All right #BlackCatCrew this is how to get some points before #HauntedShelf officially starts on October 1st.
25pts for your October TBR. The number of books realistic or insane is up to you.
25pts for a book recommendation. Post a book you think would be fantastic for Fall.
10pts share the sign-up link.
Please remember to tag me. You are responsible for keeping up with your own points, but I love seeing your posts 🐈‍⬛
@PuddleJumper

Hello #BlackCatCrew I will be your team leader for this year's #HauntedShelf As your team leader you will need to tag me for all your posts and I will be keeping you up on all the games, word searches, bingo boards, readathons, and everything else #HauntedShelf related. Soon I will be posting details on prepoints and rules 🐈‍⬛
@PuddleJumper

Here is my first group of #FCS cards. Thank you @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @dabbe @TheLudicReader @WildAlaskaBibliophile @ShelleyBooksie @BarkingMadRead & @Cuilin 🧡🍂🧡

Anything else y'all want to discuss? This first half was nuts, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The end of the book discussion will be on the 30th. Thanks for reading along with me 🦇
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong
@BethM @AmyG @TheBookHippie @Deblovestoread @kelli7990 @AllDebooks @Jjaxn95 @peaKnit

I'm torn on how much more screwed up he could have been to get kicked out of Black Sabbath than the rest of the band and I think his going solo was the best thing for him.
Question 5: Do you think it was fair that he got kicked out? What about his name change suggestion of Black Sabbath II? And which do you prefer Black Sabbath or Ozzy solo? My favorite is his solo work 🖤
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong

Oh, the chaos! I can't imagine having to grow up with Ozzy like this. Some of the things he did were truly horrendous, which he admits to, but giving the Vicar hash was funny.
Question 4: This was not the Ozzy we typically associate with. What surprised/bothered you the most?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong

Ozzy wanted to start a band because of his love for the Beatles. Their earlier band Earth was a blues band but they are credited as the fathers of heavy metal.
Question 3: Do you think all rock/metal comes from the blues? What would Black Sabbath be without the scary music?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong

This broke my heart when I read it. I wonder how many others have gone undiagnosed. I feel like today ADHD is probably overdiagnosed but what about back then and how many parents & teachers miss dyslexia?
Question 2: Are things getting better? Or are students still getting misdiagnosed or ignored? And how do you think Ozzy handled learning lyrics?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong

And as it turns out his father was right on both accounts. Ozzy had a rough start he went to prison for burglary but then became a legend.
Question 1: Do you think he learned his lesson or that he just learned that he hated prison? He didn't exactly stick to the straight and narrow. What do you think his father would have thought about his legacy?
#PrinceOfDarknessReadalong

#ModernWitchSwap matches have been sent 🐈‍⬛
@BarkingMadRead @kadagul @Deblovestoread @PaperbackPirate @TheBookHippie @wildwoodreads @Captivatedbybooks @Readergrrl @bookish_wookish @bumpinthenight @MaleficentBookDragon @forestandcrow @Aconight @WildAlaskaBibliophile @Chrissyreadit @KT1432 @TEArificbooks

My #FFFS swap package came in today. Druzy is keeping an eye on it until opening day 😸 Thank you @avanders
#FallingForFallSwap @Chrissyreadit

I loved this book. I seen the movie a number of times and I feel like the book fills in a lot that the movie misses.
So Newton comes to this planet with the idea of making enough money to bring the rest of his people here. But his plan unravels and despair sets in.
#ReadYourKindle @CBee
#WickedWords #record @asyouwish
#DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks

I enjoyed this cozy. The premise was fantastic. A mystery-themed book festival in a small town. Which sounds fantastic until a dead body is found in a hidden room in the local bookstore 📚

I loved this book. Salem's sister supposedly committed suicide at her college but Salem doesn't believe so she enrolls to investigate. There she meets Cass, a man with his own dark past and someone she can't stay away from 💙
#WickedWords #mask @AsYouWish
#Pantone2025 #Fanfare @Lauredhel

Two more days to sign up for the #ModernWitchSwap
It closes tomorrow night. I match everyone within their own country and I have only one Canadian that signed up. Anyone else interested? Everyone is welcome.
Matches go out on the 13th or sooner and Opening day is Halloween 🐈‍⬛
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_sIuy9B_YU3WcypYSzsdOO0D1-eNFNr8bWDiK...

@Kshakal I mailed your last #CBBC package for this round ☕️
And I mailed the #FFFS package 🍂
#CoffeeBeanBookClub @Mommamanzi
#FallingForFallSwap @Avanders @Chrissyreadit

@CSeydel my #AutumnComfortSwap package is here. Thank you and now to hide it 🍂
@thebacklistbook

Here are my choices for #ReadOrDonate
@julieclair

Here is my tbr for #BookSpinBingo
@TheAromaofBooks

Today starts our #PrinceOfDarknessReadalong #PODR I'll check in on the 15th for the first half 'In the beginning.' On the 30th will be our final discussion.
Everyone is welcome to join in. Read at your own pace and join in when you can 🖤🦇🖤

In August we visited Kashyyyk with Reath. I love it. What did y'all think?
Now in September we head to Aricho with Imri. I love these middle-grade books.
As always if anyone wants to be added or removed just let me know. And May the Force Be With You Always 🚀
#StarWarsBuddyRead

My favorite book this month was The Horned God of the Witches and it also beat out Wild Dark Shore for the next bracket 💙
#BookBracket2025 @Catsandbooks

I read six books in August. My favorites were The Horned God of the Witches and The Library At Hellebore.
My #BookSpin pick was Enigma which I'm still reading and my #DoubleSpin and #ReadOrDonate pick was The Starving Saints which was just to weird so I'm dnfing and donating.
@TheAromaofBooks @julieclair

I loved this book and completely recommend it. It seems that a lot of witches or just me tend to ignore the Gods in favor of the Goddesses. This book discusses the Gods like Pan and Cernunnos, those that fit the Horned archetype. It's very informative and well written.
I listened to the audiobook which was also good for pronunciations 💙
#Pantone2025 #lyonsblue @Lauredhel

When I was a kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs, so I really enjoyed this book. It tells what happened when the asteroid hit Hell Creek to end the dinosaurs known as the K-PG event. Then follows as mammals become the more dominant species 🦕
#Naturalitsy @AllDebooks
#WickedWords #pool @AsYouWish

In all of the High Republic books this one is the most hopeful. Reath Silas leads an expedition to Kashyyyk to stall the Blight. Unfortunately, the drengir also show up and the wookies have their own secrets 💚
#StarWarsBuddyRead
#Pantone2025 #saltedlime @Lauredhel
#WickedWords #fish @AsYouWish

#HauntedShelf will be back this year, hosted by @PuddleJumper
Here is the sign up link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfs7yHyeyWN9K9pSE-dbPvoNTyyJ9RJVSoKDzbd...
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Calling all witches and the witchy inclined the form for the #ModernWitchSwap is up.
Everyone is welcome to participate and Litsy Swap Rules apply.
Sign-ups are open until the 9th, matches will go out by Sept. 13th, packages are to be shipped no later than Oct. 20th and opening day is Oct. 31st 🐈‍⬛

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_sIuy9B_YU3WcypYSzsdOO0D1-eNFNr8bWDiK...

The #ModernWitchSwap is back for its 3rd year. I will set up the sign up form this weekend. Sign ups will run until September 9th and matches will be sent out by the 13th. Packages need to be mailed by October 20th.
Samhain or Halloween for the muggles is the opening date. All are welcome to join in 🐈‍⬛
Also this picture is from the movie The Love Witch. I highly recommend watching it🖤
@LitsyEvents

This was a modern retelling of the myth of Hades and Persephone. It was good, a little more kinky than I prefer. In modern day Olympus, Zeus is a 🤬 and Persephone is engaged to him, by her Mother's manipulations. So she runs off and ends up needing to be rescued by Hades 🔥

This book was insane but I loved it. It was kind of a monster version of Hunger Games. So the apocalypse has happened, and all the people (mostly kids) have these monsterous, world ending, anti-christ type powers. That includes Alessa, who, on her graduation day, barely escapes being eaten only to end up with seven other classmates and an edict that only one can live 👹
#Pantone2025 #crownblue @Lauredhel

I enjoyed this book, but it was gritty and intense. Roman goes back home when he hears that his father is in a coma. There, he gets mixed up in crime thanks to his brother while his sister is still trying to solve the mystery of their Mother's disappearance 🔥
#CampLitsy25 @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

@Kshakal I mailed your #CBBC package today.
I also mailed the #AutumnComfortSwap package 📦
@Mommamanzi #CoffeeBeanBookClub
@thebacklistbook

Starting September 1st I am hosting the #PrinceOfDarknessReadalong The plan is to start in September with I Am Ozzy, October with Trust Me, I'm Doctor Ozzy and in November read Last Rites.
All are welcome to join in 🦇

Thank you @Pageturner1 I received my #CBBC package today. The pretzels look fantastic 🧡
@Kshakal I will be mailing your next book this weekend.
#CoffeeBeanBookClub @Mommamanzi

I love this song, and I'm broken hearted that Ozzy's dead 🖤 💔 🖤
Would anyone be interested in an Ozzy buddy read? I know he did I am Ozzy and Trust Me, I'm Doctor Ozzy and Last Rites comes out in October.
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

Here is my tbr for August, which I am also using for #BookSpin and #ReadOrDonate 🌞
@TheAromaofBooks @julieclair

For July, we read The Tempest Breaker. I'm still reading it. How did y'all like it?
In August, our book is Into The Light. It's time to enjoy some teenage Jedi drama.
As always, if anyone wants to be added or removed, just let me know. And May the Force Be With You Always 🚀
#StarWarsBuddyRead

My favorite book for July was When The Wolf Comes Home, but the current bracket winner is The Shining 🖤
#BookBracket2025 @Catsandbooks

In July I read 10 books. My favorites were Death of the Author, Love At Second Sight, Weave the Liminal, and When the Wolf Comes Home 🐺

I loved the twists in this book. It's a good mix of Firestarter and Lathe of Heaven.
Jess is having a bad night at her work, but when she gets home, she finds a scared little boy, and there is a werewolf after them 🐺
#WickedWords #rooftop @AsYouWish

In this book Laura Tempest Zakroff discusses her path and how to weave old traditions with modern witchcraft. I loved it 🦉
#Pantone2025 #magicalforest @Lauredhel

I love these novels. In this one, the First Doctor meets the Twelveth Doctor, a lost WWI captain and a mysterious Glass Woman. Both of the Doctors are struggling with regeneration, and the best part is that we finally get to find out what happened to Bill after she was rescued from the cybermen 💙

This was a weird book, and it had a rather oppressive feel to it.
Cassie breaks up with her girlfriend, abandons her job, and heads back to her father's house. There, she runs into her high school best friend, Eli. He is recently widowed and very quickly. They catch up. He ends up married, and she ends up in big trouble
#Pantone2025 #winterberry #wispyclouds @Lauredhel

I loved this book. Lukens is an autobuy author for me.
Cam has a best friend, Al, who is a witch and a crush on a werewolf named Mateo. He thinks that he is a normal human until one day at school, he has a vision of a murder. Now him and his friends are trying to stop it, while the supernatural community tries to get Cam to join with them, and he is busy hiding his new powers from his parents.

This is a rather boring book. It's about Barton Dawes a man whose house is about to be turned into a highway. He doesn't handle it well, infact he goes nuts 🚧
#LosersClub @BarkingMadRead #Pantone2025 #bronzemist @Lauredhel

I enjoyed this one, even though it was really long.
Amy Dorrit is born in a debtors prison. There she spends her time taking care of her delusional father and trying to wrangle her siblings. And then her fortune changes 🩶
#Whatthedickens @Cuilin @Texreader
#WickedWords #England @AsYouWish
#Pantone2025 #darkgullgray #brightwhite @Lauredhel

This is a rather boring retelling of Carmilla. The ending was good though.
#WickedWords #candlestick @AsYouWish
#Pantone2025 #cumulouscloud #vaporblue

I loved this book and gave it 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
On the outside, this book is about a paraplegic author writing her first big novel while dealing with her family and herself, and then there are the robots 🤖
#CampLitsy @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB #WickedWords #family @AsYouWish #Pantone2025 #poppyred #Pantone2025 #PoppySeed #FrenchToast

This is one of the legends stories about Obi-Wan coming to live on Tatooine.
I loved it. Obi-Wan is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters 🧡
#StarWarsBuddyRead #WickedWords #Villian @AsYouWish #Pantone2025 #lemongrass #brandiedmelon #chillioil #deserts @Lauredhel