Top Ten Tuesday: My Top 10 Favorite Book Moms
Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Mother’s Day related Freebie: favorite moms in literature, books about motherhood, best mother/daughter or son relationships, books to buy your mom, worst moms in literature, etc.”
My list might come across as a little weird because while yes I love badass moms who are willing to sacrifice everything to keep their children safe and happy like the ladies from Harry Potter, Marmee from Little Women, Lena Younger from A Raisin in the Sun, and Momma Carter from The Hate U Give, I’m also attracted to those problematic moms you love to hate like Mrs. Bennett from Pride and Prejudice and Cersei Lannister from A Song of Fire and Ice series. I think Bernadette Fox from Where’d You Go, Bernadette? probably falls in the middle of the spectrum. She’s kind of a hot mess, but at the same time, she is a refreshingly honest character. Anyway, so I’d say my list of favorite moms is basically a list of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
My Top Ten Favorite Book Moms
1, 2, 3. MOLLY WEASLEY, NYMPHADORA TONKS, & LILY POTTER from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
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4. MA from Room by Emma Donoghue
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5. MARMEE MARCH from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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6. LENA YOUNGER from A Raisin in the Sun
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7. MRS. BENNETT from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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8. MOMMA CARTER from The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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9. BERNADETTE FOX from Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
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10. CERSEI LANNISTER from the A Song of Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin
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