What am I reading? Mini Challenge 2
I am on page 83.
The Importance of Complex Characters By Jacqueline Friedland
Photo by Rebecca Weiss A couple of years ago, there was a debate in the literary world about “likeable” characters. The question, essentially, boiled down to this: must a character be unpleasant, whether angry or aggressive, selfish, or all gloom-and-doom in order to be taken seriously as a literary character? When the debate arose, the focus was primarily on female characters— if a female protagonist has too many redeemable qualities as a person, does this detract from her substance as a character in a story? This query nagged at me and took on a new shape during my writing Trouble the Water , as I watched my two main protagonists undergo journeys of personal growth that left them both decidedly more pleasant than the people they were when the story began. The question I needed to answer was whether depth and meaning are negated by personal recoveries? My own take, as a reader, is that if I am going to spend hours reading a novel, hanging out with cha...
I really wanted to figure this one out, but just can't seem to get it. :( Is that a Cougar? All I could think of was Cat Woman - but in the bottom pic there is more than one or maybe friends. So Cougar Women? Catty Friends? LOL
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ReplyDeleteTiger Women? lol
ReplyDeleteI'm stumped too. All i can think is cougar women or something too. Thanks for playing!
ReplyDeletePia got it! The answer is The Cougar Club by Susan McBride.
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