A couple days late, but here they are! Following are reviews written by Mythopoeic Award Challenge participants from April 1st to April 30th.

NOTE: If you are a participant and would like me to link to your review, please make sure to link the review from your book list, or tag it “mythopoeic award challenge” or similar if you have tagging capabilities. Alternately, you can post a link to it in the comments of any post on my blog. This will make it easier for me to find your review. Thank you!

These reviews may contain plot spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Becky reviews Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt, and Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.

Darla reviews Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman and The Amulet of Samarkand.

Joanna reviews The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

Kim reviews Sunshine by Robin McKinley.

Megan reviews The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle.

Meiran reviews Tithe and Valiant by Holly Black.

Nymeth reviews The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen.

Rhinoa reviews Briar Rose by Jane Yolen.

Susan reviews Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

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If I missed your review, let me know in the comments and I’ll add it!

It’s that time again! Following are reviews written by Mythopoeic Award Challenge participants from March 1st to March 31st.

NOTE: If you are a participant and would like me to link to your review, please make sure to link the review from your book list, or tag it “mythopoeic award challenge” or similar if you have tagging capabilities. Alternately, you can post a link to it in the comments of any post on my blog. This will make it easier for me to find your review. Thank you!

These reviews may contain plot spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Annie reviewed The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale.

Claire reviewed The Line Between by Peter S. Beagle.

Darla reviewed A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett and Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde.

Esther reviewed Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip, The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale, and Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt.

Orchidus reviewed The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Kim reviewed The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.

Mandy reviewed Ombria in Shadow by Patricia A. McKillip.

Nymeth reviewed Little, Big by John Crowley.

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If I missed your review, let me know in the comments and I’ll add it!

From now on, at the end of each month I’ll post reviews written by participants in the Mythopoeic Award Challenge during that month. This time, I’m posting reviews from January 17th to February 29th, because I missed a few in January.

Some of these reviews contain major spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Annie reviewed Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson and The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Book Calendar reviewed Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip, The Wood Wife by Terri Windling, Sunshine by Robin McKinley and Briar Rose by Jane Yolen.

Claire reviewed The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.

Darla reviewed Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s Spirits That Walk in Shadow.

domynoe reviewed Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.

Esther reviewed Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip.

Eva reviewed Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

Orchidus reviewed The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Joanna reviewed Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.

Kim reviewed Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

Megan reviewed The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue.

Meiran reviewed Sunshine by Robin McKinley.

Nicole B. reviewed Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.

Nymeth reviewed Summerland by Michael Chabon.

Rhinoa reviewed Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman and Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Susan reviewed The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley.

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As of yet, I haven’t read anything for my own challenge! Research has stopped my fiction reading in its tracks, and I am Slogging (with a capital “S”) through the non-fiction because I’m just not in the mood for Music of the Baroque and such right now.

The Mythopoeic Award Challenge has been mentioned on the Mythopoeic Society’s Livejournal Community, and I am incredibly stoked! Welcome to anyone from the Society. Soon I shall be one of you, if I have my way.

This is a great opportunity to point out that there are now 30 participants in the challenge! I remember saying to Hoshichan before the turn of the new year, “If there are ten participants I’ll be happy.” So thanks to everyone who is taking the challenge; you have multiplied my happiness by three (and the year is still young).

My plan is to link to everyone’s reviews in a post at the end of each month, so keep an eye out for that. I’m looking forward to seeing what you all think of what you’re reading!

Now I will take my elderberry tea and Orphans of Chaos into the bedroom, where I will sit on the new bed until I’m sure it’s safe. It’s a wall-bed you see, and I’m not quite convinced it won’t eat me.

Some readers taking the Mythopoeic Award Challenge have written reviews for books on their lists:

Annie has reviewed Tithe by Holly Black.

Gautami has reviewed Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.

Giselle has reviewed Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones and Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card.

Nymeth has reviewed Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner.

Rhinoa has reviewed Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.

I’ll definitely be adding some of these to my wishlist (I’m especially interested in Thomas the Rhymer.) If you’ve written a review for the Mythopoeic Award Challenge and I’ve missed it, point me to it in the comments!

Here’s my own list for the Mythopoeic Award Challenge (which I’m running here at Foxy Writer!)

1. Red Moon and Black Mountain by Joy Chant.
2. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
3. Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop.
4. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke.
5. Solstice Wood by Patricia A McKillip.
6. Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl.
7. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke.

Unicorn Mountain sounded strange, and I like strange, so I figure that’s my total shot in the dark for this challenge. Although, I guess the same could be said for Owl in Love.

[EDIT: I've made some adjustments in the list since including the nominees list as part of the challenge. I'll still be reading A Midsummer Tempest, but since it's on my list for What's In A Name?, I swapped it out here with Inkheart, currently sitting on my shelf, loaned to me by one of my nieces possibly more than a year ago. I also have too much non-fiction waiting to be read here, so I swapped The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion with The Ladies of Grace Adieu.]

In celebration of my new domain, I issue a challenge!

The Mythopoeic Society is dedicated to the study and enjoyment of fantasy and mythic literature, especially the works of the Inklings, an informal literary circle at Oxford that included the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and others. Each year the Society awards the best scholarly and literary achievements exemplifying “the spirit of the Inklings” with the Mythopoeic Award.

The challenge is to read seven books between JANUARY 1ST 2008 to DECEMBER 31ST 2008 from the list of Mythopoeic Award Winners. (See? All kinds of brilliant Fantasy books to choose from!) [EDIT: Becky requested that I broaden the challenge to include the nominees for the fantasy and scholarship, which gives you a lot more choices!]

Here are the rules:

1. Choose seven books from the list of Mythopoeic Award Winners (or nominees, here for fantasy or here for scholarship).
2. Anything on the list is fair game, fiction or non-fiction.
3. Post a link to your list in the comments of this post (if you don’t have a website, post your list in the comments.)
4. Somewhere in your post, link back to this challenge post. (permalink)
5. Read the books between January 1st, 2008 and December 31st, 2008.
6. You may start anytime in 2008, but you must finish by the end of December 31st, 2008.
7. You may combine this challenge with other challenges.

Here are some banners and buttons to link back with. (Please upload these images to your own webspace. DO NOT DIRECT LINK, PLEASE.)

Link to http://foxywriter.com/2007/12/27/mythopoeic-award-challenge/

If you have any questions, please post them in the comments. Otherwise, join up and have fun!

(Note: I am not affiliated with the Mythopoeic Society in any way, and this challenge is not sanctioned by them. I’m just spreading love for the Mythopoeic Award Winners!)