We always know our favorite books but what about book characters?

For some reason, even after years after finishing the series, I still remember Rose Hathaway from The Vampire Academy. I most definitely have outgrown the series but I still love her spunk and humor. Mead’s development of the character was just so beautifully done.

Also, Jamie Fraser… because, I mean, who wouldn’t? 😮‍💨

  • Ok-Theory3183@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Jo March from “Little Women.” Jo is lively, has a bad temper, and refuses to conform to norms.
    She is modeled after the author, Louisa May Alcott, who in the 19th century, was the first woman to register to vote in her county, supported her family through her writings, although she preferred her “Blood and Thunder” stories (written under A.M. Barnard) better than her more famous children’s books, which she referred to as “moral pap for the young”. There is a chapter in her last “March Family” chronicles, “Jo’s Boys”, which describes some of the true details of someone who has become suddenly famous.
    One of Miss Alcott’s more well-known quotes is that "I would rather remain a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.
    Jo is the role model for strong minded, independent women everywhere. She eventually married because of pressure from the publishers, but Miss Alcott remained “a free spinster who paddled her own canoe” until she died at age 57 (I believe it was) from mercury poisoning which was a result of her service as a nurse during the American Civil War during the 1860’s. And Jo shows Louisa in all her glory.

  • pa-eonia@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yes to Jamie Fraser but also Rebecca Bloomwood from the Shopaholic series. She’s just so sunny and bright and capable I just love her haha

  • Peppery_penguin@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Eli Sisters from Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers. His struggles and his witty commentary get me every time.

  • Xerozvz@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Spot from “All the dust that falls” to summerize it’s a roomba that gets isekai’d and freaks everyone out by doing roomba things,like cleaning the floor and eating up their magic circle barriers drawn on the floor, it then gets misinterpretted as god-tier demon by locals. Spot is a good boy and only wants to help humans and clean messes

    • Et_set-setera@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I was so determined not to like him (I hate Aaron Warner), but Kaz’ charm was strong enough to get through even to me.

  • basil_not_the_plant@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Jack Shaftoe,aka The King of the Vagabonds, Half-Cocked Jack, l’Emmerdeur, Quicksilver, Jack the Coiner…

    The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson

  • luisrreyes@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    My favorite character is Lisel from “The Book Thief” written by “Markus Zusak”

  • ncgrits01@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    James Alexander Malcolm McKenzie Fraser, indeed. ❤️

    Also:

    Murderbot

    Jack Reacher

    Mary Russell

    Christopher Snow