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October Book Wrap Up

We've reached the end of October 😢 I've enjoyed this month so much focusing largely on horror books. I've grown quite fond of the horror genre and I'll be sure to read more before 2022 ends. It's been great adding more magic into my life through dark academia which I realized infuses a lot of magical realism, science-fiction, and fantasy. somehow also found the first book to ever offend me so much I wanted to tear it into pieces.

Total books read: 21 books 📚 Just 3 shy of my dream goal but I met my minimum. Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King took me out of commission for a few days. It was incredibly long and while I enjoyed it immensely it drained so much of me so I recommend never starting a book month with one of King's unless it's all you plan on only reading that month.

Favorite books: Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Mayberry. Perfect amount of lovable characters combined with characters I hate, creepy, good dash of humor, easy-to-follow plot despite multiple characters and events happening, and great twists! It's considered horror but at least for the book in the series (can't wait to read the other two) this reads more like a thriller to me.

The Book Theif is a genuine masterpiece and that's all I need to say.

Perish by LaToya Watkins is a hard, traumatic read but it's so so worth the read. My review is here

Book I expected to love more but didn't: The Picture of Dorian Grey. Don't get me wrong; it's a wonderful book. I rated it a 4.25. Considering how much praise it receives I was expecting to be obsessed and in love but instead, I put it down and said, "good, but I don't think I'd pick it up again." Glad to have it off my list.

My least favorite book: Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match. I have never hated a book as much as I did but this one set me on edge and I had to put it down and skim it because it just kept getting worse and worse. Here's my lovely review.

Favorite Horror book: Kill Creek by Scott Thomas. I was absolutely enamored with all the authors and how well-written each character was. Ending was a perfect twist that I loved and I loved how Thomas explored the different avenues of horror through each character.

Reading Challenges:

The Horror Aficionados group on Goodreads is hosting a challenge to read horror stories that meet the following listed topics:

Bat 🦇 Cat 🐱‍👤 Haunting 👻 Hell House by Richard Matheson ⭐⭐⭐✨(3.75) Graveyard ☠ The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ⭐⭐⭐⭐(4.25) Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin 🎃 Halloween Horrors: 12 Tales of Terror by Blair Daniels, John Beardify, and others ⭐⭐⭐✨ (3.8) Monster 👹 Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.9) Scarecrow 😱 Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Mayberry ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5) Treats 🍬🍭 Tricks 😈 Kill Creek by Scott Thomas ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.5) Vampire 🧛‍♂️Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ⭐⭐⭐✨ (3.5) Werewolf🐩 Werewolf by Ed Warren (⭐⭐⭐✨ 3.5) Witch 🧙‍♀️🧹 Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.1) Zombie 🧟‍♀️

I didn't finish the challenge but I did manage to make a huge dent and should def meet the November 30th deadline.

Popsugar Reading Challenge: I told myself I would read these prompts to keep me on track to finish the challenge but I didn't finish two of them but I did manage to stil accomplish two other prompts so still on track

A book about or set in a nonpatriarchial society Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.9)

A book with cuterly in the cover or in the title: Did not do

A book about witches Took: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.1)

A book set on a train, plane, or cruise ship: Did not Do

An #ownvoicesSFF bok: The Picture of Dorian Gray ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨ (4.25)

A book featuring a parallel reality Sleeping Beauties

A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid Howl's, Moving Castle ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨(4.5)

Prompts I did instead:

A book with an onomatopoeia in its title: Howl's Moving Castle

A book about someone leading a double life: Abraha Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

A Hugo Award Winner: The Graveyard Book

I'm super on track; enough so that I can even look to reading alternate titles for past prompts where I've used a book to fill at least two prompts

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I was hoping I'll be able to do some dictating today, but it seems it's another "do absolutely nothing" day today, because unfortunately, I feel like I'm having a repeat from last weekend.

My head feels super weird and my ears even weirder, I definitely have some sound sensitivity issues, as opposed to light sensitivity last week. So I'm just gonna relax and unwind today, maybe read, maybe do some very light rewrites if my brain feels up to it, maybe I will be able to play some Skyrim with volume on very low through my speakers, that seems to be okay on my ears - but hoooo boy was it an agony when I was getting dinner, the sound of all the cuterly clinking and all, ughhh, the worst. It's aggravating for me on a normal day, but now it was just agonizing.

Hopefully if I take it easy today, I won't have a repeat of last sunday. That would be the worst.

Hope y'all are having a great day/night out there, have a lovely weekend <3

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October 2022 Book Goals

October🍂 , One of my favorite months of the year and it's time for a spooky 👻 book month theme. All month long I'm going to largely devote myself to reading dark academia, sci-fi, horror, thriller, mystery, magic, or Halloween-related books. My exceptions are books that I've had on hold at my library that come through.

Book goal: 12 books 📖

Dream goal: 24 books 📚

Book Challenges

The Horror Aficionados group on Goodreads is hosting a challenge to read horror stories that meet the following listed topics:

Bat 🦇 Cat 🐱‍👤 Ghost/Haunting 👻 Graveyard ☠ Jack-o'-lantern/Pumpkin 🎃 Monster 👹 Scarecrow 😱 Treats 🍬🍭 Tricks 😈 Vampire 🧛‍♂️ Werewolf🐩 Witch 🧙‍♀️🧹 Zombie 🧟‍♀️

I have until November 30th to complete the challenge but I hope I can either finish the challenge by the end of the month or make a major dent into it. Also, I have 17 books left to read for the PopSugar 2022 challenge and there are 7 prompts I need to fulfill to keep me on track so I've chosen:

A book about or set in a nonpatriarchial society

A book with cuterly in the cover or in the title

A book about witches

A book set on a train, plane, or cruise ship

An #ownvoicesSFF bok

A book featuring a parallel reality

A book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid

I have zero clue what I'm reading for most of my book challenges but here are some books I know for sure I'll be reading this month:

Most anticipated: It's a tie between Sleeping Beauties and PenPal. I've actually never read a Stephen King book and so I decided to start with this one as my first and so far I really like it but it's kind of hard to follow with the number of characters. I've heard amazing things about PenPal and that it's extremely disturbing which I am ready for! I actually rarely read scary books aside from psychological thrillers but those rarely freak me out so honestly this entire genre will be new for me.

Book I already know I'm going to love: The Book Thief. I know very little but a long time ago I read the first chapter and I was hooked but life got in the way. I just have a strong feeling about this one since everyone I know recommends it to me.

Nostalgic selection for October:

FEAR STREET SAGA!!!

R.L. Stine was my favorite author as a teenager. He's the only horror author I ever went out of my way to read and I was obsessed with Fear Street. I read the cheerleader saga once a year and I'm excited to read the rest because it's been so long that I don't even remember most of them. I do know they're not long reads so we'll see how many of these I can bang out. They're largely why my dream goal is so high.

I'm so excited for this month and to see how I fill this out in the end. I had most of September planned out but since I'm new to the horror genre, don't really read a lot of sci-fi or magic books, and dark academia is new to me I'm eager to see how I take to this challenge 😁🎃