“If you could invite any character(s) over for dinner, who would you choose?” that’s what we asked staff for the third part of our survey series. Here’s the guest list:
- Santiago – the Alchemist;
- Marilla Cuthbert – Anne of Green Gables;
- Dexter Morgan – Darkly Dreaming Dexter;
- Vivianne Rocher – Chocolat
Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer
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Nathaniel Bonner from Sara Donati’s ” Wilderness” series – Why would I share him with anyone else?
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Scarlett O’Hara, Blanche DuBois, Daisy Buchanan
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Sherlock & Mycroft Holmes
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- Dumbledore
- Gandalf,
- Jo (from Little Women)
- Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
- Hamlet
- Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy (from Pride & Prejudice)
- literary detective Thursday Next (from the Jasper Fforde books)
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Alice in Wonderland
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Seven Dwarfs
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Hugh Glass (from the Revenant) and Eric Hoffer (Working and Thinking on the Waterfront)
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- Count of Monte Cristo
- Thursday Next
- Alice (from Twilight)
- The Baron from Italo Calvino’s Baron in the Trees
- Marcovaldo
- Prof. Lupin and Ollivander from Harry Potter
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- Sherlock Holmes
- Jacob Black & Edward Cullen (though I would have to seat them at opposite ends of the table)
- Roarke – from J.D. Robb’s In Death series
- Jean-Claude from Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series
- David – Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden series
- Wrath & Rhage – J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series
- Frost – L.K.H’s Merry Gentry series
- Harry Dresden – The Dresden Files
- Daemon & Lucivar – The Black Jewels trilogy
So, let’s see, that’s: four vampires, one werewolf, one wizard, one faerie, one djinn, one Irish billionaire, two demons, and a legendary detective. Maybe I should invite Watson just so Holmes doesn’t feel left out…