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I was so struck by this image of the Halloween tree when I read this last month. #Pumpkin #NovemberNarrative @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I love the way Bradbury tells a story. His work is deceptively complex and I enjoyed this Spooky Season exploration of friendship, adventure, imagination, grief and death. I might not make it an annual tradition, but I would consider reading it again.

This was another one where I just couldn‘t concentrate on the audio, but adored it once I switched to the print version. Also Mugnani is such a talented artist, I‘m psyched this library version is illustrated by him. #Scarathlon2022 #TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #Spookoween2022 @TheSpineView #31by31 @Catsandbooks #PointsAThon @dieareader @GHABI4ROSES #OutstandingOctober @andrew65 #witchathon @mdm139

What a flight of phantasmagorical fancy this book is. Thoroughly enjoying it for my #bookspinbingo board @TheAromaofBooks 💀🥀

#ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94

🎃 I like both. However, if I had to choose it would be mysteries.
🎃 Haunted House
🎃 Tagged

Want to play? @Susanita @Gissy @wanderinglynn @ozma.of.oz @GatheringBooks @PageShifter

This is probably one of the creepiest covers I have in my collection. You‘ve got a little bit of everything; witch, monster, demon, pumpkins, mummy. It‘s one of my favorite Halloween stories! #skeleton #ominousoctober

#Pumpkin #OminousOctober @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Classic creepy tale for Halloween. A bunch of kids follow an old man who may or may not be death back through the centuries in search of their friend 🎃
#TeamMonsterMash @StayCurious #scarathlonwordsearch #stabbybingo #pumpkincover #BodyCountBingo #Holiday @PuddleJumper #WickedWords #Halloween @AsYouWish #AutumnBingo2022 #Illustrated @Ann_Reads #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks #AutumnAtoZ #H @Texreader #Spookoween @TheSpineView

Yesssss 🍂🍁 that is all lol

#Scarathalon2022 #TeamSlaughter

I have a watchlist of a few movies and tv shows. But this is not my usual fare. Any recommendations are very welcome

Event still open to join in, check out the iriginal post on @Clwojick or @StayCurious pages.
https://litsy.com/p/czJGR1pabXBp

I already have The walking dead (final episodes), Crimson Peak, Apostle, Scream, The haunting of Bly Manor, Sleepy Hollow and Hocus Pocus 1 & 2

@Clwojick

#Scarathalon2022
Not too late to join the spooky fun and games. I'm on #TeamSlaughter with @Clwojick

Fill out the sign up form, are you a #TeamSlaughter or #TeamMonsterMash with @StayCurious

#HauntedHollowSwap

1. A bat or black cat, maybe an owl

2. Tagged

3. I‘m the person in the other room reading and not watching at all. 😆🫣

4. It‘s not a true “Halloween song” but it has the feel of Halloween: Save My Soul by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - https://open.spotify.com/track/2euSu0KhXQg055y2FO45LG?si=K4j2Sg_ARs6t3QH8sLqTiA

5. Rocky Horror, Beetlejuice, Clue, Nightmare Before Christmas, & The Addams Family (so exited to watch Wednesday!)

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I read this one Oct 18th for #scarathlon2021 #screamathon and #BookSpinBingo

October / #Screamathon Wrap-up!

Took me a bit to get into this one, probably due to some distraction yesterday while listening. Very imaginative story and interesting history about Halloween. Last book for #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick 26 pts

One final one for #Halloween. It‘s also my #doublespin and gives me my first and only #bookspinbingo for October.
Last year I treated myself to a print copy of the tagged after listening to it for the first time. This year my treat was this Dracula nutcracker because it‘s the perfect mashup of my 2 favourite things! 🎃🧛‍♀️🩰🖤❤️
#scarathlon2021 #teamhendrix #screamathon2021 #spookoweenathon #wickedathon #ominousoctober #monstermash #roaringwolf

#scarathlon #screamathon #20in4 #halloween #readathon #spookoween

I am not sure why I missed reading/listening to this Ray Bradbury classic Halloween book before but it was an enjoyable listen last night (narrated by Bronson Pinochet). Lightly spooky & a good review of Halloween traditions around the world. I think it will fill a square in a #LittenListen bingo & 26 points for my #TeamHendrix scorecard with it‘s Halloween title & focus.

Thank you thank you, Sharon! This book is totally up my Halloween alley, I'm so excited to read it! And I love the orange edges and added colours and spooky stickers throughout, can't wait to find them all as I read 😁

Thanks a million @DinoMom and thanks to our always awesome organizer @LibrarianRyan 🎉🎉🎉

#AlteredNightmareSwap #ANS

I love Bradbury (Dandelion Wine is one of my favorite books EVAH), but had never read this one… I decided to listen because of how much another of my swap partners @PatriciaU loves it, and I‘m so glad I did!

A quick, spooky story starts with a haunted house, continues with a creepy character taking some trick-or-treaters through time to see the history & meaning of Halloween. All with Bradbury‘s amazing & touching storytelling.🖤

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Happy Halloween, and Blessed Samhain to all my fellow Witchy Littens!

#Haunted @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Halloween

Have a safe and fun Halloween! 🧡🎃🖤

This one was interesting. Usually I really like Bradbury's writing, but I felt like parts of this book weren't written the best. I did like the concept of the story though, and the history behind Halloween.

Pumpkins play a major role in this book, which makes it well suited for the #Haunted pumpkin prompt. I haven't read this book yet, but I've always loved the movie (I grew up on it)!

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#thinkpositivebepositive
Thank you for the tag @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤ & @Eggs
Happy Halloween Weekend🎃

Finished my reread. Always a nice little story to read around Halloween. 🎃

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#Scarathlon2021 #Screamathon #Wickedathon
#SpookOWeen #20in4 #Readathon

+26 points #TeamHendrix

Starting off today with the tagged book. Here are some pictures of The Halloween Tree I took at Disneyland earlier this month. #scarathlon2021 #TeamHendrix

Two Halloween classics 🎃

#Pumpkin #Haunted
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Doing a quick reread of The Halloween Tree next. 🎃

#Scarathlon2021 #Screamathon #Wickedathon
#SpookOWeen #Readathon

+1 point #TeamHendrix

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Not much of a rereader, but I'd like to either listen to or read the tagged book.
2. I hope so, I'll be ready with candy. My Chihuahua loves it to see all the kids at the door. I missed it so much last year.

You ever feel entirely alienated by another person's nostalgia? Anyway, I read The Halloween Tree.

As often happens during #Deweys24HourReadathon, I start 5 new books and finish maybe one. This is the one I finish this year. A fun adventure throughout history and around the world discovering what the holiday means to different people.

Book 191

Week 2 Score (NOT cumulative): 1,384.50.

#ReadAThon #dailycheckin #OutstandingOctober #SpookoweenReadathon #Scrathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter #AYearAThon #FrightFall #DebutAuthorChallenge #BackToTheClassics #PrettyMessReading #LiteraryEscapesChallenge #ColorCodedReadingChallenge #CalendarOfCrime #PickYourPoison

Came home after a trying Monday and found this beauty! What a spirit-lifter, especially because it‘s from @sprainedbrain ! Thank you, Jenni! Chester approves. #hhs #hauntedhallowswap @wanderinglynn

This is finally out the door and on the way! Should arrive later in the week. @wanderinglynn #HHS #HauntedHallowSwap

I have been gone from my house for a few days, so I was super excited to see that my #hauntedhollowswap had arrived! Thanks in advance to my gift giver! I also sent out my package this afternoon. It should arrive on October 18th! Thanks to @wanderinglynn for organizing everything. I was going to take a picture of the leaves outside, but the weather is nasty. Instead, here is a cute puppy!

I loved, loved , loved the chapter describing Pipkin, then after getting a little over 40% in I decided to bail. Turns out that was the only chapter I loved.

#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter

Make a good night!

9 year old me would absolutely have loved this book but I feel like the boat has sailed and adult me just doesn't appreciate all the magic this packs in. 🤷‍♀️ Great culture lessons about celebrating the dead, though! I did appreciate that!

1. Both, depends on mood
2. Cozy = Murder She Wrote. Crime = Twin Peaks

#Two4Tuesday #Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter
Thanks for the tags @TheSpineView @Kdgordon88

Make a great day everyone 🎃

As I crossed the threshold of my home on my way to the Post Office, I noticed that my #HauntedHollowSwap has arrived! What a big mail day! 🎃

Kelly, I don‘t see your Litsy handle anywhere on the outside, so I‘m not tagging you directly…but thank you (in advance)! I love the stickers! 💀

I loved it! 🎃 Why did it take me so long to read more Bradbury? Ah well. #Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft

Found on Tubi the 1993 animated made for TV movie that has Bradbury as the narrator and Leonard Nimoy voices Carapace Clavacle Moundshroud 😂 it was pretty good!

#screamathon @4thhouseontheleft scare pairs
#Scarathlon #TeamHendrix @StayCurious 6pts

If you haven't listened to this Colonial Radio Theater version, you're missing out. It's so great! Highly recommend!

#Scarathlon #TeamHendrix @StayCurious
#Screamathon @4thhouseontheleft #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks space 22 - free
#SpookoweenReadathon @TheSpineView (1/10)
#LittenListen @aperfectmjk celebrates Halloween
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Halloween book(25)+(2hrsx5readathons)+1=126pts

The Halloween Tree was my 2nd October read of the month and actually more terrifying than I was expecting for something classified as a middle grades book. I was impressed for sure. #audiobook #bingo #screamathon #spookoween #littenlisten #scarathlon #teamhendrix
@StayCurious @4thhouseontheleft @aperfectmjk @TheSpineView

#Bookspinbingo #Doublespin
@TheAromaofBooks 🧡🖤🧡
So good thing I read like a fiend👹 the beginning of the year because that mid year slump was a killer🪦. I like to vote in the Goodreads choice awards, so to fight my slump and give me the best chance of voting I'm only reading 2021 releases for Oct and Nov. Except for some of the free spaces, could be older audio books and joining in a group read. Thank you for all you do!

Happy October, friends! I took an extended break from all things bookish (including Litsy 😕) because of a wicked book slump and grown up annoying things! But I think I'm finally excited to get back to reading and seriously need the downtime. Thank you to everyone that tagged me while I was away including @DarkMina and @eggs. I'm gonna get into Bookspin Bingo @TheAromaofBooks if I can, have my list ready to post. Missed seeing all of your posts!

I never read this as a kid & I didn't know what to expect now. If you said it was a thinly disguised history lesson, I wouldn't have believed you. 🎃🧙‍♀️👻

October #Bookspin list! I keep thinking I can‘t wait to read ALL of these books in October when I have to remind myself that I might read 6 🤦🏻‍♀️. The 24-hour readathon is at the end of the month, so I included some short, quick, fall-themed books for that.