I read on 5 Minutes for Books about a weekly book meme called Booking Through Thursday – sounds pretty perfect for me, the absolutely book obsessed and the memes look pretty short which is always nice (not to mention all the cool kids are doing it). Maybe I can type this up before MM notices I’m not paying all my attention to his truly? I mean… anyway, here’s this week’s questions?
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
The first one that comes to mind is the dawn of the 20th century in Libba Bray’s Great and Terrible Beauty trilogy – I know it’s not really a world, but given that magic is possible, I’m going with it being a world of it’s own, and in a time that truly fascinates me with the whole women’s suffrage movement and women still being women but also striving to be something more, when something more was truly needed.
Other books that come to mind are the world within His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman (jumping through different parallel universes, seeing the different possibilities for reality – as long as I don’t have to go through the specific tragedies that Lyra endures by the end… I think it could be neat; and the world within the Eyre Affair also fascinates me – more with the time jumping and the book jumping and just the whole fascinating world that Fforde creates where everything is kind of exaggerated and fantastical and a little bit conspiratorial, but just so neat. All the best and worst theories you might ever have about the world, true and real and bluntly there… I’d better move onto the next question though before this can no longer be called a short post… (too late?)
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
Well any dis-Utopian world or post-apocalyptic world would certainly suck – prime examples being the world in The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood or the whole sucky existence in I Am Legend which I haven’t read yet but I saw the movie and yeah… that’d suck.
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
Janet Evanovich and Stephenie Meyer both seem to have my number – I think I could trust them to do me justice, to not make me too perfect or too annoying – they seem to have an understanding of the type of character I’d be – a sort of mixture of Stephenie Plum and Bella Swan but married and with one small monkeyToddler – I think they could handle that.
Mommablogsalot 
4 responses to “Who would YOU trust to write YOUR life?”
I like your choices of Evanovich and Meyer – they are two authors who present characters that aren’t perfect – which I find refreshing 🙂
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I’d like to see the era of suffrage, and be a part of the change, and be able to sort of see both sides of it truly.
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Welcome aboard! My answer is posted for you to read.
It’s interesting to see that you’d rather live with the suffragettes than live now when we can vote.
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I think I would like Pullman’s world, too. Having my own personal daemon around all the time to keep me company and comfort me in times of distress is definitely appealing, and I would love to meet an armored bear. Of course, I’d prefer it prior to or after all the fighting, dying, etc.
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