Melanie Hamilton Wilkes is also a reader and, while it’s never expilcitely stated that Rhett Butler reads a lot, he quotes a lot of classics and seems to know an astonishly lot about everything.
Syme, if you were talking TO Miguel de Cervantes in that sentence, then it’s your English grammar that sucks. Seriously, dude, you think you know more Spanish than I do, when I’m Spanish and you claim to admire the Quijote and to have read it in Spanish because you did not want to subject yourself to the vagaries of translators, but you missed half the story?
Holmes was a reader, but not for pleasure. Ran against his empty attic theory of the mind.
This was contradicted later in the Canon–Holmes quotes Shakespeare.
Francie Nolan from “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” was reading her way through the library. A book a day, in alphabetical order by author.
Klaus Baudelaire in “A Series of Unfortunate Events”
I simply read it in Spanish because this is my language, in other words is the language we speak in my native country, so why would I read it in translation ?
and I admire Don Quijote, not’ the Quijote’, first time I read someone calling him ‘the Quijote’ and I didn’t miss half the story either
Oops! before I forget and since I am addressing one of those who think they know it all pedants , in my country of birth we speak Castellano to be precise, not Catalán or the ancient language spoken in the land of ETA :rolleyes:
Adios compadre
That’s what I was going to say. Even if he later quoted Shakespeare and the Bible, for instance, I don’t recall any scene in which Watson found him reading a non-work-related book.
How could I have forgotten. In both “Have spacesuit - will travel” and “Job : a comedy of justice” Heinlein expresses his high thoughts about libraries and librarians through the words of the main characters.
Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables.
There are better ways to come to know Shakespeare than by reading it.
I had to look the name up. I had no trouble remembering the episode title.
To the OP, also, Matilda.
Daria is always reading.
Twilight Sparkle literally lives in a library.
And Severus Snape! Also Sarah Crewe from A Little Princess.
And Annie Brown in Joy in the Morning is an avid reader and writer. Both charaters are obviously based on author Betty Smith.
All-of-A-Kind Family hasn’t been mentioned. The weekly trip to the library was a major event for Ella, Henrietta, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertrude.
And the better version of Harry Potter.
Yeah, I said it. Honestly the first character I’ve so thoroughly identified with in any fiction.
And in Season Two she helped Rainbow Dash, of all ponies, get hooked on reading.
Mark Herron in Then There Were Five, by Elizabeth Enright
Robin in The Velvet Room.