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 favourite book
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

How about a picspam of two of my TV crushes?
































Day 13 → A fictional book

Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers.

I never used to read crime novels or detective fiction. Truthfully, because the book covers they used in the 60s/70s scared the crap out of me when my mum would read them. But I remember her telling me about one scene in Have His Carcase that made me go and read every book in the series.

Lord Peter and Harriet Vane are investigating a suspected murder.

"...I’ll have to get a decent frock if there is such a thing in Wilvercombe."

"Well, get a wine-coloured one, then. I’ve always wanted to see you in wine-colour. It suits people with honey-coloured skin. What an ugly word ‘skin’ is. ‘Blossoms of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured menuphar’—I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking."

Peter loves Harriet, but she refuses to marry him. Harriet's feelings are always safely locked away until this scene. Once he has told her to buy the wine-coloured frock, he leaves, but seconds later she runs after him to ask:

"Port or sherry?" she demanded.
"What?" said Wimsey, taken aback.
"The frock--port or sherry?"
"Claret," said Wimsey. "Chateau Margaux 1893 or thereabouts. I'm not particular within a year or two."

I suppose I fell in love with it for the same reason my mum did. I tend to think of myself as more of a romantic than she is, but this book to me is terribly romantic, even with all the death and intrigue, pages of deciphering secret messages and Peter and Harriet screaming at each other. DLS is a wonderful writer. She's very clever and she never patronizes her readers. Huge sections of French you don't understand? Well go and look it up. Her characters are beautifully formed. Her stories are everything you want from a detective novel, with romance and humour thrown in for free. Have His Carcase is not the first book in the series, (Whose Body?) and it's not the book that introduces Harriet Vane (Strong Poison), but it is my favourite.


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