Once Upon a Time III Challenge completed

Happy Midsummer! :-) And another edition of Carl's Once Upon a Time challenge has finished. I did better than I did last year and even managed to read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, which bumps me up from Quest the First to Quest the Third status. Yay!

Here's what I read (see here for what I planned to read)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip

Plus: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

All fantasy and fairy tales... none of these books thrilled me to the core or anything, but I did enjoy reading them... With a lot of fantasy, I find that I want to like it more than I do in the end. But I still want to explore more and am waiting for next year's challenge!

Thanks Carl for hosting, this was fun!

Once Upon a Time III

Carl is hosting this fabulous challenge again - and this is one you don't want to miss, it's become a tradition in the blogging world that spring time is fantasy and mythology time!

Carl is really good at getting everyone to participate, even people who don't have that much time or promised not to join any more challenges. He's created various levels of participation - check them out in his post about the challenge.

I'm opting for Quest the First: Read at least 5 books that fit somewhere within the Once Upon a Time III criteria. These criteria are basically fantasy, fairy tale, mythology and folklore. Cool, eh? My possibilities are below...

The challenge ends at Midsummer.

Completed: ALL 6/5 as of 19 June 2009 (see my wrap-up post here)

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Sleeping Beauty and Other Stories
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Ombria in Shadow by Patricia McKillip

Plus: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare