Has it felt like Spring in your area? We had lots of rain on Saturday and then a beautiful Sunday. I have finally put away my winter jacket and have started wearing my ballet flats. Actually this Sunday, I had to bring out the shorts. Yep, we tend to go from cold to hot quickly here in Central Texas.
Anyway, Spring also means that Carl V. is once again hosting the Once Upon A Time challenge now in its ninth year! The event encompasses four broad categories: Fairy tale, folklore, fantasy and mythology, including countless sub-genres. The challenge continues through June 21 and the main rule is to have fun!
Who doesn’t want to join right? I’m in. I love this challenge because it has really helped me discover different genres from my typical go-to reads. There are various levels of participation and I’m going to try to complete Quest the First which requires that I read five books that fit somewhere within the categories.
I’m a big fan of making book lists for challenges but I didn’t quite have time to go through my shelves and see what books would be good choices but I do know that I have some fairy tales, some steampunk and fantasy books to choose from. Not many but I do have some.
Finally, isn’t the artwork for the banner beautiful? That is from a piece of art by Kimberly Kincaid.
Anyway what about you, are you in? What are you looking forward to reading?
Lovely artwork as always. I spent my late winter reading quite a bit of SFF and am in the middle of the fifth Game of Thrones book at the moment, after that I need to take a break from the genre reading for a while so I won’t be joining in. I do enjoy seeing what everyone else is reading though!
I enjoy making book lists too. 🙂 I had thought about joining in this year’s Once Upon a Time Challenge, but ultimately decided I would stick to my no challenge stance this year. I do love my fantasy novels though, so imagine it won’t stop me from reading any. 🙂
I’m kind of in between books at the moment. Well, that isn’t exactly true. I finished Haynes’ Behind Closed Doors and can get back to Jane Eyre now that my husband has caught up. It’s hard reading it slowly when all I want to do is keep reading it. I am not sure what I will pick up next. I have a tour coming up next month for a historical/family saga novel, but I’m kind of in the mood for something to help take the edge off Behind Closed Doors. I loved it, but it was such a dark subject.
We’ve had sunshine for two days now, and I’m loving it after the endless rain.
I’ve participated in the Once Upon a Time challenge since the very first one, but I never manage to post all my books.
Ooh, is it that time already? I am tempted to read along without formally joining as I really want to read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell–Not that I need to start a new book and not such a long one, but I can think about it… We finally got a little rain today, but it has turned cool again and so was chilly–I love spring, but trying to figure out what to wear every day is always a challenge! I’m looking forward to hearing about the books you are going to read!
I still haven’t made up my mind if I should participate in this challenge, knowing how my reading progress is. We shall see.
Happy reading and have fun! 🙂
And in the 80s the past two days! Crazy. I have my windows open today…which is ridiculous because my AC is on, but I just needed some of that fresh air. hopefully temps will calm down again soon. 🙂 Not ready for SUMMER.
Have fun with the challenge! Or maybe better called an event.
No, it doesn’t feel like spring in my area. We got some white precipitation overnight. Not a lot, but still some!
It’s Spring here too in Virginia! I am so happy to see some sun. It has been mostly cloudy this week and rainy today but no complaints – that is always better than snow and fleece jacket winter!
I love this challenge too, this is definitely tempting me. This is the challenge that encouraged me to read Neil Gaiman and The Princess Bride.
Winter is putting up a fight by us. We still had snow last week, but I can’t wait for the warm temps.