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 29. – A book you hated.

My choice for this one is “To Be A Mason: Embracing the Illuminated Path of Brotherhood” by Wayne Devlin.

To be fair, hate is far too strong a word. It is more a case of deep and persistent dislike. The book reads as if someone wrote a long list of chapter descriptions and then forgot to include the actual chapters. I reached the end and realised that I had somehow read an entire book without learning anything at all. It was like eating a meal made entirely of menu descriptions.

What makes it more frustrating is that it could have been an interesting book. The ideas hinted at in the chapter summaries had real potential, but none of that promise ever appears on the page. It is all outline and no substance, all introduction and no delivery.