Additional & Optional April Challenge 2012

[Angie]

I am after your ideas for an additional and optional April challenge.
Darkpool suggested the theme be around the number one or anniversaries, as Book Loving Kiwis turns one in April. A super idea.
It is also 100 years in April since the sinking of the Titanic, so I think this would tie in nicely with the anniversary idea. Or maybe, books set at sea could be an idea?
Put your thinking hats on... Don't be shy... Have fun...

[Sharlene]

It is also Easter :)

[Angie]

So true. I always seem to miss the BIG things!

[Angie]

I'm going to make the theme quite broad for April...

Festivals-Celebrations-Anniversaries

Your task? To select a book that relates in any way to the above theme.
What will you be reading?

[Angie]

I'm going for The Language of Flowers.
We give flowers to celebrate many occasions in life, so that is how my choice of book relates to the theme.

[Darkpool]

Still trying to work out what I'll read. Maybe something about the Easter Rising in Ireland. Or perhaps a piece of fluff if I can find something appropriate. I feel the need for fluff right now.

[Darkpool]

Ok, said I was after some fluff... can't get much fluffier than Wedding of the Season. Unless perhaps it was a book about angora rabbits.

[Jo]

Going with the Titanic anniversary, has anyone read this one?:Every Man for Himself
Bainbridge is a great writer. (The Birthday Boys is my favourite of hers)

Definitely no fluff in either of those, though!

[Angie]

Jo wrote: "Going with the Titanic anniversary, has anyone read this one?:Every Man for Himself
Bainbridge is a great writer. (The Birthday Boys is my favourite of hers)

Definit..."

I haven't read either of those. Have added The Birthday Boys to my TBR list. I find anything to do with the early Antarctic explorers really fascinating.

[Darkpool]

Finished Wedding of the Season which was every bit as fluffy as imagined, with a bit of bonus smut thrown in for good measure. After a bad start I warmed to the characters, so ended up enjoying it more than I anticipated initially. Yet again tho I have an issue with the cover: For a book set in 1902(ish, can't exactly remember) that very modern looking bride is totally wrong, and annoyed me every time I looked at it.

[Angie]

I finished The Language of Flowers yesterday. I'm so glad I stumbled upon this wee gem.
Here is my review,

Loved it, loved it, loved it! I read a lot of books, but there are very few that I feel the need to recommend to others. This one, however, has me shouting from the hill on which I live, "Drop what you're reading and read The Language of Flowers now!"
It was beautiful. It was jam-packed with human emotions and feelings. I will never look at a flower in quite the same way again. My favourite book of the year so far (and this was Book 34).
I'm going to loan this book to family and friends, and then I'm going to find it a wee space on my bookshelf where I can leave it until I'm ready to read it again.