Book Character Meme

Tagged by Carrie Jones to do this cool meme created by Robin:

Which five book characters are you most like (including, if you want, one of your own)?

1. Anita Blake because...well, I probably shouldn't talk about my sex life here. KIDDING!

2. Dante Valentine (from the great series by Lilith Saintcrow ) - No, I'm not a katana-wielding hedaira. But I do have a hard, unforgiving edge to my personality, particularly if you fuck with my friends. I try to keep that side of myself in check here on Blogger and, come to think of it, in general but it's definitely there.

3. Jaenelle (from the great Black Jewels series by Anne Bishop) - Again, not because I'm sooper speshul. I do, however, tend to collect people and transcend social boundaries. I loved that about Jaenelle - she just kept amassing this collection of lives she somehow touched, all of whom she fiercely protected (see #2) and all of whom came from very different social (and sometimes physical) realms. I'm a little bit like that, too. (Or, at least, I like to think I am.)

4. Travis Oakes, the main love interest from my current WIP. Yeah, I know he's a boy. But he and I have a very similar sense of humor and manner of speaking. I'd like to think I'd have played it a little smarter than he did when it came to courting my MC, though. *rolls eyes* Men.

5. Isabel Archer from The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. This is one of my all time favorite books. I first read it in college and whoa, it was a life-changing experience. An epiphany. To this day, one of the most precious reading experiences of my life. The me who I was in college connected so intensely with Isabel, it was as if I was waiting to read my own future with every turn of the page. Heady stuff. It's been a long time since I read the book or even thought about it - mostly I just hold the experience dear to my heart and remember the intense emotions it stirred within me. So I can't tell you how the me of today is like Isabel. But, I am like her somehow, that's for certain. We connected too fiercely for me not to be, despite the ways that I've changed and grown over the years.

To prove my love for The Portrait of a Lady (and to make up for my silly #1 answer above), here's a couple of pictures of my favorite copy of TPoaL. This is the one that I first read. You can see below how worn the cover and binding are and how many notes I have in the margins. The page I photographed was even folded down, to signify the ZOMG IMPORTANT passages on it, though most of the book has as many notes and underlined paragraphs. :)