Finalists are selected by category scoring and considered for honors. We consider this a distinction of its own merit and, in 2008, began officially announcing these titles. Do you know your Hogwarts house? Do you have fictional characters you feel are mirror images of your own personality? Let me know in a comment.Eric Hoffer Book Award Gold Seal © The Eric Hoffer ProjectĪfter our rigorous first round of judging, less than 10% of the nominees become category finalists. But I also have a fair degree of social anxiety, which can get pretty intense in certain situations, bearing a strong resemblance to Raj's inability to talk to girls (in the early seasons). So, yeah, I'd say I have a good bit of Sheldon in me. I don't even know if my kids were still listening by the time I was finished. It took about twenty minutes to get through all of it. I even drew diagrams on the marker board in my kitchen.

Remember how I said I go on and on about subjects that interest me? One day my kids asked me what a sentence in one of the Harry Potter books meant, and I gave them a full history lesson, beginning with Ancient Egypt and working all the way up to present day. With regard to The Big Bang Theory, I'm really a combination of two characters. But, alas, I'm nowhere near that well-adjusted. Don't we all want to be Leonard? He's so even tempered and logical and just an all around nice guy. I also have an intense phobia of being late to, well, anything, and I'm driven by this obsessive need to be the best at everything. Okay, I'm not much of a neat freak, but I do have my specific ways of doing things and get very upset if someone messes up my system. Can you guess who I am? Who is the Ravenclaw on Friends? Ross, probably, and I may have a little bit of him in me (my children say I have his habit of droning on and on when discussing topics nobody else cares about), but in my heart of hearts I'm totally Monica. This was the first fictional universe I identified with. Just because we're quiet and like to keep to ourselves doesn't mean we're plotting the world's destruction. I was so disappointed when they turned out to be the bad guys. And if I'm a Ravenclaw in the Potter universe, obviously I'm Erudite in the world of Divergent. The factions in the Divergent books bear a striking similarity to the Hogwarts houses. Before Harry Potter came along, I just called myself a nerd. Get me going on a good nerd-talk session and good luck getting me to shut up. Put me in a big enough library and you may never see me again. Research is one of my favorite ways to have fun. I yearned to be the teacher's pet when I was in school. Reading is my idea of an exciting way to spend a Friday night. Finding our true Hogwarts house is so popular, it's almost replaced Myers-Briggs as the preferred way to define our personalities. Of course I have to start with Harry Potter.

Road to Yesterday by Greta Cribbs