I’ve wanted to participate in Calendar Girls for a while now. It’s a monthly event run by Katie at Never Not Reading and Adrienne at Darque Dreamer Reads in which you post your favorite choice for the specific topic.
My problem is that I am so bad at picking just one anything when it comes to books! But I narrowed it down for a Favorite Book OTP. Though I’m totally giving runners-up 🙂
So my runners-up (I’m keeping it to a top 3!):
Heathcliff and Catherine from Wuthering Heights
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“Be with me always- take any form-drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you.”
Teenage Me: Romeo and Juliet where idiots but these two are goals!
Ned and Catelyn from Game of Thrones
“Love didn’t just happen to us. We built it slowly, stone by stone, over the years.”
And then it was all ripped away 🙁
And my choice for the month my number one Bookish OTP just feels like summer and sunshine and light…
Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables
I read this for the first time last year not expecting to love it as much as I did. Except Gilbert- when it started I found him just as annoying as child Anne. I laughed when she broke a chalkboard over his head for making fun of her (I know, I know.) But the book covers more ground and years than I thought and Gilbert grew up into quite a respectable young man.
Also you could tell from pretty early on he adored her.
Both Anne’s sacrifice at the end and his act of friendship toward her in order to make her life easier at a hard point in it melted my cynical heart. It’s very, very, very rare in a series that a relationship is the deciding factor in my wanting to read more but Anne and Gilbert absolutely do.
I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE JOINING US! <3 <3 <3
I am the only woman in my family who has never read Anne of Green Gables. I don't really know why, except to say I just didn't know about it? Anyway, it sounds really cute and sweet, and I'm glad you loved it so much. 🙂
Thanks!
I never read it as a kid and then forever told myself it was a kids book but honestly it’s adorable and I both relate to and want to adopt Anne 🙂
I’ll have to add it to my Classics-list, which has rapidly dwindled since I’ve read so many of them. 🙂
Glad to have you joining us! Would you like too be added to the Twitter chat? And I love your pick! I still need to read the book, but I’m loving the Netflix show, and I can totally see that OTP just from watching!
Love to join the twitter chat!
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Thanks! Will do after work and let you know 😉
Sounds great! <3
Great choices!
Thanks!
You mentioned OTP and I knew Ned and Catelyn will be there before scrolling down! <3
Still me: Romeo and Juliet were idiots.
ooh such a great list! I love Anne and Gilbert! And Heathcliff and Cathy!
I’ve heard so many great things about Anne and Gilbert as a couple, I think that’ll probably the only driving factor in me continuing the series. Glad to see Ned and Cat in this list, their relationship has always come across as steady and strong like parents should be. Heathcliff and Cathy remind me of that tweet: “unblock me so we can be toxic again,” but, hey, it works for them.