The idea is delightfully simple: for 30 days, you post once a day in response to a book-themed question. That’s it. No essays, no footnotes, no need to summon the ghost of Shakespeare, just honest answers, curious reflections, and maybe a few cheeky confessions about your reading habits. I have decided to take part this year, and since I picked a month with 31 days (I know it would have made more sense to use a 30 day one) I am using March 1st to explain what I am doing.

Each day brings a new prompt: favourite characters, memorable endings, guilty pleasures, and the books that made you weep, rage, or fall in love with the written word. It’s a gentle nudge to celebrate your literary life, one post at a time.

So why not give it a go? Dust off your bookshelf, sharpen your wit, and join the challenge. Thirty days. Thirty questions. One slightly eccentric bookworm’s journey through the pages.

DAY 6. – Book you’ve read the most number of times.

(A sequel to yesterday’s “comfort book” confession)

Yesterday’s prompt asked for my “comfort” book, and after a brief stare‑down with my bookshelves, the kind of contemplative moment normally reserved for monks and people choosing a takeaway, I admitted the truth: it’s The Lord of the Rings. I’ve been rereading it since I was about eleven or twelve, and at this point it’s less a book and more a long‑term relationship.

So when today’s prompt asked for the book I’ve read the most times… well, there’s no suspense left, is there? It’s the same one. Again. Still. Always.

But the interesting part isn’t the answer, it’s the why.

This answer/post seems a little bit like a cop out for me. I will admit I did not read the list of prompts before starting this 30Day Challenge, if I had then I would probably have shuffled a few of the posts about. Which would have prevented things like this happening, two identical posts after each other.