Ten Book Characters I Wish Were Real People

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over on that artsy reader girl, which features a different bookish theme every week. This week’s theme is: Ten book characters I wish were real people (and feel free to tell us why! Would you date them, be friends with them, etc.?).

Number 1
Aphrael
The Elenium & The Tamuli series’ by David & Leigh Eddings

Because, if she existed, I would 100% be one of her worshippers. She’d have me wrapped around her little fingers and I. Would. Love. It.

Number 2
Arthur Weasley
The Harry Potter series

Because he is such a kind, generous, and just genuinely good person, and I would totally adopt him as a father figure.

Number 3
Falkor
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Because everybody should be friends with a luck dragon.

Number 4
Harry Potter
The Harry Potter series

Because, if Harry Potter is real, then so is magic, and I so want to believe it exists somewhere in the world, even if I can’t have it.

Number 5
Silk
The Belgariad & The Mallorean series’ by David & Leigh Eddings

Because Silk may be cunning, exasperating, and infuriating, but he’s also awesome and would be that one friend that would not just help you hide the body, but help you make everyone think the person was still alive and therefore no crime was committed.

Number 6
Tom the Piper
The White Bird of Kinship series by Richard Cowper

Because I may not have read these books since I was a teenager but, to this day, I still remember how much I felt in my soul. And I want to feel that for real.

Number 7
Pollyanna
The Glad Books by Eleanor H. Porter et al.

Because she would be a bright ray of sunshine in a dreary world.

Number 8
Bandit
An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating by Cecilia Edward

Because that cat is snarky as hell and I love him to bits.

Number 9
Merry & Pippin
The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien

Yeah, I just couldn’t bring myself to separate them. But, yeah, the reason: Because they are chaos incarnate, but so much fun, and they’ll have your back in a scrape, no questions asked. At least, not until afterwards lol.

Number 10
The man in
The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Because I know he’s nameless because he’s supposed to be everyman, but he just seems so sweet and sad and kind, and I just want to mother him like crazy.

And now, I’ll leave you with a little teaser from one of my current reads as part of Teaser Tuesday. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two “teaser” sentences or paragraphs from somewhere on that page. This used to be hosted by The Purple Booker but the link doesn’t seem to work for me anymore and my security software has blocked the domain. If anyone knows where it has moved to, please let me know, so I can link through to it.

Even numbers have symmetry, 1 has unity, 3 balance, 5 and 9 have mathematical uniformity. But 7 is much harder to pigeon-hole, and therefore lends itself well to representing an unspecific number of things.

— The Book of Numbers: From Zero to Infinity, an Entertaining List of Every Number That Counts by Tim Glynne-Jones, p. 42