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Hi DL! good to meet you :)You ready for this creepy challenge?! Planned out your books for each week already?
As I understnad it, we can start reading for them now, provided we don't finish until 1 October! My witches line up includes one which I think will be aslow read, so I might start that now. The others I've picked are Pratchett, which I know will go fast.
I am struggling a bit with the Werewolf week - nothing pencilled in there at all yet :(
Howdy :)I'm just down for one a week, as especially the zombie one is going to be hard to fill (plus wheels will be happening and who knows what'll happen there. Oh wait, there are a few on this team that do, lol).
I've got my favourite King, The Talisman lined up for werewolves. It's been more than 20 years since I last read it, so here's hoping it holds up!
Hi team!!I picked out a few witchy books yesterday as contenders for week one . . . and that's as far as I made it into planning. I probably should start looking now at the rest of the weeks, especially because I get most of my books from the library and might have to contend with a hold list, but I am such a mood reader that I try not to plan books too much ahead of time.
I don't think I'll have too much trouble though aside from zombies. I can only think of one zombie book I have ever read! I mostly have only read romance the last few years and just started dabbling back into fantasy / supernatural / paranormal stuff recently, so I'm excited to re-broaden my horizons!
Hi fellow Hob Goblins! Excited for this challenge. I'm aiming for 2 books/week and have quite a few books picked out for each theme--I always have a hard time deciding what to read!If anyone is stuck and wants a fun read, I recommend A Night in the Lonesome October. It has a character that fits each theme--witches, vampires, werewolves, the undead/zombie. I read it every year since it's Halloween-y but not gruesome, just fun.
Zeejane, the 1001 Books challenge sounds so cool! I'm trying to read more outside of my comfort zone and read more classics.
@Beatrice - the rec was immediately added to my list. The Z author might be very sad-making, what with wheel requirements though. hate a wasted tricky letter book!
I'm on a mission to read the 1001 too, though I'm doing the combined list of all 4 editions, which is 1316 books. I'm currently at 261, so still have more than 1001 to go! lol.None of the books I have lined up for this challenge are on the list :D
I recently read Nine Princes in Amber by Zelazny. If it comes to it, I can continue the series for wheel, lol.
@Cat--Sorry, what is the 'wheel'? I hope you like the book whether its for the challenge or sometime in the future; it's a personal favorite :)
Someone recommended These Witches Don't Burn to me for this challenge and it has an I author … trying to figure out if I can squeeze it in between the few hours that the witches theme for this and the first day of Wheel overlap 😂(Guess I’ll just wait and see what my future team’s first word is so I know if I need to or not)
Hey, friends. The zombie category is absolutely the hardest to fill I think. Check Amazon for freebies if you can. I, fortunately, have an old Harlequin romance sitting around called Zombie Moon that fits the bill. I also claimed this book (It All Started) a while ago when it was free on Amazon because the author friended me a few years back.
Kaley wrote: "Someone recommended These Witches Don't Burn to me for this challenge and it has an I author … trying to figure out if I can squeeze it in between the few hours that the witches the..."It was a quick read, if that helps Kaley!
Hello everybody, hoping to read lots of spooky books this October!TBR ideas:
Oct 1-9 Witches
The Black Witch
The Bone Witch
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Blood Magic(Magia de Sangue)
The Coven
Born Wicked
The Ex Hex
Oct 10-16 Vampires
Ribbing and Runes
Empire of the Vampire
Certain Dark Things
Oct 17-23 Werewolves
Murder of Crows
Oct 24-31 Zombies
Boneshaker
I Am Legend and Other Stories(
Beatrice Longbottom wrote: "@Cat--Sorry, what is the 'wheel'? I hope you like the book whether its for the challenge or sometime in the future; it's a personal favorite :)"Wheel is a team challenge run on the NBRC group, which several of the players here are members of. It starts on 9th October. More info https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Looking forward to this! I haven't put my lists together but will do it soon. I have several Zombie recommendations if folks need them and I've read 2 recent books that were good that deal with witch trials, either as the topic or in the past. I need to find a good witch book fast to start with. I'd love recommendations and will check out the few listed above.
uh-oh! that's the start of a very dangerous slope Zeejane! you'll be like so many of us, following the various big name challenges around, unable to read an I book at the wrong time of year :)
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Donna wrote: "Cat, you are going to have her believing that we are all mindless challenge junkies... oh wait, maybe we are. Carry on!"Haha the books I read per month from February-July during Uno/Tower Teams versus the books I read per month in this last month, for example…. VASTLY different 🤪
I am excited to start. Can't wait till midnight here lol I have my first book sitting out, waiting to be read: Brownies and Broomsticks
It's funny how sometimes you end up reading two books at the same time that have serendipitous connections. I've got that right now, and the connections are also really helping me read them quicker.It's Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants and The Winter Witch, with the memoir ruminating on our need to connect at a personal level with the natural world, even seeing trees as entities not things which picks out Morgana's close connection with nature in a way that makes it more accessible to read. I tried to read the Winter Witch a while ago and couldn't get into it; this time, with Sweetgrass as a partner, I'm flying through it!
Good Morning, I'm almost finished with my book, The Ex Hex, how to you check the book in? You just write on the check in thread?
Leticia wrote: "Good Morning, I'm almost finished with my book, The Ex Hex, how to you check the book in? You just write on the check in thread?"Yeah - there's a set of information you need to post during check in, set out in the first post there.
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Leticia wrote: "Good Morning, I'm almost finished with my book, The Ex Hex, how to you check the book in? You just write on the check in thread?"How are you liking it? I picked it as my October book from Book of the Month so I'm hoping it's good! And hoping it gets here in time to read it for the witches week...
Checking in - it's been a wild couple of zoom conference days so I'm just coming up for air. Excited for some witches!
Kaley wrote: "How are you liking it? I picked it as my October book from Book of the Month so I'm hoping it's good!"It's a light second chance romance. I'm enjoying it so far. It has really a lot of romance though.
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I think I'm going to read A Great and Terrible Beauty. I need something that is dark academia as well and this fits. Anyone read it?
Hi all, I will be on vacation until Sunday. My first book will be a Nancy Warren book, which I will start when I get back home Sunday. Good luck everyone!
Kate wrote: "I think I'm going to read A Great and Terrible Beauty. I need something that is dark academia as well and this fits. Anyone read it?"I liked it, it has a very good story with important themes.
I started my witch book. I think I can get a second one in, but we will see. It is a busy week.
I'll finish The Witchcraft of Salem Village later today and I'll definitely have one more novel (if not more) finished by the end of the week. Happy October and happy reading, everyone!
I'm back from vacation, and I will start to read Purls and Potions by Nancy Warren tonight. October is my favorite month.
I'm almost done with my first book. Only a few chapters left to go :)
Starting my second today- Witches by Stacy Schiff (sorry on the app so no linking). It’s non-fiction about the Salem Witch trials.
Kate wrote: "Starting my second today- Witches by Stacy Schiff (sorry on the app so no linking). It’s non-fiction about the Salem Witch trials."that sounds interesting Kate. Schiff does narrative non-fiction typically, right? wearing the research light?
Yes, it’s definitely light on the research- although it’s still there. It’s more akin to Erik Larson (Devil in the White City, etc) than hard-hitting academic history.
Karen wrote: "I changed my book for the week. I am going to The Witching Hour by Anne Rice"I loved that series back in the day. Been meaning to re-read for a decade and a half or so, lol.
^^ The Witching Hour is super thick. We'll get major points with that! hahaI just checked in my first book. I'll start book 2 in the morning :)
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Challenge rules:
*Books must be over 100 pages
*No graphic novels, poetry or cookbooks allowed.
*Follow your own time zone. If you finish the book between the theme dates in your time zone, it counts.
*You must be able to justify how your book fits the theme. Example: If the theme is cats, then your book can have a cat on the cover, a cat in the book, can be all about cats, etc. If you can justify it, then it will work. Let's keep this easy.
Themes:
Oct 1-9 Witches
Oct 10-16 Vampires
Oct 17-23 Werewolves
Oct 24-31 Zombies
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