A TO Z CHALLENGE -- GEARING UP BEFORE APRIL

It's that time again!  It's time to finish off my posts for the A to Z Challenge.  I have the first week scheduled to post already.

Since the opening of the linky list two or three days ago, there have been over 300 entries already signed up.  Impressive much.

I'm not going to reveal my theme yet. I will probably do the theme reveal (if I can find it).  If not, I will reveal closer to the start.

The Challenge is dedicated to Tina Downey.

Here is the calender for this year's event:

BOOK CHALLENGE 2015 #4 -- A BANNED BOOK

The Giver

The Giver ranks as one of the most challenged books since its publication and has made the ALA's  two Top 100 Banned Books decade lists.  It was 11th on the 1990-1999 list and 23rd on the 2000-2009 list.

With the movie out, I wonder if it will make the 2010-2019 list.

It's about a boy named Jonas who learns that his world isn't what it seems and that it had lost much of what makes humans human.

BOOK CHALLENGE 2015 #3 -- A BOOK FROM AN AUTHOR YOU LOVE THAT YOU HAVEN'T READ YET

Snow Kisses

Okay, I admit I really like her books.  There are more hits than misses with this author for me, which is a miracle.  

The two novels in this book are Snow Kisses and Lionhearted.  I've read Lionhearted before but Snow Kisses was new.  They are reprints of some of her older works.  I love reprints because I can read older works without having to scrounge for them.  

Abby and Cade are at odds with each other.  She left for New York at eighteen after he rejected her.  Four years have passed, yet they haven't figured out how to tell each other about their feelings and the misunderstanding it caused in the past and present.  All the drama and angst is there as they fumble around trying figure out what each other wants instead of just talking.  

Gotta love romance novels.  

BOOK CHALLENGE 2015 #1 AND #2 -- GRAPHIC NOVEL AND COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES

MeruPuri: Märchen Prince by Matsuri Hino

Meru Puri is a fun little quartet of manga.  It's about a normal girl, obsessed with a romantinc TV show, that finds out that love is more than what her naive plans think.  

Airi Hoshino meets Aram when he magically appears through a mirror.  She doesn't know that her life will soon be entangled in his.

Aram is on the run from his older brother who tried to curse him.  He seeks refuge from his world in Airi's home.  

It's one misadventure after another as Airi and Aram trek through a mire of court intrigue, their feelings, and a host of slightly psychotic characters.  

This is a collections of short stories by Patricia Wrede the author of many wonderful tales.  It has a couple of short stories that go along with the Enchanted Forest Chronicles.  It also has a great chocolate cake recipe that has hilarious instructions.  I mean how can you go wrong with a name like Quick After-the-Battle Triple Chocolate Cake.  

There are also other diverse tales like one that is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty and an urban fantasy one that has the girl trying to choose her own destiny. 

A READING CHALLENGE

I found this reading challenge on a blog.  Don't ask me where because I couldn't tell you if I tried. *Edit:  POPSUGAR

Anywho, I'm going to try to accomplish it.

What is really awesome is that I ticked one off without even trying.  It was to read a graphic novel.  Oops!  I was reading MeruPuri: Märchen Prince by Matsuri Hino (aka Vampire Knight author).

So I will try to post about my accomplishments in this challenge.

You can see the entire list on my 2015 Reading Challenge page in which I will have pretty covers of the books I have chosen.  The order of them will change as I tick off each one.