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My Top Ten Literary Valentines
Feb. 14th, 2011 06:57 pmThe gals at GeekMom, which I believe I have mentioned is my new favorite non-strictly-book-related blog, really know how to make a fellow geeky mom feel NOT ALONE in the universe. This week they have been all freely admitting that they tend to fall madly in love with fictional characters. When I first saw this post, I knew I had to make yet a different literary favorites list before I could get back to my List of Favorite Books. See, said blogger above has written a whole song about FICTIONAL CRUSHES. Of course, she goes on to talk all about BAD BOY fictional crushes. I don't get crushes on the bad boys. Never have. Not counting overgrown troublemakers like my husband. No, I always went for sweet-and-sensitive. It's kind of pathetic. I also go for guys with a sense of humor, so that makes it a LITTLE less disgusting, I guess.
Then someone else over there posted this, a list much closer to my own. And today there's another one! I still think mine is the sappiest though. Also, the other lists cover, broadly, not only books but also movie and TV and whathaveyou characters. I am sticking to book characters, because it's simpler, and doesn't confuse matters with what might actually be my feelings for the actors themselves rather than the characters. And I also must point out that my list is about these characters purely as they are in book form, not movie versions, because that would TOTALLY put this list out of whack (I'm pretty sure two of them have never appeared in film before nor are in the works to, and one more is GOING to be appearing in film soon but I don't think he's been cast yet, and even when he is there's that, um, AGE ISSUE. Two more of those I know very WELL have been portrayed on film but I have somehow not yet MANAGED TO SEE THEM even though I dearly wanted to when they were on PBS a couple years ago. Of the ones left over I see-- TWO whose most well-known film versions I find every bit as crushworthy as their paper forms, and one who's been portrayed on film a frickin' LOT of times but only two of those portrayals I still swoon for and as I also already have crushes on both actors in question I'm not sure how trustworthy that is. The rest-- just no).
Also, one more caveat before I begin: this is not a list of my favorite CHARACTERS. As a matter of fact, my #3 has got at LEAST three other characters in his own story that I'd put before him on a Favorite Character list, including the character I NAMED MY SON AFTER, so you see what I mean. These are, on the other hand, the Top Ten Characters Who Turn Me Into a Blubbering Pile of Feminine Goo. Well, sometimes I'm calmer than that. Sometimes.
( List of Fictional Sexy Under this Cut! )
Then someone else over there posted this, a list much closer to my own. And today there's another one! I still think mine is the sappiest though. Also, the other lists cover, broadly, not only books but also movie and TV and whathaveyou characters. I am sticking to book characters, because it's simpler, and doesn't confuse matters with what might actually be my feelings for the actors themselves rather than the characters. And I also must point out that my list is about these characters purely as they are in book form, not movie versions, because that would TOTALLY put this list out of whack (I'm pretty sure two of them have never appeared in film before nor are in the works to, and one more is GOING to be appearing in film soon but I don't think he's been cast yet, and even when he is there's that, um, AGE ISSUE. Two more of those I know very WELL have been portrayed on film but I have somehow not yet MANAGED TO SEE THEM even though I dearly wanted to when they were on PBS a couple years ago. Of the ones left over I see-- TWO whose most well-known film versions I find every bit as crushworthy as their paper forms, and one who's been portrayed on film a frickin' LOT of times but only two of those portrayals I still swoon for and as I also already have crushes on both actors in question I'm not sure how trustworthy that is. The rest-- just no).
Also, one more caveat before I begin: this is not a list of my favorite CHARACTERS. As a matter of fact, my #3 has got at LEAST three other characters in his own story that I'd put before him on a Favorite Character list, including the character I NAMED MY SON AFTER, so you see what I mean. These are, on the other hand, the Top Ten Characters Who Turn Me Into a Blubbering Pile of Feminine Goo. Well, sometimes I'm calmer than that. Sometimes.
( List of Fictional Sexy Under this Cut! )
