45 - A Book with a Left-Handed Character

[Keisha]

For horror fans, Ruin Road my Lamar Giles

[Carolyn]

The lead character in demon copperhead is a leftie! Sorry I don’t know how to add it to the list!

[K.L.]

If anyone is interested in reading the Enola Holmes graphic novel adaptations, The Case of the Left-Handed Lady is included in the first collection.

[Joanna G]

If anyone else is reading or planning to the Canada Reads books, both the subjects of A Two-Spirit Journey and Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood make reference to their left-handedness.

[LeahS]

Every time during this challenge that I 've read a book featuring a real person, I've googled in the hope that they are/were left-handed, and I finally got there with A Country Road, A Tree, where the writer Samuel Beckett is the MC. Although he was trained to use his right hand to write, Beckett was apparently naturally left-handed, and played first-class cricket as a left-handed batsman and bowler.

I really enjoyed this book, the story of Beckett's life in France during World War II, where he works for the Resistance in Paris and southern France, and post-war for the Red Cross in Normandy. I've read Longbourn, also writtten by Jo Baker, which was good, but I thought this book was better, with wonderful descriptions of the privations suffered by Beckett and his partner, Suzanne. Interestingly, he is never named in the book until the end. The writing actually made me want to read something by Beckett!

[Ron]

Found out that H.G. Wells was left-handed so I'll be reading The War of the Worlds

[Theresa]

The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie has a left handed character - an important one.

[Diana]

I found out that one of the main characters in Emily Henry's Book Lovers is left handed in case romantic / rom-coms are something you're interested in.

[Laura Ruth]

Handy (so to speak) that this is the actual premise of Courtney Milan's The Brothers Sinister: The Complete Boxed Set #.5-4.5: the male main characters are left-handed. I read The Countess Conspiracy:

http://www.lauraruthloomis.com/whats-...

[Jen W.]

I just came across a line in A Letter from the Lonesome Shore about E.'s letters having been written with her left hand, which either wasn't mentioned or I missed in the first book, A Letter to the Luminous Deep.

So, adding those as options for this prompt.

[Nadine in NY]

I am currently reading The Heiress Effect for this category, and I was DELIGHTED when the protagonist announced that he was left-handed! (It's had nothing at all to do with the plot, so far, but it's good enough for me.)

[Elizabeth]

How to Train Your Dragon unfortunately does not *technically* have a left handed character. I just finished it and it's not mentioned. I even checked out the kindle version afterward so I could do a search. BUT it is in subsequent books, so it's up to you if you count it (I say yes.) But in terms of a one off book...It's just a movie thing. (To add, the book and movie are WILDLY different - but both wonderful).

[Rae]

Hiccup in the How to Train Your Dragon book series is left-handed. Readers find out about his handedness (view spoiler)[ and he does, too (hide spoiler)] in book two of the series How to Be a Pirate.

[Andrea]

I'm reading Disappoint Me, and the main character mentions she's left-handed in the second chapter of the book.

[Anupama]

I read Cutting for Stone for this prompt

[Sherri]

I read West of Santillane. It's fiction but the book described Merriweather Lewis as left handed. I googled if Merriweather Lewis was left handed. They couldn't confirm it but there was a picture of him holding his gun in his left hand. This is the closest I've gotten to filling this prompt so I'm using it.

[Sasha]

Sherri wrote: "I read West of Santillane. It's fiction but the book described Merriweather Lewis as left handed. I googled if Merriweather Lewis was left handed. They couldn't confirm it but ther..."

I definitely think that counts! The character is left handed because the book says so. It doesn't really matter whether the real person the character is based on was also left handed, imo. They're two different entities.

[Anshita]

I am listening to Starter Villain by John Scalzi. I found the book on the list for this prompt and can confirm that the character of Petersson declares in the book that she is left-handed. The blurb reads, "A man financially down on his luck discovers he inherited his dead uncle's villain business and now he is up against all the other villains."

[Jennifer W]

Last night I finished Blankets. At the very end of the book, the author mentions that his brother is a lefty. He's not a major character, but the prompt doesn't say it has to be a major character, so I think I'll go with it!

[Britany]

Finished

Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Ellen]

I read by Garth Nix.

[Acidic Quagga]

I really enjoyed Starter Villain by John Scalzi. It has a laid back writing style full of charm and wit.

[Andrea]

I just finished Cursed Daughters and one of the main characters is left-handed