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elliotsmelliot

My 100 Favourite Fictional Females - Part Three

Nov 26, 2009 10:41

Spunky, silly, and serious - these are my favourite fictional girls. They navigate their coming of age with a combination of bravado, wit and awkwardness. War and violence causes some of them to grow up too soon, or not at all. For others, puberty is their major source of angst. These are not all my favourite girls, some of the others will show up ( Read more... )

100 fave fictional females

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elliotsmelliot November 27 2009, 16:41:08 UTC

I haven't read it since high school, but I remember loving it.

jaydblu November 28 2009, 03:24:44 UTC

My favorites on this list are Olive and Jo. Olive was just adorable in Little Miss Sunshine (OMG I laughed during that movie) and Jo was always my favorite in Facts of Life. :)

elliotsmelliot November 28 2009, 17:06:47 UTC

When I was in grade four I wrote a letter to Nancy McKeon. I never sent it, but that is how much I was into Jo!

ozmissage November 29 2009, 23:38:05 UTC

I love Olive so much and Lisa!

I remember reading Are You There God, It's Me Margaret when I was young. I was completely shocked by how frank it was about periods and all of the lovely little surprises girls get when they hit puberty. Reading it was kind of like a rite of passage, I think my tastes in books became much more "grown-up" after that. :D

elliotsmelliot November 30 2009, 15:37:34 UTC

Me too! I think after that I moved on to more "adult" a.k.a. trashy books writen by VC Andrews and Danielle Steele.

Did you have the updated version of Margaret? I remember being totally confused and a little afraid of the descriptions of the 1970s santitary pads.

ozmissage November 30 2009, 22:05:49 UTC

Nope, I had the scary '70s version too. ;)

Judy Blume was pretty much responsible for all of my early sex education. I remember buying a copy of "Forever" when I was like twelve thinking it was like her other books. Man, was I ever surprised. I still can't hear the name Ralph without snickering.

elliotsmelliot December 2 2009, 03:17:33 UTC

I don't own the book but I would like to have. I would probably need to look in used to stores to find the original Margaret.

I just looked Forever up. How did I miss that one? My husband always talks about Then Again, Maybe I Won't as being a big awakening of teen issues for him.

thespiansparkle February 17 2010, 01:56:36 UTC

Some great book suggestions for me here--I haven't read The Book Thief and I haven't read The Scatterbrain Booky! And I actually have never seen Grave of the Fireflies--I've been warned that it is absolutely heartbreaking (but very good)...

And Jean Louise/Scout is one of my favorite literary characters--I love Atticus too (don't most people)? And Olive is just so fantastic. She's just so happy and energetic and adorable, and the scene where she finds out she's in the pageant and runs around screaming and telling her stuffed animals makes me endlessly happy <3

elliotsmelliot February 17 2010, 04:40:08 UTC

The Book Thief is the best book I read in 2009. It has really stuck with me. Booky is a good young adult series that I tend to give as gifts to my nieces.

To Kill A Mockingbird is full of great characters. I should read it again. It's been a while.

Olive rules!

ETA - Yes, Grave of the Fireflies is devastating. Bring the Kleenax if you watch it.