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[bubosquared]

Managed to lock myself out for and a half. In sandals, and no armwarmers or collar or even my pendants. So i want for a ride, considered a movie, decided a against sa I couldn't let my bike outof my sight. Went and bought me some 2nd-hand books. So before I go and take me my 4-hour nap, I have a question for you all:

What was the last book you read with a prominent female character you could actully stand and even identify with? Elaborate, please.

Good pika night. ^_^

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[pelicanzed.livejournal.com]

"Vicky Angel" by Jacqueline Wilson, a YA novel. (The last book I read; I finished it a couple of hours ago.) It basically concerned two teenage girls, best friends, one of whom died after being run over. It was the story of how the other - the narrator - got by afterwards. She was given the opportunity to make new friends, but the other girl hung around with her, as a ghost, always hovering in the way of her efforts. The ghost had always been the dominant one of the two, who always had her say, and this continued after her death. She got more and more bossy, making the narrator more and more miserable. Eventually, though, the narrator learned to not pay any attention to the ghost, and came to terms with what had happened. I liked the narrator, because she was completely trapped, unable to tell anyone about the ghost, and took the path of least resistance at first, but eventually started standing up for herself and doing what she wanted.

I have an answer to that book question...

[omgimnaked.livejournal.com]

Anything by Francesca Lia Block. Particularly Weetzie Bat, I Was A Teenage Fairy, and Girl Goddess #9.

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

Most recent one would have to be Voice of the Blood, by Jemiah Jefferson. Jemiah has admitted that Ariana, the protagonist, is a total Mary Sue (she also writes fanfic), but she's still a damn cool character. Second most recent would probably be the Sonja Blue books (Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint it Black - these can also be found collected in one novel called Midnight Blue) by Nancy A. Collins. Sonja is a hybrid vampire who carries a silver switchblade and escapes from a madhouse, kills demons, etc. She's deeply kickass. I was thinking of going as her for Halloween, but I figured no one would recognise who I was supposed to be, and also I couldn't bring a knife to work.

Those are the main ones I can think of off the top of my head. Most of the books I read are either non-fiction, have no female protagonists, or have really annoying ones. Mimph.

(Well, wait. Do comic books count? Tulip from Preacher is pretty cool...)

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

By "she also writes fanfic" I meant Jemiah, not Ariana. Um.

Another book! The title character from Donna Jo Napoli's Zel, a young-adult novel adaptation of the Rapunzel fairy tale. Zel starts going mad while trapped in the tower, which I found really fascinating. Good book.

[rsadelle]

I don't know about identifying with her, but I really like the main character of Dancer of the Sixth by Michelle Shirey Crean. She's a strong, kick-ass woman who falls in love without losing her own identity. Plus, she's a pilot.

The main character of Robin McKinley's Deerskin is fascinating, and she finds her way back to well after her father rapes her.

Another favorite female character is the heroine of Connie Willis' Bellwether. She's a scientist studying chaos theory, and she also manages to fall in love without losing herself.

I don't know that I've really identified with a fictional character since before I graduated high school. The only writing I've really identified with since then is Nomy Lamm's "It's a big fat revolution."

[zero3kid.livejournal.com]

Good female characters are hard to find, yo.

The last literary female I've been able to stand/identify with was Scout, from To Kill a Mockingbird. I read that when I was 16. She seemed so much like me when I was a kid...she was curious, she was stuck between wanting to be a woman and wanting to be a kid, and she had all kinds of big ideas.

[jotun.livejournal.com]

Well, I read this book about Asia Carrera once. Well, it wasn't really a book, per se, more like a magazine. I didn't really identify with her much though. I mean, she likes cold weather and guys with strong, broad shoulders, and you know, I'm really just not into those sort of things. She was definitely pretty prominent though . . . parts of her anyway. And of me standing her wasn't really the question, because she's pretty outgoing. I mean, she'll do anything. Er. Yeah.

Actually, I kind of identify with

[coneyislandbaby]

Both Hermione and Ginny in Harry Potter. Ginny for the crush on the closest thing in her life to a celebrity (I was fourteen, he was in amateur theatrics...his name wasn't Harry, though), and Hermione - I was very bookish at school.

Sibyl Vimes in the Discworld books.

Susan in the same books.

Anita Blake (well, except for the vamp-hunting stuff).

Lucky Santangelo in Jackie Collins' books.

The other books I read are romance novels, which I refuse to contemplate identifying with characters in, or non-fiction, or the women annoy me (like Marge in The Talented Mr Ripley - *shudder* I can't bear the novel version)