Me in Book Characters Tag

I may have a slight obsession with tags... xP

Rules:

1. Thank the creators of the tag. || I don’t know who came up with this, but thank you!

2. Thank whoever tagged you. || Apparently I'm starting a collection of these tags-I-stole-from-a-blogger-and-then-got-tagged-for-right-after. So I stole this tag from Rebekah, wrote it up, and then got tagged for it by Kate. So, thanks, Kate. xD

3. List 5 book characters who you are most like and explain why. || Check! 

4. Tag your friends! || Okay!

And now, let’s dive in. XP This was something of a hard tag!! 

1. Katharine Carr Worthington from the What Katy Did Series.

I related to Katy from the very beginning—scatterbrained, careless, full of plans, writing stories, oldest of a large family, wanting to do right but forgetting to, excessively bookish... All me. As we grew older we became even more similar. We even have the same name—Katja is a nickname for the given name Katherine in Russian. She and I love England so much. We love books, Austen, Dickens, roses, beauty, history, people, humour... She even falls in love with a navy lieutenant named Edward. 😜 (In case you didn’t know, I have a huge weakness for navy lieutenants & Edward is my favourite male name.) And Katy’s birthday is towards the end of January, just like mine! Katy became almost my mentor or role-model. I was encouraged to see how greatly she changed & what a sweet, Godly young woman she became. I aspire to be the gentle, modest, loving, polite girl she was, helping everyone & loving everyone.

2. Euphemia Ingleford from Enemy Brothers. 

Euphemia is the second oldest in a family of twelve and the oldest girl. Her parents died when she was a young woman and she practically raised her younger siblings with her older brother, Thomas. She runs/cares for the entire household, which in 1943 includes a maid, eleven siblings ranging from about 30 to 10, three young cousins, three old aunts, six evacuated schoolboys, their schoolmaster, an evacuated mother, and her three babies. Add to this a young and very determined younger sibling who was kidnapped as a child and just found... and who wants to return to Germany at all costs. There’s also the gardens to care for & the socks to knit, & the letters to write to the soldier brother in the Middle East. And through all the craziness Phemie remains calm, collected, loving, & selfless. I relate a lot to how she had to care for the family, and how loving & protective she is of Tony. I also aspire to have her selflessness & calm in the midst of stress.

3. Anne Shirley Blythe from the Anne of Green Gables Series. 

Ah, Anne. I relate to Anne’s love of beauty, romance, & happiness so much. We both can become absent-minded. We’re both sensitive. We love people. We both flash up suddenly. We both have vivid imaginations. We love children. We love stories & writing. We have high ideals & aspirations, even if they’re different. 

4. Laura Ingalls Wilder from the Little House books. 

I relate to Laura a little as a girl and a young woman. I’m more timid & conservative than Laura, but we both love words, people, & adventure (though I am much more moderate in that liking than she is!). I relate to her protectiveness over Carrie & Mary and how she feels like the one who has to be the one who does it all. We both tend to feel guilty & as if we’re not enough. We both want friends; to look nice; to do our best; and to be there for those we love. I relate to Laura a lot on my soberer side & in my flaws. 

5. Darrell Rivers from the Malory Towers Series. 

I relate to Darrell in many ways. We’re both very attached to our family. We’re very protective of our younger sister Felicity 😉 (yes, her sister has the same name as mine & we’re about that far apart, too!). We both need our best friend very much. We both love to be loved & appreciated. We both want to do our best in life and get worried when other people go astray. We love to laugh. We’re both writers. 😉 We both have very quick tempers that calm down suddenly, too. 😉 

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And I tag... well, to be honest, I'm writing this in February, so those I tag now might have done it already by the time this is posted! So I tag whoever wants to do it and hasn't done it yet. ;)