30 Days of You Meme

[wednesday_whimsy]

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 →Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book

Now that's an easy one (finally). Pride & Prejudice is my favourite book. It has been my happy place since the first time I read it. It never fails to make me smile. It cheers me up and calms me down. If I could be any fictional character, I would want to be Elizabeth Bennett. ♥


Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Comments

[flakmagnet.livejournal.com]

No, just... no. I'm the first to admit that "classic" prose... let's tactfully say, "disagrees" with me. There are few books written before the turn of the 20th century that I can read more than once, I can't stand the writing style, I usually find the characters alienating because of the way they behave, and the language just plain bugs me.

But Pride & Prejudice? Man that book did nothing but frustrate me. Again, I'm the first to admit, I don't think English lessons should EVER dissect a book in the way or to the degree we are forced to, much less "classic" tales that society wishes to remember, they make me hate them, P&P and to Kill a Mockingbird are the entire thesis of my reasoning. Reading them and dissecting them in class made me hate them, and it will do nothing but sulley my memories of them.

So, my favorite book? Harder than my favorite movie or show, possibly the hardest thing for me to choose an all time favorite. Do I go with the ones that make me laugh the most? Cry the most? The ones that left me thinking about them the most? The one that I want to live the most? Answers to all of those are easy (I think!) But the one that I like the most? Agh!

Why am I only allowed one!? This is actually hurting my brain! Every time I start to rationalise one, another pops into my head and tells me in what way it is superior to another.

Marley & Me. It has to be. If there is only one book I'm ever allowed to read again, it's that one. It has everything, it made me laugh, it made me smile, it made me PINE for my own dog, and most of all, it made me cry. I've read it twice, and both times it got me. I wasn't stupid, I knew what was going to happen from the beginning of the first read-through, but the end isn't important (for once in a book) it's the amazing journey you spend getting there. Also, it's one of the few books where everything that happened could happen to me. And I like that. It's down to earth, real and incredible.

I didn't want to do this, but honorable mentions HAVE to be given for the book category:

The Hitchiker's Guide - Got me into SciFi and is probably the book I've read the most times.
Halo: The fall of Reach - The best expanded universe book of anything I've ever read.
Flowers for Algernon - Made me so happy and yet so sad.
One for the money - Beginning of one of my favorite series, and possibly the book character I would like to meet the most - Stephanie Plum
Best of Spider-man vol 1 - The literally the best comic book collection I've read.
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152- My favorite stand alone GN, forget Watchmen, V for Vendetta and all the pretentious crap, give me this anyday.

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

Now see, you can't say that. It's my favourite book. You might not agree but starting off like that really isn't nice. I have my own opinions. People aren't all the same and don't all like the same things and thank God. I don't agree with your choices, but I wouldn't talk about them like that. So you don't like P&P, that's fine. But this is my list so if you're going to disagree don't do it that way please.

[flakmagnet.livejournal.com]

My apologies, it isn't meant as a bashing your opinion type post, just as a why I can't get along with it. Don't get me wrong, I can see why some would like it, I meant it as more a why I don't think I ever can.

Obviously your opinion is just as valid as mine, and there are plenty of people who hate my favorite book, does't make their opinion any less valid either, I really didn't mean it to come off that way.

Again, my apologies!

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

And I'm sorry for jumping down your throat about it. Bad day, getting worse. It's fine. :)

[woollysocks]

Totally agree with you on that one :D

Who wouldn't want to be Elizabeth Bennet?

[jacqui-hw.livejournal.com]

No one! She's the best ever. :D