Probably Alice in Through the Looking Glass. I have two small kids, so I’m never sure exactly what’s happened, happening, or happening next; no matter what I plan or think I have figured out, the circumstances always change; I feel like I’m repeatedly watching two people fight elaborate battles over imaginary nothings; no one talks in anything but pure nonsense; and yes, it’s always jam yesterday (on pb&j), jam tomorrow (when I go to the store), but never is there jam for my toast today!
Darby Logan It’s the Amelia Peabody series written by Elizabeth Peters. She and her husband are archeologists and live in England, but do yearly trips to Egypt to excavate old ruins.
I am a mixture of Jane and Mary Bennett. I am genuinely nice and good at assuming the best of people, but I’m also kind of a pedant who likes to talk too much about her interests.
Also Katniss Aberdeen, from the hunger games and Tess, was that her name? from divergent, for those who judge me for saying the girl with the dragon tattoo 🙂
I have actually never thought of this before and I can’t seem to come up with an answer. Maybe the magic of reading for me is that it allows me to completely separate from myself.
Young me was June from Tell the Wolves I’m home. I see my teen and twenties self in her. Older me may have been a bit of Miss Havisham. Older still me has finally embraced my inner Luna Lovegood, walking my own path, well traveled or not. But one of the best things about books is seeing yourself in many different characters, heroes and villians.
I’m not sure anyone will be familiar with this children’s book, but I would have to say Emily from Look Through My Window by Jean Little. It has stayed with me for decades. Loved her and the book.
Lisa Nelson Ha,Ha! I once told my co-workers they could not eat lunch because they had not helped me with it or the event it was made for. I said, “You know the story of The Little Red Hen.” Granted, we were all preschool teachers and I probably relented.
Dolores from Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. Not that the things that happen in her life have all happened to me, but that she finally learns to accept that her life had become wonderful and found peace. Plus she had weight issues!
Certainly not Snow White or Cinderella since I have yet to be visited by housecleaning critters! And I could really use them, but alas they never show.
Beatrice from much ado about nothing was my second choice. I have theory that Kate and Beatrice would be BFFs if they ever met. I’d often toyed with the idea of writing that fan fic.
Great pick! I thought her book would be more of a love story with Denys. Made me think how Western thinking differed from African thinking. Beryl Markum “Circling the Sun” was about Denys.
Well, I could point out my own books. Since I’m the writer, all my characters have a piece of me. 😀 You didn’t specify species, so I’m picking Winnie the Poo.
I read tons of children’s and YA literature. I took a number of children’s lit classes in library school (did not complete the program but expanded my knowledge by having four children and reading to them endlessly). Some authors I love (not necessarily just YA though): Lloyd Alexander, Noel Streatfeild, Elizabeth Enright, Monica Hughes, Shannon Hale, E.L. Konigsburg, E. Nesbit, Nancy Farmer, Susan Cooper, Gary Blackwood.
cool- I’d like to be Professor McGonagall, but am actually more like Madame Pomfrey, as a nurse who spends a lot of time fussing with children in a school setting. A lot of times I am like “Emma”, who gets it wrong quite a bit.
.. Caroline Ingalls (mother, in Little House on the Prairie) .. when my daughter was little, I made dresses for her (from calico prints), I cooked and baked using an old wood stove, grew a large vegetable garden .. now, I’m learning to spin wool into yarn, weave, knit ..
Kinsey Millhone of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series. She is independant, an introvert and a simple person who likes the simple life. She loves to read and is not so great at relationships. I do wish I had her job though, as a private eye.
When “Steel Magnolias” came out, I was in my 20’s and yet so many people, including my best friends, told me I had to see that movie because, for them, I WAS (and still currently am) Weeza Boudreaux! And I had to agree. Still do.???
Maybe Laura from Dr.Zhivago (great love lost scenario)?I’ve read so many books over the years, I’m sure there are many others i just can’t think of now. Generally I identify with strong, independent, outspoken, take charge people who are kind and sensitive but won’t take any “stuff” from anyone and who champions those who are more timid or are picked on. What fictional character fills that description? Maybe Jack Reacher??? I’m not as big as him, I’m not as physically as strong or skilled as him, and I’m not a him—but I have the same general attitude as him.
I just reread Bridget Jones’s Diary after having read it in 2000 or 2001 (or earlier?)- it’s been so long! It still had me laughing out loud after all these years!
Majime in a Great Passage by Shion Miura. He loves words and languages, his love for is wife is deep and hidden, he has a messy desk, he has 1000’s of books.
The girl with the dragon tattoo .
Then you are a STRONG and smart woman!!
@Liz ?
Wow! She was damaged!
@Catherine I was going to say or – katniss eberdeen
Jo Marsh
Bilbao Baggins
Theo in the Goldfinch
Hermione granger
Meg Murry
Eeyore
Tiffany Aching
I can really relate to Kinsey Millhone.
Me too!
I even had an older friend who first introduced me to Kinsey and other female mystery writers. He has since passed.
I can think of few moments in my life where I felt more distressed than when I heard Sue Grafton had died. No Z.. no closure for Kinsey. ?
Olive Kitteridge
Yeah, her too
Anne Shirley
Charlie from “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
Jo March
Anne Shirley and Alice
Aurora Greenway
Ramona Quimby ?
Elinor Dashwood
That’s my answer, too.
Probably Alice in Through the Looking Glass. I have two small kids, so I’m never sure exactly what’s happened, happening, or happening next; no matter what I plan or think I have figured out, the circumstances always change; I feel like I’m repeatedly watching two people fight elaborate battles over imaginary nothings; no one talks in anything but pure nonsense; and yes, it’s always jam yesterday (on pb&j), jam tomorrow (when I go to the store), but never is there jam for my toast today!
Either Scout from “Mockingbird” or Anne Shirley
Jo March
Laura Ingalls
Bilbo Baggins.
Anne Shirley
I have yet to find one that I felt was like me. I’m still looking.
Scarlett Ohara, no explanation!!
Francie from a tree grows in brooklyn
Vianne Rocher in Chocolat
Cornelius Suttree
Anne of Green Gables
Hermini Granger if she was old
All four of the March sisters
Great answer!
@Mary I feel I’ve been one of them in the different seasons of my life! Struggling with a vice, but yearning to be better.
I agree!
Amelia Peabody …. she’s a smart, independent woman who challenges social customs in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
What book is this?!
Darby Logan It’s the Amelia Peabody series written by Elizabeth Peters. She and her husband are archeologists and live in England, but do yearly trips to Egypt to excavate old ruins.
@Deb getting this one ! Thank you Deb!
I love the series!
Author wrote those under name of Elizabeth Peters. My favorite series.
Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice.
I have pride and prejudice checked out
a true classic and alway enjoyable to read and view.
@Atlanta it is one of my very favorite books! Austen isn’t for everyone, but give her a chance and I promise it’s worth it!
@Abbie I may have dipped my toe in her before, but now I’m committed to it for the great american read.
I am a mixture of Jane and Mary Bennett. I am genuinely nice and good at assuming the best of people, but I’m also kind of a pedant who likes to talk too much about her interests.
Hermione Granger
Horton the Elephant
Mole in
Wind in the Willows.
Professor McGonegal (Harry Potter, of course)
I’m going to reread the first harry potter book for the great american read.
@Atlanta , that makes me happy!
Adeline Whiteoak (Jalna series)
Evelyn Couch or Bridget Jones
Francie Nolan.
Dolores Clayborne
Geez. . .that’s a heavy pick.
Some days LOL
Catherine in “The English Patient “.
Interesting pick.
Kinsey Milhone
My spirit animal!!!
Who’s that again?
Ove
I loved Ove ❤️
@Mary I read it 4 times in two years 🙂 Bear Town is almost as good though…
Walter Mitty
anything
Sally Fields plays…
Man,..? Good one…
Daria Morgendorfer
Or….Stephanie Plum
Yzma, Emperor’s New Groove. 🙂
Any number of Anne Tyler’s female characters.
I’ve no idea! But what a great question!
Holden Caulfield: major depressive outlier trying to find meaning in a seemingly meaningless world
From what book? Similar reason I picked Quentin coldwater from the magicians
The Catcher in the Rye
I hope you find meaning. I believe we’re all here to learn. Reading, you must be doing that!
Amelia Cooke in “Remember the Ladies”
Scout Finch
Ishmael from Moby Dick or Jia Baoyu from Dream of Red Chamber
I LOVE Red Chamber!!
Joan Anderson in A Year by the Sea
Elinor Dashwood.
Me, too
Some days Eowyn of Rohan, others, Luna Lovegood.
Yeah I’m going to reread the fellowship of the ring too
Luna ❤️
Alexia Tarabotti of the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. She’s a smarty pants with no soul but a cool battle parasol. Hello? LOL
Wow. Great question. I have to give that some thought.
Who’s that?
Holden Caulfield definitely!
Catcher in the rye?
Me, too!
Yeah from Catcher in the Rye ?
Quentin Coldwater, for better or worse ??♀️
@Atlanta Belle from Beauty and the Beast!
Melinda Sordino from Speak
I’m so sorry if you’re gone through a similar experience! ?
@Lamarise That’s what I thought.
Luna Lovegood
Love Luna!
Hmm.. have to think about this one…good question!
It’s a toss up between Jo March, Anne Shirley, and Eleanor Oliphant
Scout Finch. As a child, I said half of her quotes
Also Katniss Aberdeen, from the hunger games and Tess, was that her name? from divergent, for those who judge me for saying the girl with the dragon tattoo 🙂
I think it was Tris from Divergent. ?
@Suzan Thank you!
Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Anne Shirley
Also, Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice!
Scout from To Kill A Monkingbird.
Helene Hanff in her book 84 Charing Cross Road
Olive Kitteridge
That mini series was soooooo gooood!! I just loved her. Wish I had her balls!
Charlie Brown
Lucy!
Molly Weasley!
? You are a great Mom just like her!
Vera from the books and the series
I love Vera <3
@Susan I guess I relate to her in several ways….she’s good at what she does, but is complicated.
Miss Maudie from To Kill a Mockingbird
My husband always calls me “Scarlet” because I would rather think about it tomorrow!
Ms. Havisham.
It’s a mix between: Francie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jane Eyre, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Also, a bit of Thomas Hardy’s Tess.
Elizabeth Bennett
Hermoine Granger
Dorothy!
Minnie Jackson, from The Help.
Fat, jolly, doesn’t tolerate stupid, must be Falstaff ?
Sarah Connor from The Terminator by Harlem Ellison. I would do anything to defend my family and even my country if the need would arise.
Scarlett -Damn that woman was determined
the maid in gone with the wind
Hagrid
Perhaps Holden Caulfield at times.?
I want to give you a hug now ?? Watching Holden struggle makes my heart ache.
Meg in A Wrinkle in Time
Captain Ahab….
THIS IS AN AMAZING EXERCISE!! thank you!!
Scarlett O’Hara, I never give up, and I know tomorrow I get another chance.
yeah I am going to try to get to gone with the wind for the great american read
I have actually never thought of this before and I can’t seem to come up with an answer. Maybe the magic of reading for me is that it allows me to completely separate from myself.
absolutely
Yes 100%
Thanks! I never thought of it either.
Olive Kitteridge
Jo from Little Women and Meg from A Wrinkle in Time.
I see myself Anne Eliot but I’m really Charlotte Lucas if I’m honest about it.
Love this.
Worst book, rare movie ever better than the book, Elle Woods from Legally Blonde.
Professor McGonagall
Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird. Always trying to figure out why people do what they do.
Hermione Granger. When in doubt, go to the library. 🙂
Young me was June from Tell the Wolves I’m home. I see my teen and twenties self in her. Older me may have been a bit of Miss Havisham. Older still me has finally embraced my inner Luna Lovegood, walking my own path, well traveled or not. But one of the best things about books is seeing yourself in many different characters, heroes and villians.
I would like to think I am a little like Aurora Greenway. She is my idol.
I am Jane Eyre.
Scarlett O’Hara but not as evil. Lol.
I identified with Jo March from the first time I read Little Women. I think I really identified with Louisa May Alcott.
Lauren in If Only It Were True
Ramona Quimby, age 8.
Jo March of Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
Kinsey Millhone
Hard question. I’m a little bit of so many characters. ??
Sybil? ?
@Suzan ???
Rebecca
Oscar Gordon of Glory Road
Anne Shirley
James Bond.
Ichabod Crane-Guy Montag- Charles Darnay-Offred.
PS: Why isn’t “A Tale of Two Cities” on the list?????
I too was dissapointed to not see any Dickenson on the 100 list.
??
Jo March
Temperance Brennan
One of the ugly sisters. ?
I don’t believe it. I’m sure you are a beautiful person in many ways!
@Suzan I’m a self deprecater. Not sure that’s even a word! ?
@Susan, I understand what you mean and I hope you don’t truly believe it. Sending you a hug and good wishes from a complete stranger. ?
I’m not sure anyone will be familiar with this children’s book, but I would have to say Emily from Look Through My Window by Jean Little. It has stayed with me for decades. Loved her and the book.
And thank you for the question.
I need to look this one up.
Emily Pollifax
Anne of green gables
Jo March
More Holly Gibney from Mr. Mercedes than any other character.
Holly is just wonderful.
The Little Red Hen ?❤️
GOOD ONE!!!! I can relate!
Lisa Nelson Ha,Ha! I once told my co-workers they could not eat lunch because they had not helped me with it or the event it was made for. I said, “You know the story of The Little Red Hen.” Granted, we were all preschool teachers and I probably relented.
Hermione Granger
Luna Lovegood
I like her!!!!
One of my favorite book characters!
Lisbeth Salander
Elizabeth, Pride & Prejudice
Maybe Jo March without the temper. Little Women.
Tough one, when I was a kid maybe Alice. I was always questioning things and I like an adventure.
Dolores from Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone. Not that the things that happen in her life have all happened to me, but that she finally learns to accept that her life had become wonderful and found peace. Plus she had weight issues!
She’s a wonderful character.
@Sara She is. I only read it once, when it came out. But I remember her. I think I may just read it again.
I think I’m like Mrs. March, the mother in Little Women.
Kinsey Millhone especially when I wear my “all-purpose dress” and drink bad Chardonnay. ?
Lucy van Pelt and my brother, Destrey, had a pumpkin head just like Charlie Brown and was just as trusting.
Certainly not Snow White or Cinderella since I have yet to be visited by housecleaning critters! And I could really use them, but alas they never show.
Laurell K. Hamiliton’s Anita Blake for her rage and practicality.
Jo March
Britte-Marie.
The second Mrs. DeWinter from Rebecca. But I’d rather be Eowyn from The Lord of the Rings.
Scarlett O’hara
????
Kate in The Taming Of The Shrew.
Beatrice from much ado about nothing was my second choice. I have theory that Kate and Beatrice would be BFFs if they ever met. I’d often toyed with the idea of writing that fan fic.
It’s Bouquet!
“Mind the pedestrian, Richard!”
Lady of the house speaking!
Poor Richard!!
I wish I was Kate…
I would like to think I was Jo March’s mother.
I have always encouraged my children and grandchildren to read and keep journals.
We’re soulmates. That’s who I chose for myself, though I may not always live up to it I aspire to be like her.
Hermione Granger…………..
Mr. Woodhouse from Austen’s _Emma_
Claire from Outlander
Piglet
Although I knit a LOT, and people have sometimes teased me that I’m Madame DeFarge…..
Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Anne Shirley.
Scout
Ms. Who
Marianne Dashwood
I’d like to be something like Alexandra Bergson in O PIONEERS!
Renee in The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I want to be Ponyboy from thecOutsiders
Cyrano who captured the hearts of a wonderful woman because he could articulate his feelings even though he wasn’t the attractive one. Done it twice.
Always identified with Raskolnikov. What’s that say about me??????
I’m intrigued.
Mostly the way he stumbled around Moscow in a daze justifying his actions. I don’t feel like that anymore thankfully
Scout.
I like to think of myself as rather like Hermione Granger…strong, independent, smart.
In actual fact, I suspect I’m a lot more like a random woman David Sedaris would write about.
Maurice Hall
Holden Caufield
Rudy Steiner
Having raised four boys, and having read the book thousands of times – Max’s mother in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. ?
I have a friend, @Susan, who could relate.
I always loved Belle because she loved books.
When I was a teen, Jane Eyre or the unnamed second Mrs. de Winter. Now-a-days, 5 decades later, I am much fiercer!
Milady de Winter?
Right this minute, I can’t think of a counterpart to me. But I am certainly not that shy person I was, way back when.
Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings and Scout from To Kill a mockingbird. And a little bit of Katniss Everdeen, I can be fierce.
Kathy Mallory
Scout- To Kill a Mockingbird
Patrick Bateman
I believe Winnie the Pooh would be the most like me. Or Patti Jane, from Patti Jane’s House of Curl.
Ramona the Pest!
Arthur Dent The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ?
Equal parts/mix of Meg from A Wrinkle in Time, Dicey from Homecoming & Dicey’s Song (Voigt), & Tenar from The Tombs of Atuan (LeGuin).
Charley Davidson
Anne Shirley, still:)
Always
Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird
Love Scout, Nancy.
I wanted to be Jo in Little women- was a bit like her as a child-
My cousins and myself play acted Little women when we were kids. I was Jo. Thanks for a trip in to happy memory lane?
Ramona Quimby
Jacques Cormery
Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice
Mrs. Weasly
Anne Shirley
Same! To my husband’s chagrin! ?
Violet Clay
Me, too! ?
Karen Blixen—or Isak Dinesen. I know Out of Africa was a memoir, but our life journey has so many parallels.
Great pick! I thought her book would be more of a love story with Denys. Made me think how Western thinking differed from African thinking. Beryl Markum “Circling the Sun” was about Denys.
@Anne I loved reading “Circling the Sun!” Truly remarkable lives the women had. And Denys….❤️❤️??
Me too!
Alice in Wonderland
Inner self, or outer self?
Either one.
Pip, in Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.
Scarlett O’Hara
John Doe
Mysterious!
Suzan, you seriously have the best posts!?
Thanks, Debbie!
Emma, in the novel of the same name.
I picked Mr. Woodhouse!
I can only pick one?
I didn’t. 😉
Pick as many as you want. ?
Well, I could point out my own books. Since I’m the writer, all my characters have a piece of me. 😀 You didn’t specify species, so I’m picking Winnie the Poo.
Kinsey Milhone
Mary Poppins….haha…
My father always said I was part Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music” and part “Mary Poppins!” Your comment reminded me.
…Just a spoonful of sugar…..
Harriet the Spy & Diana Bishop
Jo March of Little Women
@Tina Only watched the 1st episode. Didn’t consider it worth watching any further.
Did not finish watching it. The book was so much better
I read tons of children’s and YA literature. I took a number of children’s lit classes in library school (did not complete the program but expanded my knowledge by having four children and reading to them endlessly). Some authors I love (not necessarily just YA though): Lloyd Alexander, Noel Streatfeild, Elizabeth Enright, Monica Hughes, Shannon Hale, E.L. Konigsburg, E. Nesbit, Nancy Farmer, Susan Cooper, Gary Blackwood.
cool- I’d like to be Professor McGonagall, but am actually more like Madame Pomfrey, as a nurse who spends a lot of time fussing with children in a school setting. A lot of times I am like “Emma”, who gets it wrong quite a bit.
Lestat de Lioncourt
Harriet the Spy
Amelia Bedelia
.. Caroline Ingalls (mother, in Little House on the Prairie) .. when my daughter was little, I made dresses for her (from calico prints), I cooked and baked using an old wood stove, grew a large vegetable garden .. now, I’m learning to spin wool into yarn, weave, knit ..
Lately? Stephanie Plum
I love this question! This would be a fun writing prompt for my students. For myself, I would have to think on this one.
Scout-To Kill A Monkingbird
Same
Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows!
Babette in Babette’s feast
Annie MacLean in The Horse Whisperer.
This is a FANTASTIC question – so many but Scout Finch rings true or Huck Finn (true blue friend).
This happened accidentally and I don’t know how to get rid of it. I’m often technologically disadvantaged
Anne Elliot or Eleanor Dashwood and
Lucy.
Great question!
Hermione Granger.
My life is too small to warrant a book.
Or another: Alice
Kinsey Millhone of Sue Grafton’s alphabet mystery series. She is independant, an introvert and a simple person who likes the simple life. She loves to read and is not so great at relationships. I do wish I had her job though, as a private eye.
What bookwork, know it all doesn’t identify with Hermione? ?
Tiffany in The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Hermione Granger
Auntie Mame!
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
Me too!
When “Steel Magnolias” came out, I was in my 20’s and yet so many people, including my best friends, told me I had to see that movie because, for them, I WAS (and still currently am) Weeza Boudreaux! And I had to agree. Still do.???
Good one
Maybe Laura from Dr.Zhivago (great love lost scenario)?I’ve read so many books over the years, I’m sure there are many others i just can’t think of now. Generally I identify with strong, independent, outspoken, take charge people who are kind and sensitive but won’t take any “stuff” from anyone and who champions those who are more timid or are picked on. What fictional character fills that description? Maybe Jack Reacher??? I’m not as big as him, I’m not as physically as strong or skilled as him, and I’m not a him—but I have the same general attitude as him.
Eleanor from Eleanor and Park. That book was a little too close for comfort.
Tick Roby in Empire Falls…just a nobody in a nothing town.
Jo from little women
Bridget Jones!
I just reread Bridget Jones’s Diary after having read it in 2000 or 2001 (or earlier?)- it’s been so long! It still had me laughing out loud after all these years!
requires some serious thought
Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables
The big three: Francie Nolan, Jo March, and Anne Shirley.
Jesus.
Ayla
Jo March and felt that way after first reading about the March girls…
Holly Gibney and Nymphadora Tonks
Wonder Woman
Grassina Verderia in The Salamander Spell by E.D. Baker
Funny Girl Fannyb Brice
Okay….yeah, this is DEFINITELY me! I even speak to my sons’ friends in the same gentle voice after I have fussed at my boys. ?
I said I was the sweet and gentle Mrs March but I have to admit that there’s a lot of Mrs Weasley in me.
Jane Eyre
I would like to be Diana Bishop.
Oh yaaaaasssss
No explanation necessary, right?
Nope Though I thought the question was what character reminds you of yourself not who would you most like to be ?
it was but this was more exciting
Benny from Circle of Friends
Loved that book.
I was a student in Denmark the year the movie came out… I went on to be a chef
Book “The Freedom Writers Diary”
Character: Erin Gruwell the teacher who wrote the book and was played by Hilary Swank in the movie “Freedom Riders”.
How fun to read all of these! People have really given this some thought.
Jane Eyre – maybe because it seems like she’s always been in my life.
Frankie from”a tree grows in Brooklyn “
Opps, was Frannie
Beth Sigl Fritsch , Francie Nolan. She would be mine.
Vera in the Ann Cleeves bookes
Majime in a Great Passage by Shion Miura. He loves words and languages, his love for is wife is deep and hidden, he has a messy desk, he has 1000’s of books.
Luna Lovegood