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Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite 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
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
So this "days" thing is pretty much moot with me, isn't it? After spending an hour not finding an incredibly easy to find expressway yesterday, I was too tired to do this, and today I finally wrote that short script I've been meaning to write for a while so I have something to talk about at the Film Networking thing tomorrow. The point is: here's the book portion of the meme.
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill: I read this book only a month ago, yet it's already in my top three. It became one of my favorites since the instant I started crying during the last pages. Crying. I have cried exactly four times while reading something. Two times it was with Legolas/Gimli fanfic, one time at the end of the His Dark Materials series, and here. This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It's the love story of two boys in Dublin right before the Easter Rising in 1916 and the turmoil crashing all around them. I've been reading bits and pieces of it since I finished it. It's absolutely wonderful.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore: My favorite books by my favorite comic writer. I found this while killing time in Borders during my first year of college, Chicago 2001 (or 2, I'm not sure) Randolph St., new releases table., I was desperately trying not to go back to the dorm (it was really boring there). Upon the first skimming, it didn't catch my attention (me and the Christianity avoidance, but the second time, haven't found nothing else, I said, "why not?" I took it upstairs to the second floor, where there was a nice, wide sill overlooking the square (that is now buried under yet another building, completely interrupting the flow and desperately needed air of Clark St, but never mind). I was only planning on staying there for half an hour then putting the book down, maybe buying it online if I liked it. I ended up leaving two hours later after dishing out $30 for this fully priced hardcover plus tax when I never, ever buy a book at the shop, especially not hardcovers, and never for such a horrendous price as $30, but there was no way I was going to wait a week to get this through Amazon. I had to read the entire thing now. Then I read it again. And again. In one week. It's hilarious. And moving. This is the book I pick up when I really need cheering up.
The entirety of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth works: The most impressive fantastic world ever created by a single man. I went from having comfortable savings to owning only $60 in the course of two months after FOTR came out buying all this books (plus a sword. And an axe. And two rings, but that's neither here nor there). I read it as both old literature and history at once, especially with all the different potential versions for some characters' backstory and I lose myself for days whenever the Tolkien fever is reawakened. This is the first fandom for which I wrote multiple fics (but since they were written in the early days, they're all crap).
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite 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
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
So this "days" thing is pretty much moot with me, isn't it? After spending an hour not finding an incredibly easy to find expressway yesterday, I was too tired to do this, and today I finally wrote that short script I've been meaning to write for a while so I have something to talk about at the Film Networking thing tomorrow. The point is: here's the book portion of the meme.
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill: I read this book only a month ago, yet it's already in my top three. It became one of my favorites since the instant I started crying during the last pages. Crying. I have cried exactly four times while reading something. Two times it was with Legolas/Gimli fanfic, one time at the end of the His Dark Materials series, and here. This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It's the love story of two boys in Dublin right before the Easter Rising in 1916 and the turmoil crashing all around them. I've been reading bits and pieces of it since I finished it. It's absolutely wonderful.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore: My favorite books by my favorite comic writer. I found this while killing time in Borders during my first year of college, Chicago 2001 (or 2, I'm not sure) Randolph St., new releases table., I was desperately trying not to go back to the dorm (it was really boring there). Upon the first skimming, it didn't catch my attention (me and the Christianity avoidance, but the second time, haven't found nothing else, I said, "why not?" I took it upstairs to the second floor, where there was a nice, wide sill overlooking the square (that is now buried under yet another building, completely interrupting the flow and desperately needed air of Clark St, but never mind). I was only planning on staying there for half an hour then putting the book down, maybe buying it online if I liked it. I ended up leaving two hours later after dishing out $30 for this fully priced hardcover plus tax when I never, ever buy a book at the shop, especially not hardcovers, and never for such a horrendous price as $30, but there was no way I was going to wait a week to get this through Amazon. I had to read the entire thing now. Then I read it again. And again. In one week. It's hilarious. And moving. This is the book I pick up when I really need cheering up.
The entirety of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth works: The most impressive fantastic world ever created by a single man. I went from having comfortable savings to owning only $60 in the course of two months after FOTR came out buying all this books (plus a sword. And an axe. And two rings, but that's neither here nor there). I read it as both old literature and history at once, especially with all the different potential versions for some characters' backstory and I lose myself for days whenever the Tolkien fever is reawakened. This is the first fandom for which I wrote multiple fics (but since they were written in the early days, they're all crap).
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