Day 29 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Trick. This is another book that I won't be reading until next year. It's the 6th book in the Essex Witch Museum Mystery series. I'll be reading the 5th book, The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas, in December. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 28 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Nightmare. I don't know what happened to my copy, but this is my favorite short story collection of King's. I read it while I was in high school, and I can still remember several of the stories in vivid detail. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickThis was my 3rd time reading The Halloween Tree, This time, I listened to the audiobook, and greatly enjoyed the narration. 70 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 27 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Legend. There's a legend about Rotter House, but I won't find out what it is until next year because I probably won't finish my current read before Halloween. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 26 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Cat. I read this last year. While it's definitely not the scariest King has written, not by a long shot, it was disturbing. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 25 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Fall/Autumn. I have this on my Kindle, and the problem with ebooks is that they're easy to forget I have them. I already started another book after finishing The Mist, otherwise, I would start this one. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickI stayed up past my bedtime to finish this last night. It's definitely the type of story that made King the King of Horror. I earned 75 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
panAnother book finished for #Scarthlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall. I'm glad I only paid $1 for this audiobook on Chirp. Sometimes you get what you pay for. It took over 50% of the story to finally get to the murder and the MC was a bit of an idiot throughout the whole thing. I will not be continuing on to book 2. At least I got 115 points for following all the way to the end.
Day 24 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Kill. From the blurb on the back: “Could a novel really lead someone to kill?“ The book is based on an actual murder in London, in 1840, which caused a widespread debate about popular novels. I'm not usually into True Crime, but Dickens is one of my all-time favorite authors. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 23 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Spider. I'm not a fan of spiders and the only Horror book that I remember having a spider in it, mentioning that would be a spoiler. I don't know if there are any spiders in this short story collection, but a spider on the spine is enough for me *shiver* #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 22 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Fear/Scare. I read IT during the Summer of 1993 and no other book has ever scared me as much. I laughed and laughed through the first movie adaptation and I haven't watched the newer one because I'm afraid that cinematography might finally be good enough to bring this book to life. I don't need those nightmares again! #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I started my 4th book of the #readathon and read for an hour before calling it quits for the night.
pickThis read like a horror flick all the way through and I couldn't put it down until I was done! Fast-paced vivid imagery and no boring lulls or unnecessary scenes made this the perfect book for #readathon. 70 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickGruesome, intelligent, and macabre! Think “Penny Dreadful“ Steer clear of this if you don't like graphic violence. Book 2 for #readathon and 65 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickBook 1 for Dewey's 24-Hour #Readathon. Oddly enough, I didn't enjoy this one as much as The Rules of Magic and The Book of Magic, though I don't know why. It was still good, and I'm glad I read it because now I can watch the movie. 135 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 21 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Vampire. The most iconic vampire of my generation. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickSchwab is one of my favorite authors and The Near Witch did not disappoint! I had a couple of strange and creepy dreams last night, but nothing overly scary. I've earned another 125 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 20 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Potion/Magic. The Scholomance series is all about magic. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 19 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Cemetery/Grave. I found this book several years ago in a random little thrift shop in Arizona. It's been sitting on my TBR shelves ever since because as much as I want to read it, it's a bit of a brick. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 18 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Zombie. I rarely read zombie books since I prefer to watch TV or movies. However, this is one of the best zombie books I've ever read. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 17 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Haunt. I love haunted house stories, and Darcy Coates tends to be very good at them. This is on my TBR for Dewey's 24-Hour #Readathon this weekend. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 16 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - October. This is a book I've read, and now my Boyfriend is reading it. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 15 #Scarthlon Photo Challenge - Purple. My favorite color, and while I haven't read this one yet, I've enjoyed everything else from Libba Bray. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pickAaron Mahnke's Lore podcast and books never disappoint! And I racked up another 135 points for #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
pick⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I love The Essex Witch Museum Mystery series. Just the right amount of creepy and cozy. I earned a total of 105 points for this one. #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 14 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Monster. I'm hoping to read this during Dewey's 24-Hour #Readathon next weekend. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I've only got two more activities to check off my #Scarathlon bucket list. I'm in the middle of the Walktober Virtual Race, and the #Readathon is next weekend! #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 13 #Scarthlon Photo Challenge - Moon. I lucked out in buying a book tonight with a moon on the cover! #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I've checked off another to-do from my #Scarathlon bucket list - The Green Lawn Cemetery tour. The author of the tagged book does the tour, and I bought an autographed copy, but that will be in my next photo challenge post. This is one of several photos I took during the tour. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 11 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Witch. I absolutely love this series, and the Fall feels like the perfect time to read it. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 10 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Orange. I considered saving this book for Halloween, but I have another book in mind for that day. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
so-soMy second full book finished for #Scarathlon and the fourth for #RIP. Though it was good, it wasn't good enough for me to continue the series. Total points = 90 for 7 hours of listening time plus 20 for being a spooky/autumn-themed book. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 9 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Dark #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 8 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Coffin. Strangely enough, I don't own any physical books with a title or cover involving a coffin. This is one of my ebooks, and even though it's specifically about cemeteries, cemeteries are full of coffins, so I figure it counts. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
Day 2 of the #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Skeleton/Bones. I chose Strange Tombs because of the skull on the cover and the title. It is also my next read after finishing Changes by Jim Butcher. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I finished Changes last night and checked off 7 words for the #Scarathlon Word Search: Blood, Killer, Vampire, Witch, Dark, Trick, and Party. I also read for 2 hours and 44 minutes. Total points = 90 #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I checked off 2 things from my bucket list for #Scarathlon yesterday - Going to a haunted house and eating Pumpkin Jo-Jo's. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I earned 10 points for #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall on the first day of #Scarathlon and checked off Spirit Halloween shopping from my bucket list. Unfortunately, it was slim pickings, but I did manage to get some spooky-looking lantern pathway markers for the front of the house. I'll just have to do my Halloween season shopping earlier next year.
Here is my #Scarathlon bucket list. There are so many events and other activities I want to do in October, but these are the must-dos! #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
These are a few of the shows and movies I want to watch (or have already started) for #RIP and #Scarathlon. I have several more on my watchlist, but these are at the top. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
This isn't my whole #TBR for #RIP and #Scarathlon but it is most of the physical books I'll be choosing from throughout October. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
I've never done this before on Litsy, but on my blog, I write a weekly post titled #DownTheTBRHole in which I go through my Want to Read shelf 5 books at a time and decide whether or not I want to keep them. I sprained my ankle and am stuck at home today, so I thought I would play around with PicCollage and see what I can come up with. You can see my reasons here: https://fortifiedbybooks.com/down-the-tbr-hole-122/
Humble Bundle has a Kobo ebooks bundle of most of the October Daye
and InCryptid series! For those of you who don't have Kobo (like me) you can download them to Adobe Digital Editions, which will turn them into EPUBs.
Supposedly you can then put them on your Kindle, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
www.humblebundle.com
