Today’s topic of discussion comes compliments of my outrageously intelligent and well-read friend Peggy O’Connell, who posted the following bit on her LiveJournal blog a week ago. I thought it posed such a good question that I asked Peg’s permission to reprint it here. Can’t wait to see what responses you come up with to this one!<\/p>\n
\nI was feeling particularly disinclined to get out of bed this morning, so I was lounging around pretending to be<\/em> Nero Wolfe<\/em><\/a>, lying in my yellow pajamas and bellowing for Archie. Then I thought that if I had an Archie, I’d be particularly disinclined to get out of bed. <\/p>\n
This led to a discussion with my husband Kevin about literary crushes. I fully admit that if<\/em> Archie Goodwin<\/em><\/a> or<\/em> Peter Whimsey<\/em><\/a> were real (and living now), I’d totally leave my husband to be their love slaves. I have literary crushes on them.<\/p>\n
I challenged Kev to name his female literary crushes, and he couldn’t. We both lay there for a good 10 minutes racking our brains, trying to come up with a female worthy of literary crush. I even went and scanned the book shelves.<\/p>\n
So I throw the question open, particularly to the males out there. What female literary character do you have a hankering for? Comic books are completely ok, but no fair using characters that have subsequently been in movies if you liked them because you liked the actress.<\/p>\n