Literary crushes
I'll be the first to admit that books may have twisted my grasp on reality a bit.
For instance, growing up, no mere man could ever compare to the heroes of my favorite books. And so every other month or so, a new literary crush would pop up.
Mr. Darcy wasn't exactly Prince Charming (although Colin Firth did amazing things with the role) -- but man, I wanted to be Elizabeth Bennett.
Not to mention Logan Bruno, the Kentucky cutie who swept the Baby-sitters Club's Mary Anne Spier off her feet? I wanted one!
And, as I recently discussed with kristinky on Twitter, how in the world did Jo resist Laurie?
Dave insists he never experienced the literary crush, and maybe it is more of a female rite of passage. But maybe you could prove I'm not crazy and share a few of your own.
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Comments
Oh Nancy, you took my top few! Darcy, Logan, Laurie ... I loved them all. But I also read Fantasy so I was in love with Perrin from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, and Legolas and Aragorn from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (and that was WAY before their sexy casting in the movies).
Posted by: Heather J. | December 15, 2008 10:18 AM
Mr. Knightley was always a favorite, but my new fav. is Edward Cullen from the Twilight series--and I'm in my thirties!
Posted by: Erika Robuck | December 15, 2008 3:20 PM
Scarlett may have outgrown her love for Ashley Wilkes, but I still think Rhett Butler isn't fit to wipe his boots!
Posted by: Michelle Johnston | December 17, 2008 11:39 AM
Lord Peter Whimsey...man, I had it bad for Lord Peter. I think Dorothy Sayers wrote herself the perfect guy and then wrote herself into the mysteries as Harriet Vane. Mind you, no real guy was that smart AND gallant. And forebearing.
Oh - one character from SciFi that really hooked me was Miles Vorkosigan - Lois McMaster Bujold created a very unique, quirky, humorous character that still had a lot of flaws. Somehow he managed to be hero and anti-hero simultaneously.
Posted by: Lauretta Nagel | December 17, 2008 1:45 PM
OK, I confess. As a kid, I did think about running away to the prairie with Laura Ingalls Wilder. It was purely platonic, though.
Posted by: Dave | December 17, 2008 6:51 PM