Hey hi, happy Easter Monday (if you celebrate) or just Monday (if you don’t)!

While going back through my blog archives for [secrets redacted 🤫], I found this tag I created for Bookending Spring two years ago and thought it might be fun and timely to revive. There are no small children in my life so I haven’t gone Easter egg hunting in a very long time; I kind of miss it.

(Somewhat obvious caveat, if you’ve read a few of my tag posts: I’m not allowed to reuse the same books from when I originally wrote and completed the tag. I also managed to fill all the prompts with only 5-star reads, plus a bonus challenge that you’ll probably guess as soon as you see the gallery of cover images.)

The Riddle

To kick off your quest, please go and find
A special book that makes your heart
Skip a beat — A book to (re)read soon,
A book you could read all afternoon.
Got one in mind? Good, let’s start!

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The Clues

1. Start with a book which could match the riddle above.
2. Find a book whose cover is the same color as #1.
   Bonus: Take a photo of the two together.
3. Find a book with about the same average Goodreads rating as #2.
4. Find a book that uses the same/a similar trope to #3.
   (If you haven’t read them both, you can guess from the synopses.)
5. Find a book with about the same number of pages as #4.
6. Find a book that was published in the same month as #5.
   Bonus: Find one published in the same month of the same year.
7. Find a book whose title starts with the last letter of #6’s title.  (Ignore “The” and “A” if you so choose.)
8. Find a book with a character who shares a name with a protagonist or author of #7.
9. Bonus Round: Pull a random book from your collection (digital or physical) and find at least one similarity it has to #8.

1. In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
   • cover color: white with blue details
2. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
   • Goodreads average rating: 3.76
3. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
   • trope: a family besieged by tragedy
4. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
   • page count: ~175 
5. The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
   • originally published: October
6. Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
   • last/first letter: L
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
   • protagonist: Margaret, called Meg (March/McCaffrey)
8. The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan
   • main character is a twin (Apollo & Artemis/Blue & Iris)
   • featuring absentee parents + found family
   • upper Middle Grade/lower Young Adult audience
9. After Iris by Natasha Farrant

• Do you celebrate Easter?
  • If yes, what traditions do you have?
  • If not, are there any Easter traditions you’re interested in?
• When was the last time (if ever) you participated in an Easter egg hunt or scavenger hunt?