Comments for Win Brother
The rules for the contest are as follows:
Comment #1: Saturday, December, 6, 2008 at 11:40:53
Darby Lohrding
My favorite fictional sibling currently ia "Kenya" from Ann Patchetts book "Run".
My all time favorite fictional sibling thou is "Scout" from "To Kill a Mockingbird". Thanks for the memories!
Darby
Commenet #2: Saturday, December, 6, 2008 at 14:08:09
Angela Jacobs
Little Women!
Comment #3: Saturday, December, 6, 2008 at 15:55:53
Alicia Webster
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. When I first started this book I was totally confused because it goes back and forth from past to present, but I stayed with it, and it turned out to be one of the best fiction books that I've ever read. I love how it captures the idea that brothers can be completely different, and yet there is that familial tie that binds, that always seems to find some commonality between the two on which to stand.
Comment #4: Saturday, December, 6, 2008 at 17:17:26
janeh
My favorite brothers in fiction are the Tarelton Twins in Gone With the Wind....Margaret Mitchell's descriptions of her book's characters were so vivid, and I was able to see them in my mind....I was very young when I first read the book, and to this day, I can remember how I felt when I read that they were killed in battle during the civil was, and they died together...within seconds.
Comment #5: Sunday, December, 7, 2008 at 07:28:31
Kim H.
My fave siblings are the girls in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I love the way they come together and help each other out when they were young and as they grew older.
Comment #6: Sunday, December, 7, 2008 at 08:05:08
Lindymc
I loved the search for Dooley's scattered siblings in the Mitford books, a series by Jan Karon. I'd love to win Brother. Thanks.
Comment #7: Sunday, December, 7, 2008 at 09:09:55
Judith
I grew up reading the Hardy Boys series of books by Franklin W. Dixon, featuring Frank and Joe Hardy who had the freedom to run around and investigate mysteries while I was always stuck at home doing homework.
Comment #8: Sunday, December, 7, 2008 at 23:09:07
Angela Jacobs
Little Women, they seemed to live in such an idyllic period of time.
Comment #9: Sunday, December, 7, 2008 at 23:22:21
Jenn S.
Linus and Lucy (from the Charlie Brown series) are my favorite fictional siblings.
Comment #10: Monday, December, 8, 2008 at 01:40:08
David G Bertolo
The Hardy Boys is a juvenile detective/adventure series, chronicling the fictional adventures of teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. The original Hardy Boys series was produced by Stratemeyer Syndicate, published by Grosset & Dunlap, and written by many different authors between 1927 and 1979. Leslie McFarlane was the first author to write under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon, which he did for over 20 volumes.
Comment #11: Monday, December, 8, 2008 at 02:16:53
Nicole
I loved pride and prejudice by jane austen and elizabeth bennet was my favorite out all the bennet sisters because she wasn't afraid to be herself!
Comment #12: Tuesday, December, 9, 2008 at 10:38:52
Becca
My favorite fictional siblings would have to be the Simon brothers from the TV show Simon and Simon but I think the question refers to books. So my favorite siblings from a book would probably be Chumley and Tananda the troll and trollop brother, sister team from Robert Asprins Myth series. The books are completely corny and full of bad puns but that is what I like about them.
Comment #13: Friday, December, 12, 2008 at 23:34:47
One of my favorite sets of fictional siblings would be Anne's kids from Anne of Ingleside and Rilla of Ingleside by Madeleine L'Engle. I specifically liked Walter and Rilla.
I blogged about it here.
Comment #14: Friday, December, 19, 2008 at 10:52:41
sandra kao
the sisters of little women by Louisa May Alcott, a story about the lives and loves of sisters
Comment #15: Friday, December, 26, 2008 at 14:36:45
Darby Lohrding
Run by Ann Patchett, has some of my favorite siblings. I just love how the brothers by family adopt into their hearts their soon to be sister "Kenya" before she is officially adopted. The brothers have an interesting bond with their father as well which is quite respectful. Lots of Love in this book. Thanks for the opportunity to win and read "Brother", sounds like a great read! Darby
Comment #16: Sunday, December, 28, 2008 at 10:49:22
Nancy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, a classic!
Comment #17: Monday, December, 29, 2008 at 01:17:20
My favorite fictional siblings are Dolph and Ivy from the Xanth series by Piers Anthony. Xanth is a fantasy series that centers around a world made up of people that possess unique magical talents. It's full of all kinds of puns and creatures... a great series!
Comment #18: Wednesday, December, 31, 2008 at 16:49:52
My favorite would be a series of books by Gilbert Morris - The Home Place, The Dream, The Miracle and The Courtship. These were before I started blogging - so let me see what I can remember. This is set in the 1930's - mom of the family dies in childbirth - dad is wrongly convicted of a murder (it was self-defense) - children are left alone being raised by the oldest who I think was 14 or 15. There are 5 kids. Over the course of the 4 books the kids really bond as a family, but state finds out that there is no adult relative - so oldest child sets out to find and retrieve an aunt to come and live with them. They are a great series of books and I would highly recommend them!
Comment #19: Friday, January, 2, 2009 at 00:12:35
Tammy
My favorite fictional siblings are probably Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie from the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis.
They are true to life siblings, squabbling amongst themselves, but when push comes to shove are there for each other.
Sort of like me and my siblings :)
Comment #20: Sunday, January, 4, 2009 at 03:03:31
There are so many! My favorites that come to mind are from The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. The Ya Yas aren't really sisters but a small group of southern women who are lifelong friends. They have seen each other through everything good and bad and raised their own children together as well. I loved that book.
I've added your contest onto my blog. Thanks and happy new year!
Comment #21: Monday, January, 5, 2009 at 16:36:34
Jean F
The March Sisters. I'm currently working on a crossover fan fic...Nine Princes in Amber/Little Women
Comment #22: Monday, January, 5, 2009 at 18:13:54
Ed Nemmers
Briony and Cecelia Tallis from Ian McEwan's "Atonement" exemplify sorrow and repentance.
Comment #23: Tuesday, January, 6, 2009 at 16:47:33
I love Scout & Jem & brother-like Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Comment #24: Tuesday, January, 6, 2009 at 17:49:07
Angela Prater
I have kids, so my favorite fictional siblings are Jack and Annie in the Magic Treehouse series. Such a great, fun and exciting pair they are.
Comment #25: Tuesday, January, 6, 2009 at 19:23:53
sito
My favorite fictional siblings were the twins Niles and Holland from The Other by Thomas Tryon. This is a horror novel with a good twin and an evil twin. Back when I first read it, I never saw the twist coming; perhaps now it would be more obvious, but it was such a good read.
Comment #26: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 03:37:32
My favorite siblings in fiction are the Boxcar children, from The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner. It's about four ophans who set up house in a little abandoned boxcar. I really enjoyed those books when I was a kid!
Comment #27: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 07:15:29
jason fiske
Bert and Nan from the Bobbsey Twins. Grew up with these twins and their other sibblings by reading them. Now have my own set of twins. Plenty of books by Laura Lee Hope (Or that was the pen name)
Comment #28: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 07:31:32
dianad
Deceptions by Judith Michael
I read this many years ago and remember thoroughly enjoying it. It's about twins who decide to exchange roles. One is living a life of glitter in London and the other is married with two children.
Comment #29: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 07:51:01
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott. I just loved reading about all of the sisters and their lives. Great story.
Comment #30: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 12:01:15
dorothy l
the hardy boys they were smart and fun at the same time written by Franklin W. Dixon
Comment #31: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 12:08:34
I like the two bad sisters in the Big Sleep. I'm in a Raymond Chandler phase!
Comment #32: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 13:31:55
Buddy Garrett
Enemy Brothers author Constance Savery British Airman is convinced that the German prisoner he has Max Eckermann is his brother Anthony kidnapped years before. When Max/Anthony is about to resign himself to his English family he gets an opportunity to return to Germany. Enemy Brothers is an inside view of the confusion of war and of the triumpj of the human spirit in the midst of it.
Comment #33: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 15:14:50
Pamela White
I like the Alden children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, Benny also known as the Boxcar children.I liked the series because they solved problems of living and the mysterys that came their way. The books are written by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
Comment #34: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 21:25:32
Marcy Lynn Strahan
Flopsy, Mopsy & Cottontail (rabbits from Beatrice Potter's famous books).
Comment #35: Wednesday, January, 7, 2009 at 22:31:50
Susanne Troop
The girls in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I like how their bonds grew as they grew older!