In Love With Guernsey
WARNING: SOME MINOR SPOILERS.
I just finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and I loved it, and it's going onto my official permanent recommendation list, which as of yet, is as follows:
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants by Dianna Wynne Jones
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Anyway, I love Guernsey. I want to go and visit there, if not maybe live there. I want to know all these characters. I want Juliet and Elizabeth as older sisters, and Sophie and Sidney as good friends, and I'd love to slap Adelaide Addison and/or throw tea at Gilly Gilbert. I want Isola as an aunt and Amelia as a grandmother, and Kit as a younger cousin and/or daughter. I want to know all the members of the society, and be in that society and participate in all their hilarious discussions. And most importantly, I want a Dawsey, who in my opinion, although I technically have no right saying this since I haven't read P&P or P&P&Z, is, well. This:
Dawsey > Darcy.
And he's joining a list, too, of my literary crushes (FP or otherwise... I can't believe I'm including FP but damn some of those boys. Sigh.):
Dawsey Adams from Guernsey
Marcus "Tootie Flootie" Flutie from the Jessica Darling series (but not as much after book 2)
Prince Char from Ella Enchanted
Jordan Cross from Kendal's Letters to You
Kevin Larson from Le Meg's Personal Bias
Grant MacPherson from mrdryrdrlng's Regan, White, and the Seven Deadly Sins
Scipio/Prosper from The Thief Lord (will get back to this later)
Jesse from The Mediator series
Joe Morelli from Stephanie Plum
Howl from Moving Castle
Tristran Thorn from Stardust (okay, technically I haven't read this, BUT I still love Tristan.)
(NOT MR. ROCHESTER, WHO IS CREEPY.)
I can't think of any classic ones. I'm sure more will come to me later.
And on the note of Scipio/Prosper, we watched a Chinese violin movie in Chinese school today, and I thought the boy was cute and realized he was 13 and I can't think of him as cute. (Technically he would be 20 now, but still.) DAMN.
Jamie
who knows she's old when she can't look at 13-year-olds. And that wasn't supposed to sound creepy at all.