Liz:Hey look! I get to go first today! Gianna's love connection attempts to find me a soul mate will have to wait at least a paragraph or two. (I've convinced friends to play board games with me for the first time in six months and need to finish my half of the post before Gianna's ready.)
Today's topic is our favorite female character, and this one's easy for me. I'm going to reveal here for the first time that Stieg Larsson modeled his protagonist from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo after me. Naturally I love myself. Shall we look at the evidence?
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| Liz....beth. |
- Lizbeth Salander. It even sounds like Elizabeth Sullivan.
- Lizbeth has a twin sister named Camilla. I have a twin sister named Kathryn.
- Lizbeth is brilliant. I know, this one's obvious.
- Lizbeth is socially awkward and tends to behave outside the bounds of social norms. I once gave a presentation to nuns in which I discussed Harry Hole.
- We have rage issues.
- We are both single. Daniel Craig may or may not have been our true love.
- Lizbeth has a dragon tattoo. The dragon is my Chinese Zodiac sign.
- Lizbeth's heritage is dark, the daughter of a Russian mobster and prostitute. I grew up in East Texas.
- Gianna is in love with Lizbeth. Gianna is in love with me.
I feel such relief. The truth shall set you free and all that. Please don't send me fan letters, though. I want to maintain my privacy.
Gianna:
I try not to read books with
female protagonists, so this category will be tough. Okay the first few
that come to mind, and I know Liz is going to totally make fun of mine, but she
only makes fun of me because she has a not so secret crush on me. Also, I have
not seen Liz’s picks yet, but twenty bucks says she picks Mrs. Dalloway. [wow....how wrong was I?]
I love Lillian from one of my favorite novels, Away by Amy Bloom. I think Lillian is the kind of woman (or man, really) that I aspire to. She’s smart and fearless. She escapes Russia after the murder of her entire family, including her daughter. While in New York she meets a woman who claims Lillian’s daughter is still alive in Russia. Lillian is able to “negotiate” transportation all the way to Alaska, but with no other option she must walk the rest of the way along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia.
I try not to read books with
female protagonists, so this category will be tough. Okay the first few
that come to mind, and I know Liz is going to totally make fun of mine, but she
only makes fun of me because she has a not so secret crush on me. Also, I have
not seen Liz’s picks yet, but twenty bucks says she picks Mrs. Dalloway. [wow....how wrong was I?]
Okay, you are a punk if you
don’t love every single female character in Fried
Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Ruth, Idgie, Evelyn, Mrs.
Threadgoode, and of course ‘secrets in the sauce’ Sipsey.
I love Lillian from one of my favorite novels, Away by Amy Bloom. I think Lillian is the kind of woman (or man, really) that I aspire to. She’s smart and fearless. She escapes Russia after the murder of her entire family, including her daughter. While in New York she meets a woman who claims Lillian’s daughter is still alive in Russia. Lillian is able to “negotiate” transportation all the way to Alaska, but with no other option she must walk the rest of the way along the Telegraph Trail toward Siberia.
The last two thoughts in
my head about awesome ladies are; Jo, from Little
Women by Louisa May Alcott, and pretty
much any woman that Margaret Atwood writes. If you have to ask why you’re in
trouble.
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