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What is it about people asking you "what is your favourite x?" that immediately drives every option out of your head.

Part of my problem is I rarely have a singular favourite. Instead I end up desperately prepping a few rote answers to fall back on in those invariable moments of blankness.

Lately, On the Jellicoe Road is still holding steady as favourite book, but I'm starting to think it's due for a change after my last re-read - I still love it to pieces, but it's a relic of a younger time, and I have read so much more since then. I shall have to ponder on what the primary challengers are.

(Chicken Run is too useful and true to be shifted from favourite movie, may it reign eternal. Ergo Proxy is unlikely to be ousted any time soon as well.)

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My mind always goes blank too. I've sorta come up with a book answer (Gaudy Night by Sayers) but there's just too much to choose from! Even when 90% of books are meh to good, just numbers wise trying to synthesize all the info to declare the best is so hard.

Yes! Especially when it feels like you're nominating the fave to either say something about yourself, or to recommend to others - I think part of why I'm drifting from Jellicoe Road is it's a YA novel, and that hasn't been most representative of my reading choices for a while now.

But then what makes a fave? Most read? Dearest to heart? (Too many, and for such varied reasons.) Objectively best?

I still love it to pieces, but it's a relic of a younger time

Oh, that feeling. It's a strange one, isn't it? Not particularly bad, but also kind of ouchy.

And Chicken Run! I haven't watched that in a long time!

It's a sign!! A sign that you should rewatch Chicken Run >:)

"A bit ouchy" sums it up well. It's not as though the magic has been lost, exactly (which I can't always say - I tried cracking open a Redwall novel a while back, and to my great sorrow struggled to get into it) but I'm not sure it's what I'd want people to read and think of me as a consequence, anymore.

Do you have any staple faves?

Do you have any staple faves?

That's a good question. I loved The Martian to pieces when I first read it, but I've haven't been able to reread it in years partly due to depression brain, and partly due to worrying (not without cause) that it will make me a giggly mess in public. The movie remains a dear feel-good comfort movie, probably one of my favourites along with Stardust.

I, too, have a Redwall book! It's Mossflower, which I couldn't get into the last time I tried to read it either, but I couldn't bear to get rid of it, so maybe I'll give it another go at some point.

I haven't read the book, but I really enjoyed The Martian movie! A good combo of interesting science problem-solving, beautiful space scenery, and heartwarming social commentary. Plus I just like Damon as an actor.

Aww, Mossflower. As a kid I had a stuffed cat I named Gingivere after one of the characters.

PS Guess who watched Chicken Run today :)

>:D YEAHHHH

"Stick your head between your knees and kiss your bum goodbye" haunts every single flight I take.

My favourite has to be:

"The chickens are revolting!"
"Finally, something we agree on."

Poor Mr Tweedy!

Apple pies are my favourite kind of pie too, buddy :(

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