World Book Day

[ewein2412]

 The kids were supposed to go to school dressed as characters from their favorite books.  Sara's first choice was Jane Eyre, but then she fell back on the ol' Edward Elric option because he has better hair.  (She doesn't like putting her hair up.)  Mark, after MUCH persuasion, went as Horrid Henry, who I believe is a uniquely British phenomenon (he is not the same as Horrible Harry)--though the author, Francesca Simon, is American.

To show solidarity I started constructing a Mordred costume for myself, when it occurred to me that my own hair is not very Mordredy, so I went for the Harriet Vane option.  Who knew that Good Hair was such a deciding factor in choosing one's Favorite Literary Character?



Henry & Ed



a.k.a. Mark & Sara

Comments

[mhari.livejournal.com]

D'awwww!

What, no pictures of Harriet? ;)

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Tell Ed Elric she looks fantastic. (I once saw an Ed Elric carrying a picket sign reading 6' 3".) I can't comment on Horrid Henry, but I am sure he's excellent too.

But where's the Harriet Vane photo?

[ewein2412]

look at the icon!!!!!

[ewein2412]

HEE HEE HEE you are all falling prey to my EVIL PLOT! check out the icon.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I know who none of these people are. (Except Jane Eyre, I know who she is.)

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

Hair is KEY in choosing the literary character to represent. If you dont' have access to a good supply of wigs, at least.

I loved those days in school! Except I can only remember one, from fourth grade, when I was obsessed with those utterly teen series like Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley and Girl Talk. I went as Rowena from the Girl Talk series. What a horrible choice, when I was also reading Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. THAT would have been a costume.

Nowadays I sort of wish someone would throw a literary costume party (well maybe I just should do it) - I'd be Ginevra Godwin from Susan Howatch's The Wheel of Fortune in a heartbeat! The scene when she arrives back to Oxmoon, a widow of one month, in a turquoise travelling suit.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I used to stick a coat hanger through my braids and go as Pippi.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

Oh-ho. Sneaky!

[ewein2412]

sara took the picture!

[estara.livejournal.com]

First reaction: kawaiiiii
Second reaction: these children will eventually have multitudes wanting to marry them and have their own kids because rarely have I seen such a beautiful red hair colour.
Third reaction: the cosplay outfits are perfect.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Cute!

So what about the Harriet Vane picture? (and who do you see as your Wimsey?)

[ewein2412]

sara has had the coat for a while. She wore it three halloweens ago--the back looks like this

their hair doesn't always shine like that! mostly it just seems mousy. Mark is definitely an enviable strawberry blonde, though.

[ewein2412]

So what about the Harriet Vane picture?

OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ARE ALL FALLING FOR THIS. Check out the icon.

(and who do you see as your Wimsey?)

reader, I married him.

[ewein2412]

I was ALWAYS Sara Crewe. But if I had had to dress up as a character from my favorite book when I was 6, I would have been Buck Rogers.

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Oh, so you ARE Harriet Vane! I never noticed the resemblance until now.

[ewein2412]

do you not know who Harriet Vane is? because I could introduce you.

[ewein2412]

hee.

a professional photographer and a bit of stage make-up does actually make a big difference in the look, though.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I saw the lower entry, and I assume she is the woman who winds up marrying Wimsey. I've only read one Sayers book so far (it was Murder Must Advertise), and I'm not sure she was in it yet. They were definately not married.

[ewein2412]

she turns up first in Have His Carcase. But the best one is Gaudy Night.

[ewein2412]

she is my hero.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Are they books that ought to be read in order, or can I pick up from either of those two?

[ewein2412]

you should read the Harriet Vane books in order--I lied about the first one. It's Strong Poison first, then Have His Carcass, then Gaudy Night. You don't need to have read any of the other Wimsey books to start with Strong Poison, though.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you win the prize for cutest kids ever. <333 Give them my love.

Also, eeeeee. You are Harriet. But I do wish I could see you as Mordred, too.

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

Ooo, nice. You look very Harriet-like.

[ewein2412]

why thank you!

(when I first got this haircut, in 1988, I walked into my apartment and my roommate exclaimed, "It's Harriet Vane!")

[ewein2412]

I know, me too! (incidentally, your last literary post to me is still sitting in my mailbox waiting for me to answer it.... It takes me a long time to get around to writing anything that requires thinking. But I am not ignoring it.)

[ewein2412]

This whole episode has made me remember a time when I dressed up in my traditional Mordred costume, looked in the mirror and saw the Harriet Vane haircut, and thought, MY GOD, what do you get when you cross Mordred with Harriet Vane? The answer is E WEIN, of course.

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

I love you as Harriet Vane! And Mark and Sara look just right. Milly is a Horrid Henry fan, too, although he's been nudged out a bit by Mr Gum and his friend Billy William the Third (the most disgusting butcher in the land).

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I ordered them used off of Amazon last night. Wahoo! Yay! New used books!

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE. It all makes so much sense.

...but I still want to see you as Mordred.

(on a side note, I was wondering--do you have sort of a birthday in mind for Telemakos? Because DF-wise, I have him for March, because he seems like kind of a March boy to me, but if you actually had something already I would be more than happy to switch. /weird concerns.)

[ewein2412]

of course I do. It's august 7 ("Trinity in the last month of our winter"). In some obscure calendrical calculations it's also Lughnasa (which is usually 1 August)

he's a LEO, der

[ewein2412]

tell me about mr. gum! mark needs to move on.

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

Aha! See, I knew I should ask. Thank you. ^_^

[tigertrapped.livejournal.com]

There are four books so far, by Andy Stanton. Quite surreal in a Spike Milligan/Vic Reeves sort of way, peopled by oddities but very funny and really rather domestic and gentle in its humour. Milly loves them, and so do I. The first one is You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum, and you can get it on CD as well as in paperback, which is a great way to get into the feel of the books. Hope they win Mark over; I tired of Horrid Henry a LONG time ago, but I love reading Mr Gum to Milly (she reads them to herself, too, but often requests I read them to her at bedtime, and it's always fun).

[ajl-r.livejournal.com]

What lovely bright clothes your children are wearing, and how cheerful they look. :) When one is habitually dressed in 'office black' or variations of it, along with colleagues, it's nice to see colour like this.

I like 'Busman's Honeymoon' almost as much as 'Gaudy Night'. You make a lovely Harriet Vane - but no studded dog collar...?

[ewein2412]

thank you! I will try them.

[ewein2412]

HAH!

[ewein2412]

he was born under a shower of Perseids

[rainbowjehan.livejournal.com]

What else?

[ewein2412]

I haven't thought. Actually, i haven't told you anything that doesn't actually appear in print somewhere, though of course The Empty Kingdom isn't out yet. But if it helps to put it in context, consider that he is born at about the time Medraut gets back to Orkney as a grown-up... and he (Telemakos) is three when Medraut comes to Camlan in the beginning of The Winter Prince

[mhari.livejournal.com]

...That is so weird to think about. *g*