plenty of book characters I’d love to meet! Here are ten who make my list:
- Claire Fraser (Outlander by Diana Gabaldon): Claire is smart, strong, and great person to have by your side in case of emergency.
- Signy (As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers): I love her knowledge of (and love for) plants and how she uses this to improve people’s lives.
- Chauncey (The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune): Just because he’s adorable and funny. Who doesn’t need a bellhop in their lives?
- Margaret (Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry): I loved the parts of this book where Margaret reveals her past. I think she’d be a hoot to share fancy cocktails with and hear more of her stories.
- Catherine Morland (Northanger Abbey): She’s so over the top, but I have a feeling she’d be lots of fun to swap books with.
- Serkis (Swordheart by T. Kingfisher): I mean, I’d love a living sword as a traveling companion, and just find the concept so fabulous.
- Rosie (We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman): This fictional author has oodles of money to throw around and is utterly outrageous. I’d love to hop on her private jet and zoom off for adventure at a moment’s notice.
- Theo (Theo of Golden by Allen Levi): Theo’s kindness is the heart of this book. I’d love to spend a day or two hanging out with Theo and keeping him company while he carries out his good deeds.
- Pepper (Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel): I found the main character in this off-beat book so interesting, and love her ability to take charge of her life and show that she may be older, but she still has agency and so much to offer.
- Rainy (The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer): She actually seems perfect for this prompt, because she really does go into books and meet fictional characters… so why not apply her magic and meet her in our world?
Chauncey – best bellhop ever!
Image from Kingdom of Threads – House in the Cerulean Sea collection: https://kingdomofthreads.com/collections/cerulean-chronicles-by-tj-klune/products/chauncey-bellman-sticker-tj-klune
What fictional characters would you love to meet in real life? Do we have any in common?
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Rainy sounds lovely.
She’s a great character, and the entire book is wonderful! Thank you for suggesting this fun prompt!