Who's your literary crush?
Aha! I am caught creating a Valentine's-related post! I couldn't resist as it was too tempting to answer this somewhere. Lucy of the Fully Booked twitter account RT'ed this article from the Huffington Post where some of today's authors share the fictional men and women who made their hearts go thump-thump. I am by no means an author. (Although, a girl can dream, right?) But I read. I spent my childhood "nose in a book" much like Belle of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. And because I'm very much a romantic, my high school years introduced me to and had a preference for the romantic novel. Gratuitous picture of Matthew Macfadyen as Darcy. Because, you know, this is a post about literary crushes. Besides, that article by the Huffington Post had one. Naturally, romance is probably the perfect genre to look for someone fictional to crush on. Famously, there's Mr. Darcy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Admittedly, though, I only felt totally en...