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 11. – Favourite classic book.

If I had to choose just one, I’d go with The Mabinogion, that remarkable collection of medieval Welsh prose tales that stands as one of the great surviving treasures of early Welsh literature. It isn’t a single authored novel but an anthology of eleven stories, gathered in the 12th–13th centuries and written in Middle Welsh, yet drawn from oral traditions far older than the manuscripts themselves.

What makes it so compelling is not just its age, though it predates the so‑called “classics” like Dickens by centuries, but its depth. These are stories that carry the weight of myth, morality, and memory. They teach lessons without preaching, weaving together magic, heroism, tragedy, and humour in a way only the old Celtic storytellers could manage.

It is, in every sense, Welsh to its bones: proud, strange, lyrical, and utterly itself. As classic books go, you’d be hard‑pressed to find one more deserving of the title.