Beth Bartlett of Squiggle couldn’t resist tagging me with a fascinating meme on Tuesday. Actually, she tagged me with TWO memes at the same time. The memes are full of wonderous details and remarkable questions so I decided to break up these meme into five parts.

If you could live for a month in one world or time period from a novel you’ve read, which would you choose, and why?

 Inside a Medieval Home - Would you live a life then?

I would LOVE to experience a medieval world. Any story that goes back to a time when people peed in chamber pots, clattered swords against battered sheilds, paid their levy in grain or pigs to the land baron, and served mulled wine with broth and bread at a nearby tavern, captivates me. These are also the stories I love to write; an era that holds my heart.

Novels I’ve read that involves worlds from times past include, Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” Trilogy (primarily the first novel), Traci Harding’s “The Ancient Future” (other novels in her trilogies move around with time travel but are still enjoyable, Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” series, and two series by David Eddings, “The Belgariad” and “The Malloreon“.

I feel a strange affinity with this time period; when houses were a work of passion by the family who would live inside; when the state of your floor showed your standing in society; where a community depended on the support of every citizen to withstand the cold winters or the harsh raiders. People held their King in high regard as a moral citizen that guided and protected their homes and families in those time and war was personal, hand to hand and you stood beside your neighbours to vanquish those who would take your land, slaughter your livestock, and plunder your womenfolk.

That would be MY world if I’d been given the choice to be born in a different age. I’d be a bard, or lodging mistress, telling stories by the evening fire with a gentle lull from the enthralled listeners.

Now, I challenge YOU! “If YOU could live for a month in one world or time period from a novel you’ve read, which would YOU choose, and why?” Feel free to answer in the comments below or take the meme over to your own blog. If you blog about your answer please come back and leave a link in the comments so we can all see your own thoughts and ideas.