Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks: October 2020

Sunday, October 25, 2020

BW43: 52 Books Bingo - Ghosts and Goblins

We approach All Hallows Eve where the veil between the living and the dead is thin and Ghosts and Goblins come out to play.

There are a wide variety of fantasy novels where goblins come out to play from historical fiction to futuristic to mythology. You'd generally think of goblins as evil creatures but they come in all shapes and sizes and I'm sure the last thing on your mind is romance, however some authors have taken the goblin mythology and written stories with goblins as romantic leads and heroes such as in Shona Husk's Shadowland Series.

Ghost stories abound from the real to the creepy to the spooky to the surreal to romance and ghostly detectives and cozy mysteries. And let's not forget Gargoyles!

Read a book with ghost in the title or picture on the cover.

Read a book with goblin in the title or picture on the cover.

Read a book with gargoyle in the title or picture on the cover.

Challenge yourself and spell out ghost, goblin, or gargoyle, one book per each letter in the title.

A few more links to close out our October Spooktacular reading month:

9 books to creep you out this Halloween season

2020 Halloween reads for Kids and Teens.

Goblins: Books for kids

11 Haunted Novels with Emotional Ghosts

Top 10 Unconventional Ghosts in Literature

Have fun following rabbit trails!

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

BW42: October by Paul Laurence Dunbar

October

Paul Laurence Dunbar

October is the treasurer of the year,

And all the months pay bounty to her store;

The fields and orchards still their tribute bear,

And fill her brimming coffers more and more.

But she, with youthful lavishness,

Spends all her wealth in gaudy dress,

And decks herself in garments bold

Of scarlet, purple, red, and gold.

She heedeth not how swift the hours fly,

But smiles and sings her happy life along;

She only sees above a shining sky;

She only hears the breezes' voice in song.

Her garments trail the woodlands through,

And gather pearls of early dew

That sparkle, till the roguish Sun

Creeps up and steals them every one.

But what cares she that jewels should be lost,

When all of Nature's bounteous wealth is hers?

Though princely fortunes may have been their cost,

Not one regret her calm demeanor stirs.

Whole-hearted, happy, careless, free,

She lives her life out joyously,

Nor cares when Frost stalks o'er her way

And turns her auburn locks to gray.

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

BW41: 41 things

And now for something completely different!

Welcome to all things forty one this week. People, places, things, dates that have something to do with 41.

Best Books to Read For Ages 41 – 60

41 Books Recommended by Mark Zuckerberg

Read a book about the 41st President: 41 A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush

Authors born in 1941

Read a book with 41 in the title or 41st book in the series

Best selling and popular books in 1941

President only for 32 days in 1841 - William Henry Harrison

President from 1841 -1845 - John Tyler

Literature in 1741, Books set in 1641, and Took place in 1541.

41 Best Books of 2020 to elevate your reading

41 debut Authors over 40

14 Female authors recommend 41 favorite female authors

41 more books worth reading

What Beatles song repeats the title in the lyrics forty-one times? Let it be. Read a book with Let It Be in the title

Read the 41st book from the lists of Best 100 including Great American Read, Must Read Classics, Best Books of the 21st Century, Greatest Books, Most Influential, BBC's Big Read, or Goodread's listopia of 100 Best.

Have fun following rabbits trails, exploring events and people from 41BC all the way up to 2014.

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Sunday, October 4, 2020

BW40: October Spooktacular

Welcome to our October Spooktacular reading month. It's time to dip your toes into the water and scare yourself silly. Read thrilling stories stocked with the mysterious and shocking, paranormal stories brimming with ghosts and goblins, or urban mysteries packed with vampires and werewolves. If you are anything like me, I can't stand horror books filled with blood and guts. Give me a psychological thriller any day, roiling with nail biting, spine chilling suspense, creepy settings, and characters you certainly wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

Choose from a wide variety of classics to the contemporary, or the Hitchcockian and Lovecraftian to Stephen King and his son, Joe Hill, to Dean Koontz, to the men and ladies of suspense.

If you haven't read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, now would be the perfect time. Put away all your preconceived notions from the movies as the book is very different and will shock and amaze you. If you have read it, dip your toes into retellings of the story as well as the reimagining's of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

From the really scary to the mild:

The 20 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2020

Best Horror of 2020

31 Psychological Thriller Books That Mess with Your Head

Lock Your Doors: 8 Young Adult Thriller Books

2020 Halloween reads for Kids and Teens

Currently on my night stand are Dean Koontz's Devoted, Josh Malerman's Bird Box, Dan Simmon's Hollow Man, and Marisha Pessl's Night Film, to name a few. Hmm! Which should I read first?

~Cheers to a spooktacular reading month~

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