Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

“If you could invite any character(s) over for dinner, who would you choose?” that’s what we asked staff for the third part of our survey series. Here’s the guest list:

  • Santiago – the Alchemist;
  • Marilla Cuthbert – Anne of Green Gables;
  • Dexter Morgan – Darkly Dreaming Dexter;
  • Vivianne Rocher – Chocolat
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Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer

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Nathaniel Bonner from Sara Donati’s ” Wilderness” series – Why would I share him with anyone else?

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Scarlett O’Hara, Blanche DuBois, Daisy Buchanan

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Sherlock & Mycroft Holmes

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  • Dumbledore
  • Gandalf,
  • Jo (from Little Women)
  • Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
  • Hamlet
  • Elizabeth Bennett & Mr. Darcy (from Pride & Prejudice)
  • literary detective Thursday Next (from the Jasper Fforde books)

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Alice in Wonderland
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Seven Dwarfs

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Hugh Glass (from the Revenant) and Eric Hoffer (Working and Thinking on the Waterfront)

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  • Count of Monte Cristo
  • Thursday Next
  • Alice (from Twilight)
  • The Baron from Italo Calvino’s Baron in the Trees
  • Marcovaldo
  • Prof. Lupin and Ollivander from Harry Potter

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  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Jacob Black & Edward Cullen (though I would have to seat them at opposite ends of the table)
  • Roarke – from J.D. Robb’s In Death series
  • Jean-Claude from Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series
  • David – Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden series
  • Wrath & Rhage – J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series
  • Frost – L.K.H’s Merry Gentry series
  • Harry Dresden – The Dresden Files
  • Daemon & Lucivar – The Black Jewels trilogy

So, let’s see, that’s: four vampires, one werewolf, one wizard, one faerie, one djinn, one Irish billionaire, two demons, and a legendary detective. Maybe I should invite Watson just so Holmes doesn’t feel left out…

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