{"id":8054,"date":"2020-08-12T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2020-08-12T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T22:41:08","slug":"the-book-character-i-would-most-like-to-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=8054","title":{"rendered":"The Book Character I Would Most Like to Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Page Turners<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Book Character Page Turners Would Most Like to Meet<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A survey for World Book Day asked \u2018leading lights of literary luminaries\u2019 to name the characters who gave them the greatest reading pleasure. The list included Pip (Great Expectations), Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice), Sherlock Holmes (Hound of the Baskervilles etc), Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) and Anne (Anne of Green Gables). The Page Turners were asked to select a character from a book that they would most like to meet.
\nSylvia would like a whodunit solved. She would like to meet Mlle de Poitiers, the French Mistress from the book, \u2018Picnic at Hanging Rock\u2019 by Joan Lindsay. Sylvia would be keen to talk with her about the \u2018event\u2019 and the pupils involved. The detective Endeavour, from the Morse series by Colin Dexter was Helen\u2019s choice. Helen believes he is a dour, irascible character who has the ability to collate a series of clues. Endeavour also has the prowess to effortlessly complete The Times crossword every day, and Helen would greatly appreciate meeting him to obtain some tips!! Tess would like a walk down memory lane and meet up with Sir Wilfred Thesiger author of \u2018Arabian Sands\u2019 and \u2018The Marsh Arabs\u2019. Tess spent many years in the Middle East and would like to chat with Sir Wilfred of their shared experiences of crossing the Empty Quarter (Rub-al-Khali) and travels in the Middle East. Babs selected the character Olive Ketteridge from the novel of the same name by Elizabeth Strout. This novel comprises of 13 short stories, highlighting characters living in Crosby, Maine. The common thread in each of the stories is Olive, a retired school teacher, who has impacted in many ways on the lives of different characters. Babs believes Olive is cranky, opinionated, complex and fascinating: and she thinks they would become friends if they ever met! Lynne chose Celie, an African-American woman living in the deep American south, from the novel \u2018The Colour Purple\u2019 by Alice Walker. Celie was born into poverty and segregation and spends most of her life being mistreated and abused by the men in her life. Celie eventually takes charge of her own destiny and becomes free of her abusive past. A strong, hopeful and combative character that Lynne believes would provoke some stimulating discussions. Sandra had just completed the \u2018The Testaments\u2019 by Margaret Attwood and would like to meet the divorced judge, Aunt Lydia. Aunt Lydia is imprisoned with other women in a stadium and endures weeks of squalid conditions. Aunt Lydia emerges as a woman who accepts that she must do what is necessary to stay alive. She becomes a mole. Sandra wonders why she chose to become a mole and behaved so badly, so cruelly and so stupidly. May would like to meet Miss Marple, a character from Agatha Christie books, including \u2018The Murder at the Vicarage\u2019. May imagines she would be good for a gossip and might also chat about some of the crime solutions she has been involved in (minus the gory details!)
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Page Turners The Book Character Page Turners Would Most Like to Meet A survey for World Book Day asked \u2018leading lights of literary luminaries\u2019 to name the characters who gave them the greatest reading pleasure. The list included Pip (Great Expectations), Elizabeth Bennett (Pride and Prejudice), Sherlock Holmes (Hound of the Baskervilles etc), Gandalf (Lord of the Rings) and Anne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-25U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9426,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=9426","url_meta":{"origin":8054,"position":0},"title":"Good Feelings Books","author":"Alan Williams","date":"28th March 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"THE PAGE TURNERS The Most Funny, Uplifting, Joyous, Happy Books The lockdowns and government restrictions have led to a huge boost in the number of people reading. 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