It’s Thursday and time for truth or dare!
Truth: What is a book you have never read but that you know you really ought to have read? Mine is The Great Gatsby.
Dare: Wear something funky, You know, that outfit that you put together a while ago and that you love but aren’t quite confident enough to wear? Wear it!
Share your stories in the comments!
Dare for sure! Photos coming!
Yes!
I’ll take the dare, possibly with pictures.
Dare accomplished. I went out dressed much like Dorothy Gale – blue and white checked dress, silver shoes and rainbow necklace. I considered pigtails, but that seemed to take it from “inspired by” to “Bad costume.”
photos, pleeeeeease? Dorothy has been my fave since I was 3.
This is me expressing my opinion about my husband’s efforts at creative direction.
You are my hero.
Oh! I need to take the wardrobe challenge! I always chicken out and pick the boring clothes. :)
I really want to read The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. I started it in high school, but I was reading it at a guest house and couldn’t take it with me.
I don’t really feel like IÂ ought to read anything, to be honest. Letter rebel for life! But let me think .. hmm .. no, nothing pops up. Although I might not be that big of a rebel because I pick a Classic from time to time to read and discover what the fuss is about.
I like the wardrobe dare, because today I am dressed like a drunk 8-year-old and that really needs to change.
If you do go for it – PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN
I have never read Clan of the Cave Bears.
I haven’t read that one, either.
OH GOD DON’T IT’S AWFUL. Also really full of rape, which I wish someone had told me before I started it. I ended up hurling it across the room.
There are so many of the “classics” that I never read, but enough cartoons and TV shows reference them enough that I *feel* like I know them enough that I think I’d be bored if I actually read them. i.e. Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, anything by any of the Brontes, most of Austen, most of Dickens, Little Women, either Lewis Carroll, The Prince, anything by Hemingway…. the list is nearly endless. But part of me assumes that those books will always be around and copies will always be accessible at libraries and such. And someday I’ll actually have the time to actually go through them… some day.
As for wearing something funky, that is kind of a challenge. There are very few things in my wardrobe/floordrobe that don’t fall under the category of “earthtone”. There is a head scarf I have that is bright green that I love, but never wear. I’m sure I could pull something funky together. Oh! Especially since I’m going to see the circus this weekend! You can wear anything at a circus…
Fifty Shades of Gr... oh, I can’t even type it all out without laughing.
I really haven’t been much of a book person for the past… twenty years or so, after being one of those kids who sat in her room and read day in/day out for the entirety of her youth. So, I’m sure there’s a lot I’ve missed, but I’m also sure that I read so much as a kid I don’t feel that I’ve missed anything.
I wear funky stuff all the time! But some of my cool stuff is a little small these days, so I am hoping to fit into some of the cooler pieces again soon. I have an outfit of ties that’s fun (a tie vest/shirt with a tie kilt-like skirt), and so on. Maybe later I’ll put on my long orange-and-cream flouncy skull skirt with the studded ivory-and-black skull shirt I got recently. It’ll be a theme!
I have never read Persuasion even though everyone who has claims it to be Austin’s master work, and I love Austin.
And I have a pair of bright purple skinny jeans that I haven’t worn in a while because I worry that I might be a little old for vibrantly colored pants. I think I’ll break them out this weekend.
As someone who works FT in retail and spends lots of time watching the clothes of her customers, I can assure you that one is never to old to wear anything. If you own the look, no one will think anything other than, “Those are fabulous pants.”
Persuasion is one of my favorites. And you wear the hell out of those purple pants!
Purple pants! Hell yeah.
The purple pants.