It’s been a while since I did a Top Ten Tuesday post and this week’s was an easy one so it was a perfect way to jump back in. This week it’s name your Top Ten Character Names I Love or Top Ten Unusual Character Names. Mine is a bit of a combo. Some of these names I do love and some are unusual so they are memorable.

Here are my top ten:

• Valancy from The Blue Castle by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Such a good story too.
• Trixie Belden from the Trixie Belden mystery series I loved as a child.
• Daisy Fay from Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man. I just thought that named fit the character perfectly.
• Lestat from Interview With A Vampire. I used to be a huge Anne Rice fan. Did I ever tell you she was one of the first author book signings I ever went to?
• Verity Kindle from To Say Nothing of the Dog. I still need to read more by Connie Willis.
• Turtle from The Bean Trees. If you’ve not read this book add it to your list.
• Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I don’t think I can read another character named Lisbeth without not thinking about this girl first.
• Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces. Zany story and characters.
• Precious Ramotswe from The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series. It’s been a long time since I read one of these books. I wonder what the famous lady detective is up to now.
• Maisie Dobbs from the Maisie Dobbs series. Love the character and series and am eager for the next book.

This was fun to put together. What about you? What are some of your favorite/memorable character names?

Another weekend that seems to have flown by but it was filled with a lot of goodness so I can’t complain. I got to see my dear friend Christine and her husband. We had a yummy dinner, great conversation and it was just so nice to be able to spend time together. They also gifted me with a signed copy of Remember How I Told You I Loved You by Gillian Linden. Aren’t my friends the best?

That’s not the only new book that I’ve added to my shelves either. I had some other book arrivals this week:

The Panda Theory by Pascal Garnier. A French noir book from Gallic Books. I also got Perfect Timing by Laura Spinella which sounds like a good love story. The other book is There Is A God! by Richard Smith and Maureen McElheron which has 1,001 heartwarming (and hilarious) reasons to believe. Not necessarily something I would pick up but this might be kind of a fun read and I like that they used an exclamation point in the title. Finally The Vintage Teacup Club by Vanessa Greene. Ah perfect timing as I was just talking about drinking tea in my last post.

I also got to play in my art journal a little bit. I took the image of the girl from a Europa Editions catalog. I also happened to be listening to Camera Obscura and I just took some of the lyrics from their song Forest and Sands and switched it to “I” for my page. I feel like my page still needs something but I’ll have to go back to it another time and see what I think.

Finally the day was sunny and beautiful so we took our bikes to the veloway for three rounds. I’m loving my new bike.

So the one thing I didn’t get to do was catch up on my blog reading. I hope you guys have been having a wonderful weekend. Now, I need to go check out my shelves and find a scary read so I can complete my R.I.P. challenge.