If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
This is quite a tough one and I’ll have to think about that. I rarely read fiction so any choice I make will probably hark back to my school years.
I’ve got it. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. I’d have loved the life he had as he was a bit of an adventurer and an independent soul.
I know the area where he spent his childhood fairly well so could relate to some of the places he wrote of. The period of time was a much more innocent era and the characters are so well described, what they did and what he thought, all of this pulled you into the story. I read this at school and again only a year or so ago, but it meant more to me as an adult than it did as a child. I would have loved his life purely for the innocence and lack of responsibility in those hazy days of summers long past.
His follow up books of when he pretty much hiked all around Spain at the time of the civil war and then when he returned at the height of the civil war gave a fascinating insight to those particular times.
It’s amazing the feelings a well written book can stir inside you.
Have a peaceful day all.
Foxes Den 