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!
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.
Have you started it yet? I finished it in one day and (future review spoiler) loved it!
I agree – authors are not trustworthy. With my luck, they’d write me out by the end of the first chapter!
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.
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!
There is no author I’d trust; they like to create too many problems.
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.
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.
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
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.