{"id":395,"date":"2008-01-02T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/02\/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T23:19:48","slug":"guess-whos-coming-to-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you could invite any character(s) over for dinner, who would you choose?&#8221; that&#8217;s what we asked staff for the third part of our survey series. Here&#8217;s the guest list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Santiago &#8211; the Alchemist;<\/li>\n<li>Marilla Cuthbert &#8211; Anne of Green Gables;<\/li>\n<li>Dexter Morgan &#8211; Darkly Dreaming Dexter;<\/li>\n<li>Vivianne Rocher &#8211; Chocolat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"left\">*******************************************************<\/div>\n<p>Huck Finn &amp; Tom Sawyer<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<br \/>\nNathaniel Bonner from Sara Donati&#8217;s &#8221; Wilderness&#8221; series &#8211; Why would I share him with anyone else?<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<br \/>\nScarlett O&#8217;Hara, Blanche DuBois, Daisy Buchanan<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock &amp; Mycroft Holmes<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dumbledore<\/li>\n<li>Gandalf,<\/li>\n<li>Jo (from Little Women)<\/li>\n<li>Sherlock Holmes &amp; Dr. Watson<\/li>\n<li>Hamlet<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Bennett &amp; Mr. Darcy (from Pride &amp; Prejudice)<\/li>\n<li>literary detective Thursday Next (from the Jasper Fforde books)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*******************************************************<br \/>\nAlice in Wonderland<br \/>\n*******************************************************<br \/>\nSeven Dwarfs<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<br \/>\nHugh Glass (from the Revenant) and Eric Hoffer (Working and Thinking on the Waterfront)<\/p>\n<p>*******************************************************<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Count of Monte Cristo<\/li>\n<li>Thursday Next<\/li>\n<li>Alice (from <i>Twilight<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li>The Baron from Italo Calvino&#8217;s <i>Baron in the Trees<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Marcovaldo<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Lupin and Ollivander from <i>Harry Potter<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*******************************************************<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sherlock Holmes<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Black &amp; Edward Cullen (though I would have to seat them at opposite ends of the table)<\/li>\n<li>Roarke &#8211; from J.D. 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