{"id":3172,"date":"2011-03-23T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2011-03-23T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T06:04:00","slug":"once-upon-a-time-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"once upon a time v"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/once2011150.jpg\" alt=\"Once Upon a Time V Challenge\" align=right hspace=5 vspace=5 \/>The annual spring reading challenge has arrived. For the fifth year, Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings is hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stainlesssteeldroppings.com\/once-upon-a-time-v\">Once upon a Time Challenge<\/a> that encourages readers to spend the season reading from the fantasy genre.<\/p>\n<p>I will be doing the Quest the First, which mandates that one<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time criteria. They might all be fantasy, or folklore, or fairy tales, or mythology \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 or your five books might be a combination from the four genres.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First up on my list is the new Jasper Fforde novel, <em>One of Our Thursdays Is Missing<\/em>, which my <a href=\"http:\/\/politics-prose.com\">local bookstore<\/a> has on hold for me. After that, I&#8217;m hoping to tackle some of the books I have lying around the house or checked out from the library, including Lev Grossman&#8217;s <em>The Magicians<\/em>, Bill Willingham&#8217;s <em>Peter &#038; Max<\/em>, and Janet Evanovich&#8217;s <em>Wicked Appetite<\/em>. I also think I have Erin Bow&#8217;s <em>Plain Kate<\/em> hiding somewhere in the Burrow, but I haven&#8217;t seen it for a while, so it&#8217;s a possibility that it&#8217;s actually an entirely different novel. But if I do own it, I&#8217;d love to find and read it.<\/p>\n<p>Got any recommendations you think I should check out between now and the start of summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual spring reading challenge has arrived. For the fifth year, Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings is hosting the Once upon a Time Challenge that encourages readers to spend the season reading from the fantasy genre. 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