Tiffany Aching: The Everyday, Solitary Hero
To this day, I have never read Harry Potter.* Or Percy Jackson, or The Lord of The Rings. I know, shocking. That just wasn't the kind of literature I loved as a kid. My favorite books were Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, Betsy and Tacy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Ballet Shoes, and The Penderwicks : stories of ordinary little girls, who were special in one or two ways, and whose lives revolved around their families and friends, who barely ever traveled out of their hometowns, and certainly didn't do magic. My favorite stories always took place in the past, and I remember being fascinated by the characters' everyday lives. For example, there's a scene in the book Betsy, Tacy, and Tib where Betsy and Tacy learn there is a new girl living down the street and use this newfangled thing called the telephone to say hello to her, and I remember just being so charmed by how they did things. Same goes for embroidery in Little Women