I am participating in the High Summer Read-a-Thon and decided to take on a challenge to write. a letter to a character from one of the books I am reading during the read-a-thon. So I have chosen to write to Don Quixote because I have been reading this Big chunky book since the beginning of June. So here goes...
Dear Don Quixote of La Mancha,
Also known as the Knight of the Sorrowful Face,
Also known as the Knight of the Lions,
I have admired you from afar for years and have only recently decided to take my fate into my own hands and declare my love for you.
You, mad, bumbling fool, that you are, have stolen my heart with your chivalrous ways and your love of books. These books that you love, dried up your brain and made you mad and set you off of on your journey of knight errantry. Your crazy acts of chivalry made me notice you and fall in love with you even though you have pledged your heart to the peasant girl, Dulcinea of Toboso, who enchants you with her wicked looks. Oh, how I wish you would notice me, for it is I, who holds you, in the palm of my hands and makes your story come alive.
I’m not sure if you know this, Don Quixote, but the Spanish world adores you. I have visited statues erected in your honor. Even I, have a Starbucks mug that contains your likeness, on which I ponder our future together, over a strong mug of tea.
I want adventure, my dear Don Quixote, and I want to save babies, and right, wrongs and help those in need like you do. If it so pleases you my lord, may I follow you through Spain as you protect the unfortunate? Or can I dare hope to replace Dulcinea of Toboso in your heart and as your enchantress?
Send me your answer forthwith or as fast as your skinny nag, Rocinante can carry.
I anxiously await your loving reply,
Your ladyship and faithful reader,
Laura of Booksnob
