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BTT – In Other Worlds…
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
I would love, love, love to live in Harry Potter’s world, or in Far World (see my review later this month), however I think I would prefer to wait until the end of the series so there is resolution in that whole battle between good and evil business.
Places I would not want to live… The worlds I mentioned previous as long as dark forces roam around committing havoc.
The problem is, I’m not sure that I would trust any author to write my character. The thing is, authors like to write interesting books. Interesting requires conflict. Lots of it. I would prefer not to seek out extra conflict by being a character, there’s enough of it in like as it is!
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That’s a good point about conflict…I think I’d just want someone who could capture my humanness, my quirkiness, and bring it all together in the end. John Irving is a top choice.
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I am doing a review of Farworld later on this month too!!! I would be interesting to live in Farworld especially being non magical. Nothing could effect you. Just think someone like Lord Voldemort wouldn’t have been able to harm Muggles.
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Have you started it yet? I finished it in one day and (future review spoiler) loved it!
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I agree – authors are not trustworthy. With my luck, they’d write me out by the end of the first chapter!
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I’d love to live in Harry Potter’s world too, but definitely after Voldemort’s demise. And I agree, conflict is the problem with any wish to live in a book, there’s plenty of it already!
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I think I would like to live in Francie Nolan’s world in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Even though she lived in poverty, I loved the strength that her world required. I got lost in Smith’s descriptions of simple activities like sitting on the fire escape, going to the library, and drinking coffee – how magical those moments were to Francie, something to be treasured rather than taken for granted. There was a richness and toughness of character in Francie’s world, and she brought Brooklyn to life for me. Without Francie, I don’t know that I would have wanted to live there! The character really made the place in that novel.
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There is no author I’d trust; they like to create too many problems.
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That is great about not wanting to invite an author’s conflict into your life!
I would want to give Henry VIII’s world – so long as I could leave at any time. I don’t think I’d want to be trapped there. I would just like to meet all of those people in person.
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I kept seeing the BTT segments at your blog that I finally decided to join and write up my own. Thank you for that!
I agree with you about the authors creating conflicts, I don’t think I’d mind it though if I had a super power. hehe.
~ Popin
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I am visiting Far World right now and I can see why you would want to live there.
I would love to talk with the trees.
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