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 28. – Favourite quote from a book.

There is a line in The Hunger by Whitley Strieber that I first read many years ago, sometime in the late eighties, and it struck such a deep chord with me that it has followed me ever since. I liked it so much that I used it on my website back in the early nineties, long before social media was even a thought. It has been on my Facebook header, my desktop wallpaper, and anywhere else I could reasonably place it without looking completely unhinged.

The quote is this:

It is not easy being an egomaniac with an inferiority complex

There is something wonderfully honest in that line, a perfect blend of humour, self reflection, and a little bit of theatrical flair. It captures the human condition in a single sentence, especially for those of us who stride forward with confidence while quietly wondering if we have any idea what we are doing.

Since I have been carrying this quote around for the better part of thirty years, it has to be my favourite. It has become part of my personal mythology, a small truth wrapped in a grin, and it still makes me smile every time I see it.