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Which character from fiction would you like as a friend?

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CromartyForthTyneDogger · 11/01/2024 16:40

If you could have any character from a book as your best friend who would you choose?

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IsadoraQuagmire · 25/01/2024 15:43

TabbyM · 25/01/2024 15:38

@IsadoraQuagmire @PuddleglumtheMarshWiggle I just discovered there are more Susan books than I knew of in my youth (charity shops bargains) including Susan's Trying Term which I found online - I had only heard of the first 6:

  • Susan Pulls the Strings (1952)[8]
  • Susan's Helping Hand (1955)[9]
  • Susan Rushes In (1956)
  • Susan Interferes (1957)
  • Susan at School (1958)
  • Susan Muddles Through (1960)[10]
  • Susan's Trying Term (1961)[11]
  • No Trouble for Susan (1962)
  • Susan's Kind Heart (1965)
  • Where is Susan? (1968)
  • A Job for Susan (1969)
I am also a Midge fan!

I've got them all, some are reprints from The Bettany Press. I've also got this, as well as some of her other books.

Which character from fiction would you like as a friend?
TabbyM · 02/02/2024 12:34

Thanks I'll be getting some from The Bettany Press!

IcakethereforeIam · 02/02/2024 14:32

Mavin Manyshaped, don't take no crap from anyone.

MotherOfCatBoy · 03/02/2024 08:14

Jo March
Sam Gamgee (and Merry and Pippin down the pub)
Dolly from Anna Karenina and Marya from War & Peace
Ursula from Life after Life

Tootingbec · 03/02/2024 08:19

Mog 😻

Loopytiles · 03/02/2024 10:04

Mog by Judith Kerr or from Meg & Mog?

I’d love to spend a day with Winnie the Witch.

Where’s Wally would be annoying, though: I don’t like travel or crowds and he’s clearly a narcissist!

Tootingbec · 03/02/2024 10:34

@Loopytiles

Judith Kerr’s Mog!!

AltitudeCheck · 03/02/2024 10:48

Elisabeth Zott (accompanied by six-thirty) and Thursday Next (with Pickwick)...

TitusMoan · 04/02/2024 12:03

AltitudeCheck · 03/02/2024 10:48

Elisabeth Zott (accompanied by six-thirty) and Thursday Next (with Pickwick)...

Elizabeth Zott wouldn’t know how to do friendships, especially not with a woman.

Beetlewings · 04/02/2024 13:09

Claire Fraser (Beauchamp) from the Outlander books. She's so capable

AltitudeCheck · 04/02/2024 13:29

@TitusMoan she sounds just as socially awkward as me so we'd have plenty of common ground to bond over! 😆

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