How very appropriate.  Okay, maybe it’s not quite April but Spring is upon us and the sentiment remains.  Once Upon A Time is here again!  Dust off your fairy wings, throw open your hobbit holes and sprinkle a little magic into your reading.

Every year at this time Stainless Steel Droppings hosts his Once Upon a Time challenge.  Now, don’t be put off by the word challenge, this event is all about the fun and the word really remains in there purely on a historical basis (yes, historical because this event is well old – 8 years – and is enormously popular!).  What makes this event so very excellent – well, it focuses on my main book loves: Fairy Tale, Folklore, Fantasy and Mythology!  How could you resist such sweet charms?  More to the point – how can you resist coming up with any number of twisted explanations as to how you snuck that Grimdark in amongst your reads (hey, it’s fantasy, right?)?

I’ve been saving my precioussss books just for this.  I has plenty stashed to one side – but, you don’t have to read plenty – one only!  One book – come on – I challenge you to read that one book and enter this event.  I double dare you.  Last one to enter is a rotten egg!

‘The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things / Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings / And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings / Calloo, Callay, come run away / With the cabbages and kings.’  (Lewis Carroll – you’ve got to love him – have you read his Cheshire Cat song – okay, maybe he wasn’t on drugs when he wrote it but methinks he must have eaten a few mushroom pies!)

Come join the fun.