30 Day Book Challenge: Day 14

Last year I found this book challenge (since then I have seen many variations of it, but I like this one best!), and have been intrigued about how I would answer the questions posed. Obviously, I started this challenge over 30 days ago...I just wasn't inspired. It isn't as easy to write about books as I thought.


Feel free to comment with your own answer or post the challenge to your own blog.


Favorite Character in a Book


Male
Hmm...is it Fitzwilliam Darcy, “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”?

Or...

Mark Darcy, “I like you very much. Just as you are."?


Either way I win, right?


I am only slightly ashamed that I picked the male character for the 'swoon factor' and I'm picking the female character for her mind...

Female
The March sisters are the first characters my sisters and I ever fell in love with and they are perfect. We'd sometimes pretend that we were the March sisters (minus Meg...we didn't really relate to Meg). I was Jo (and, frankly, in a lot of ways still am) and my two sisters were Beth and Amy, respectively. I have always identified with Jo, and in turn, Louisa May Alcott. I just love these ladies soooo much!

We watched this on video disc. We watched it a lot.
The story ends when Beth gets sick, so I spent most of the 80s not knowing the whole story, but I love this...we also watched the Japanese version of The Wizard of Oz. It had singing. What can I say?

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Marmee...sigh...

Day 01 – A book series you wish had gone on longer OR a book series you wish would just freaking end already (or both!)

Day 02 – A book or series you wish more people were reading and talking about
Day 03 – The best book you've read in the last 12 months
Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever
Day 05 – A book or series you hate
Day 06 – Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 07 – Least favorite plot device employed by way too many books you actually enjoyed otherwise
Day 08 – A book everyone should read at least once
Day 09 – Best scene ever
Day 10 – A book you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11– A book that disappointed you
Day 12 – A book or series of books you've read more than five times
Day 13 – Favorite childhood book OR current favorite YA book (or both!)
Day 14 – Favorite character in a book 
Day 15 – Your “comfort” book
Day 16 – Favorite poem or collection of poetry
Day 17 – Favorite story or collection of stories (short stories, novellas, novelettes, etc.)
Day 18 – Favorite beginning scene in a book
Day 19 – Favorite book cover (bonus points for posting an image!)
Day 20 – Favorite kiss
Day 21 – Favorite romantic/sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 22 – Favorite non-sexual relationship (including asexual romantic relationships)
Day 23 – Most annoying character ever
Day 24 – Best quote from a novel
Day 25 – Any five books from your “to be read” stack
Day 26 – OMG WTF? OR most irritating/awful/annoying book ending
Day 27 – If a book contains ______, you will always read it (and a book or books that contain it)!
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
Day 29 – Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)
Day 30 – What book are you reading right now?

Crushes I've Had On Male Characters from Songs...

I was out blog surfing one day and come across this fun little post (Crushes I've Had On Female Characters from Songs) and thought I'd give you my own list of male characters that have made me swoon...now, mind you some of these characters I started crushing on when I was a kid, so be prepared for a crazy ride. After reading through my list, I can see why I never dated in high school.

The Dan Fogelberg from “Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg

Why: He's a sentimental kind of guy who, even after becoming famous, still pines for the one that got away.

Clincher Lyric: “Just for a moment I was back in school/And felt that old familiar pain/And as I turned to make my way back home/the now turned into rain." I love a good bit of nostalgia and this is definitely it.

Why It Wouldn’t Work Out: He's already deeply in love with someone else, obviously, and one day she will leave that architect and where will I be?

Daniel from “Daniel" by Elton John

Why: He's a war hero who is probably misunderstood. 

Clincher Lyric: “Daniel, you're a star in the face of the sky". If a brother can look up to someone that much, he must be some kind of awesome.

Why It Wouldn’t Work Out: War heroes have BIG scars and this war hero got injured to boot, not sure he'd really be thinking of me at all, besides he's in Spain.

Jesse from “Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield

Why: He's attractive, but humble. He's sincere, yet self-deprecating. He listens. He's unlike every other boy. 

Clincher Lyric: “Jesse is a friend/Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine." Geez, even guys like him.

Why It Wouldn’t Work Out: Um, he's taken, by someone pretty awesome, it would seem.

The spoon playing man from “Spoonman" by Soundgarden

Why: He's a Gen-Xer who loves everyone and everything and is probably good with his hands, which means he probably gives great massages...and, builds things.

Clincher Lyric: “Feel the rhythm with your hands". I also feel that Spoonman can sing and is quite talented at all things right-brained.

Why It Wouldn’t Work Out: He's a Gen-Xer who plays spoons for a living...spoons for Pete's sake.

The young quarterback from “All Kinds of Time" by Fountains of Wayne

Why: He is a jock who thinks. Sigh.

Clincher Lyric: “He thinks of his mother/He thinks of his bride-to-be/He thinks of his father/His two younger brothers/Gathered around the widescreen TV.

Why It Wouldn’t Work Out: He actually plays sports, I can barely sit through a whole sporting event...unless it's baseball.

Not quite my type...

Sue, Bad Leroy Brown, any guy from an Eminem song                                               They fight way too much, go to prison, get their children taken away and still come out swinging...not cool.

Any guy from a Beyonce song                                                                                Either they're crazy possessive, too mushy and in my business or jerks.      

Who are your song crushes?