Another birthday present

    We're celebrating Cornflower's fourth birthday today, and I'm giving away a couple of books, one on that site and the other one here. I hope everyone will enter both draws as your answers to my questions should be fun to read! 

    To have a go here, please tell us in the comments which fictional character you would most like to meet.

    I'll leave this open for a few days and then set the random number generator to work to choose a winner. The prize will be another favourite book of mine, maybe a novel, but you never know... 

Comments

[Linda C.]

Congratulations! I enjoy both Cornflower sites very much.

The fictional character I'd like to meet is the unnamed narrator of my favorite book, "The Country of the Pointed Firs." It is a collection of related short stories set in coastal Maine (US), in the late 1800's. It is a beautiful evocation of the place, the time, and characters who lived there.

[Jill]

Happy 4th Birthday dear Cornflower, happy birthday to you.
I have always fancied meeting the Wife of Bath as I should imagine she would be up for a rollicking good time and a laugh.
Thank you for the pleasure Cornflower is in both places; thank you for all that you share and for the lovely Cornflower Book Group.

[Femke]

Happy Birthday! I love both your sites and your writing. Thank you for sharing all of this with us.

I'd love to meet the Big Friendly Giant, from Roald Dahl's children's book. Probably because of his ears. Or the Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.

[margaret46]

There are two characters I would dearly love to meet and as they are from the same book I'm hoping I'll get away with it.They are Atticus and Scout Finch.I think they would be so interesting and I would love to know more about Atticus and his thoughts on the future of America.

[Sandy]

Happy Birthday Cornflower! I believe I would give a different answer every time I was asked...

Today I want to meet Scotty from Star Trek (ok I know it's not a book but he is a fictional character).

He seems to know the answers to a lot of scientific questions that I would just love to discuss and he is also the kind of man who can say "Aye, the haggis is in the fire, for sure", so there is a chance I could understand his explanations!

[Lizzie]

Jackson Brodie from Kate Atkinson's books please!
Congratulations on 4 years of blogging. Yours was one of the first blogs I read, and one of the few I have continued to read. Well done, Cornflower!! does this call for a special cake??
Lizzie

[Kristina]

Congratulations! 4 years is a really long time, when you think about it... Hope your blogs will keeping going and we will be ciongratulating you with the 5th, 6th... 10th Birthday :)

As for the question - I'd love to meet Lucy Gault from the novel 'The Story of Lucy Gault' by William Trevor.

[Dark Puss]

Jennie from the eponymous book by Paul Gallico. Such a wise "person", I'm sure I'd learn a great deal that would be good for me.

A thousand purrs for your anniversary!

[Mystica]

A very happy birthday to you! I would love to meet Adam Dalgleish from the P D James series!

[Cornflower]

Sandy, you've made me laugh!

[Claire]

I'd love to meet Melanie from Marghanita Laski's "The Victorian Chaise-Longue".
A Very Happy Birthday!

[Claire (Paperback Reader)]

Congratulations on such a milestone!

Um, I'd have to say Mr Darcy!

[India]

I'd like to meet Aragorn....nothing cerebral about it ;0)

[ctussaud]

For me it would be lunch (Valvona and Crolla?) with Jean Brodie.It wouldn't be all listening, either, mind; I've got quite a lot to tell her too.

[Alison M]

Happy birthday :) Jane Eyre & Mr. Rochester, I'd love to ask how the marriage worked out.

[adele geras]

A very happy bloggish birthday to you, Cornflower and long may you bloom!
As for who I'd like to meet, how cliched is this? Mr Rochester of course.

[Karen]

Congratulations on Cornflower's 4th birthday. It's so difficult to choose (Lord Peter Wimsey? Glencora Palliser? Mr. Knightley?), but I think I would most like to meet and befriend Anne Elliot.

[Rosie H]

I'd like to meet Harriet Vane, though I fear she wouldn't have much time for me. Or Elinor Dashwood. Or else Lewis Mallory and Piers Medley from my beloved Mantlemass books (Barbara Willard).

[catharina]

Would love to meet Dream Angus.

[m]

Tea with Mrs Miniver would be nice, and you'd be sure of a good spread!

[Ros]

Peter Wimsey - my first and lasting literary crush.

[Lisa Milne]

I would love to meet Hagar Shipley from Margaret Laurence's A Stone Angel. I love strong female characters who aren't afraid to speak their mind.

[MzTallulah]

I'd love to meet Flora Poste and Elfine Starkadder from Cold Comfort Farm, and would be curious to sit in on one of Amos' sermons.

[Pauline Barclay]

Happy 4th Birthday and so well done, fantastic!

Not sure about how I would react if I really did meet him, because he his nasty, evil and deserves whatever befalls him, of course it is Henry Bryant-Smythe from Satchfield Hall!

[pamela]

I'd love to meet Sherlock Holmes, however if he was busy, Elizabeth Bennet would do nicely.

[Dancing Beastie]

This is even harder than your dinner party one. I'll be thinking about it for some time. As Mr. Darcy and Aragorn are both taken (!) and Anne Elliott has found a friend, I think today I'll say the second Mrs. de Winter. She and I could compare notes quite profitably, I think.

[Darlene]

This minute it would be The Provincial Lady herself, although, I'm sometimes at a loss as to just how much of her is fact or fiction!

[Nancy]

Can I enter twice? I'm checking in on both your blogs before getting back to that packing I'm suppppppposed to be doing. I don't know how I could leave out a Mitford or two! Add a Mitford - Nancy or Jessica or Deborah - or all.

[Juliet]

Many happy returns!
I'd like to meet hawk-nosed Aquila from Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers. Another early literary crush!

[Simon T]

Happy birthday Karen! How lovely to have been with you for 3.5 of those years.

The fictional character I'd most like to meet... this is one where I can't answer Miss Hargreaves, because I think she'd be terrifying to know. Instead, I'm going to go for Toby from The L-Shaped Room. Or Eeyore...

[Mr Cornflower]

I'm not entering for the draw, but can I have a go as well? Thank you!

First of all, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Bertie Wooster of course but also the irrepressible rogues Ukridge, the Earl of Ickenham ("Uncle Fred") and Galahad Threepwood, and as the father of a fizzy redhead I couldn't leave out Roberta Wickham, oh and before we get completely swamped by Wodehouse I'll squeeze in Aunt Dahlia. Then there's Jack Aubrey, Pierre Bezuhov, Levin, Anna Karenin, Moreau, Doctor Grantly, Sam Weller, Becky Sharp, Tristram Shandy, Viola, Elizabeth Bennett, George Smiley, Inspector Rebus, Harry Bosch, Commissioner Brunetti....
Anatole's wonderful food would be served by a platoon of footmen under the command of Jeeves and Beach, and guests would be encouraged to change places regularly so that everyone could talk to everyone and I could talk to them all.

[Lindsay]

Sorry, Pamela, but Elizabeth Bennett is with me!

[Kim]

I am reading "Cranford" now so I will choose narrator Mary Smith.
Thank you for both blogs. Please keep up the good work.

[Sarah]

for me it would have to be Jane Marple.

[Ruth M]

Happy birthday Cornflower! Many, many more to come I hope. Just one? How to choose, how to choose... Corporal Carrot in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

[Simon (Savidge Reads)]

Happy Birthday to you Cornflower! I think that I would like to meet Mrs Danvers... maybe lol.

[GeraniumCat]

Very many happy returns, Cornflower! My choice would be Flavia de Luce, Albert Campion and Cassandra Mortmain. I wondered about adding Francis Crawford of Lymond, but he might be a bit too much of a handful.

[Henrietta]

Congratulations on your 4th Birthday Cornflower. I hope that Mr Cornflower has ordered the caterers when all his characters come to call.

It is very hard to choose one though, and I suspect that my choice too would be changeable. Today I would like to meet Simon Serrailler from the Susan Hill books, as Jackson Brodie is already taken. He could show me his sketches of Venice.......

[Carol]

Without a doubt Professor Dumbledore .... in his office at Hogwarts Castle.

[Margaret Powling]

And Happy Birthday - a bit late, I know - from me! Yours was the first blog I happened on, by pure chance ... oh, it's been my fiscal downfall as far as books are concerned!

But to my choice of person ... so many have been mentioned whom I'd love to meet, but I think I'd have a fun time with Miss Maisie Dobbs. We could dash off somewhere in her little car, through the hop fields (or what is left of them) of Kent, to somewhere for a fish and chip lunch and a good girlie natter!

[desperate reader]

happy Birthday - I do love your challanges, this one has been tricky, but I think it has to be Fevvers from Nights at the Circus!

[bookeywookey]

Happy birthday! (and if you're not including shipping a prize across the pond, don't worry, I'm happy to play regardless). I'd like to meet Joseph Knecht, Herman Hesse's Magister Ludi!

[Carol Norton]

Happy Blog Birthday Cornflower.

For me it's a toss-up between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester. Jane because she's been a heroine of mine ever since I first read the book at 13, and Rochester, because, well, you know...

[A Bookish Space]

I would have to choose Hercule Poirot!

[Pia]

Happy Bithday Cornflower!! I'd like to meet Ford Prefect at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe.

[Frances]

Happy, happy birthday! I would love to meet both Sherlock Holmes and Flavia de Luce.

[Lucy Byatt]

Thanks for such a great site - I'm an occasional visitor but then find it so interesting that I have to spend time catching up on past posts! Happy 4th birthday!

[Wigs on the Green]

Happy birthday! I'd love to spend an afternoon with the sensible Flora Poste and have a guided tour of Cold Comfort Farm with an opportunity to stroke Graceless, Feckless, Aimless & Pointless the cows. (We have a 3-legged cat so I feel I could empathise with their 3-legged cow.)

[Oxslip]

And for a literary dinner I'd enjoy
Diana Athill who's a great raconteur
Margaret Atwood to keep me on my toes
Jeanette Winterson to keep us all a bit political
Eleanor Graham to reminisce with

[Gill]

Happy Blog Birthday, Cornflower & many more to give us all so much pleasure. Now, who to meet? Would I dare to meet Aslan from The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe? Perhaps not. Then it must be Lord Peter Wimsey.