Once upon a time there was a Bookgirl who had a lot of energy. Right now, I’m still looking for her but slowly but surely she’s getting better and hopefully will be back to blogging with more frequency and visiting with blog friends soon. In the meantime, let’s talk about Carl V.’s great reading challenge!

I love the Once Upon A Time Challenge and have participated each year. I can’t remember if I’ve ever completed it but thanks to this challenge I discovered a new genre of books I used to not read. So of course I’m participating again but this time I’m going to take the first option which is The Journey. I like that I don’t have to commit to a set number of books.

That said, I’ve skimmed my shelves to see what could fit in this challenge and I’ve found a few books which would be perfect. I love making book lists so here is my list of potential reads. Let me know what you think of my choices and if there’s one I should pick up first!

• The Onion Girl
• The Stolen Child
• The Penelopiad
• Icelandic Folk and Fairy Tales

Oh and I just got some coupons for Half Price Books so I think I need to go visit soon and who knows, I may find other books to add to my list of potentials. Anyway, off to finish up a mystery set in Iceland.

I’ve recently received quite a few ARCs and thought I’d tell you about those. I find that I tend to go through cycles when it comes to ARCs. Sometimes I get overwhelmed and don’t want to accept any and then there are times when I want them all. Ah well, that’s a nice problem to have isn’t it? hee.

So here are the latest books. Let me know if you’ve got these on your wish list.

• Easy For You by Shannon Rouss
• Cottage By the Sea by Ciji Ware
• Rumor Has It by Jill Mansell
• The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor
• The Season of Second Chances by Diane Meier
• One Hundred Great French Books by Lance Donaldson-Evans

What about you? Gotten some good stuff lately?