I’m the BlogHer $100 question today! From the good folks at BlogHer:
–The program is called “The $100 Question”
–This is a week-daily program (so, each Monday through Friday) where a different blogger will be asking a question, and one lucky commenter will be entered to win $100 from BlogHer.
–Comments must be made at BlogHer.com to be eligible for the prize.
–Commenters must be registered BlogHer.com users (all you need is an email address to register.)
–Your question’s contest will be open Tuesday, June 8 through Thursday, June 10.
And here’s my question (don’t answer here, answer over there so you can enter to win cold hard cash):
When I was about eleven I had a terrible crush on Almanzo Wilder. I would inhale the last three books of the Little House series on lazy Sundays, rushing through most of the story just to get to the courting. I loved it when Laura tried to let him down easy, telling him outright she was only using him for a ride home from the dreaded Brewsters where she was boarding while she taught school. I loved it more when he showed up the next week anyway. When I tired of Laura’s pioneer romance there was always Gilbert and Anne in the Anne of Green Gables books; Jo’s incomprehensible (to me) rejection of Laurie in Little Women and Calvin O’Keefe’s regard for Meg Murry in the Wrinkle in Time series, which surely gave hope to geeky girls everywhere. Who was your first literary love? Which scenes in which books sent your heart fluttering?
This based on a question I’ve asked on my blog and the answers were so interesting that I wanted to ask it again! So head on over, join up on BlogHer and please share.
THEN go over and read Julia’s amazing post today over at our special needs support site <– search engine bait and have a tissue handy.
I was in love with Soda pop from the Outsiders (the book, not the movie, although I loved that as well!). He was the older bad boy…ahhhh.
Gah! I’d love to comment but I’m stuck in log in looping hell at Blog Her. Fudge.
I was a wiggly kid, so didn’t get read to much, so my first “literary” crush was Ponch from CHIPS. I suppose once I got into reading it was Darcy. Pretty predictable! My intro to Anne of Green Gables was the awesome CBC miniseries (I own it now, and still sob!) and I had a major crush on Gil… Oh Anne! I look forward to all of these books with my daughter. We’ve started reading Little House, which of course I only knew with Melissa Gilbert! We watch Pippi Longstocking, but at least it’s in German! (I feel like such a pleb…)
Can’t be bothered registering at BlogHer, so will comment here despite lack of cash incentives!
My first literary crush was George, from Room with a View. SWOON! So forceful. So manly. So sensitive. So perfect. Sadly, so fictional.
also can’t be bothered to register at blogher, but…
nat eaton from “the witch of blackbird pond.” i was sure i would marry a man named nathaniel. i didn’t. but i did sleep with one for a while in college.