“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…