October, October | 
October was a great reading month! A couple of duds, but that‘s A-ok! ☺️
I felt like I read nonstop in October, so I wasn‘t too shocked when I tallied 2 literary magazines and 26 books for the month. Now I‘m intentionally slowing the pace a bit to avoid burnout.
Standouts for the month were—Murder in the Family (fascinating true crime book written by the son of a woman who died of arsenic poisoning in 1959.)
-No Easy Answers (not especially well written but it sent me down the Columbine rabbit hole again. ⬇️
#Octwrapup
All over the map this month! I opened a new B&N on October 6th…. So my reading has been sporadic!
But definitely some good ones! Cloud Cuckoo Land and Jacket Weather are both headed for my end of year favorites list, a bookclub re-read made me fall in love with the Lily King all over again, the Thursday murder club was a rare superior sequel, and I was totally here for the Housewives tea! ☕️
October‘s wrap-up. I‘d put all of them solidly in the “recommend” category.
Hey #TeamSlaughter! Just a reminder to get your final weeks points posted at some day today, so we can get the team vs team totals posted tomorrow! If you‘re unable to get it posted today, please let me know, and I‘ll wait for you tomorrow.
It‘s been a honour to be your TeamSlaughter team captain! I hope you guys had a blast! If you missed it, the signups for the #WinterGames are now open, and the link is in the comments. ❤️🔥😈
Finally finished rallying up my week 3 and 4 #scarathlon points, and overall I‘m pretty happy with my numbers. I added another 2,857 points to #TeamSlaughters total. I can‘t wait to see what the final numbers will be!
Week 1 was my best week for points, thanks to the word game. Week 3 was the best week for reading, and week 4 was my worst reading week.
I will say I felt a little out of sorts without my bullet journal, but I FINALLY found it!
Here‘s how many books I read in October. This wasn‘t my best reading month. I carried both of these books over from my September TBR so I could read them this month. These books were both physical books. I‘m glad I read these 2 books but I didn‘t get to read the spooky books I wanted to read. I have a hard time focusing on physical books so it takes me longer to read them but it doesn‘t take me as long to listen to audiobooks.
Ahh running behind on #BookSpinBingo
October was a busy month for me, I read consistently but at a very leisurely pace 😂
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Made for Love ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
ACOTAR ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
#OctoberStats #OctoberWrapUp #bookspinbingo #bookspin
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Bewilderment
Summerwater
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Nothing Man
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Beautiful World Where Are You
Sovietistan
The Promise
⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Leavers
A Bird in the House
Never Fall Down
The Woman Upstairs
DNF
Beloved
October #bookspinbingo #bookspin #doublebookspin
21 books. One not on my #bingo board. Sorry.
Fat cat laid on my notebook.
Here are my October Stats!
25 books finished!
3 DNF
8 physical books-1 graphic novel
8 ebooks
9 audiobooks
Most read genre-horror then fantasy
Favorites-Into the Drowning Deep, Empire of the Vampire & Under the Whispering Door
Had a lot of fun diving into spooky books for #Scarathlon2021
#octoberreads
Happy Halloween everyone!
My final results for October Bookspin:
#bookspin = Red Harvest --finished this one on 10/05
#doublespin = Teen Killers --I did not finish this one...too many holds from the library kept me from getting to this one.
@TheAromaofBooks
Two bingo's --one across the middle row and the other is diagonal \\\\\\
Now to get my list together for November...
Posting this #OctoberBookBingo again now that we're almost to the end of the month. Repost with your bingos!
Updated #October #bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks
Managed to complete both #bookspin & #doublespin this month!
#16 - Tranquil Heights/Speece (14 Oct)
#21 - Daughters of Ys/FREE (22 Oct)
#9 - Night Film/Pessl (26 Oct)
I‘m late on everything this week because I was traveling. Despite massive troubles getting there it was an amazing visit with my mom and my sister‘s family, but now I‘m off by several days and trying to adjust to being home.
For #OutstandingOctober I finished one book, read two, started two, and did not keep up with buddy reads! But I read what I could and hope to finish October strong. Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting!
I didn‘t have time to go through all the Readathon and bingo boards, so I‘ll be adding those points to next weeks total. For now I‘ve brought in 520 points for #TeamSlaughter!
I can‘t believe we‘re on the last few days of October already, but that‘s just making me more and more excited for the #WinterGames!
My final count for #OutstandingOctober is 23 hours of reading, starting & finishing 2 books marked with the 👻 👻 reading 10 stories in Good Southern Witches, finishing the last half of These Violent Delights for #sundaybuddyread 👻 & starting & listening to 76% of Deathless Divide, both marked with 💀
Not bad for a crazy work schedule & trying to catch up on sleep over the weekend. Plus some good points for #scarathlon #teamhendrix too.🧙♀️
So I guess I made a little more progress on my #bookspinbingo board this week than I remembered 🤣, and adding everything up I actually read/listened for a total of 29 hours this week! Between that and the various readathons and movies/tv shows I came in with a total of 1,240 for #teamslaughter !! #scarathlon2021
I nearly forgot that this starts today! I‘ve still got to keep my knee elevated and stay off of it as much as possible, so hopefully that means I‘ll have plenty of time to read! So I‘m putting my goal to getting through 6 books or, if that‘s too much for me, to read at least an hour a day. #outstandingoctober @Andrew65
For #OutstandingOctober my reading goals are to finish “An Elderly Woman…” and “Imaginary Friend.” My stretch goal is starting my October #bookspin book, “Life After Life.” Looking forward to a some spooky reading over the next week!
For #OutstandingOctober I want to finish Fight or Flight. I want to read The Inner Game of Music and Portents, each of which would complete a line on #BookSpinBingo (so far I‘m doing the “how many books can I read and NOT get a bingo” game). I Hope You‘re Listening is my #BookSpin and #YABuddyRead (though I‘ll be traveling and likely not make the discussion). Keep up #SheSaid Hood Feminism, start The Woman in White while flying next Friday.
#wondrouswednesday
1. #scarathlon2021 #screamathon #littensdressedinblood #bookspinbingo
2. Green beans, mixed greens, carrots
3. My husband and his chill-ness during this garbage school year
Probably hard to read, but here it all is: my October nonsense lol
#Scarathlon #TeamHendrix @StayCurious
#screamathon @4thhouseontheleft
#LittenListen @aperfectmjk
#OutstandingOctober @Andrew65 (5 books)
#SpookoweenReadathon @TheSpineView (10 books)
#Wickedathon @StayCurious
#necronomathon @Patchshank
#BookSpinBingo #BookSpin #DoubleSpin @TheAromaofBooks
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It almost looks like I planned my reads with #bookspinbingo in mind, doesn‘t it? But the two left in that line are both second in series, so I need to spread out some to get to those. Trying to decide what to start next, maybe In Cold Blood and then one of the series starters.
Here is my October TBR. All of these books are books that I didn‘t get around to reading. The books I chose last month also match the cards I drew from The Secret Language Of Color Cards. The physical book I have to read is Appalachia. I just started it today but I‘m not very far in it yet. The other books are all audiobooks. I still haven‘t chosen books for my other reading challenges that I‘m participating in this year but I‘ll figure it out.
Here's #BookSpinBingo for this month. I'll be pretty busy, but we'll see how much we get done... Thanks as always, @TheAromaOfBooks
#hauntedhallowswap my packaged arrived and I almost opened it! I thought it was from my step mother in law who is also a Patricia that lives in New York! Then I had a really good laugh, because…. What are the odds! So excited!
I‘m waiting on one more thing from Etsy and then mine is hitting the road.
Here‘s my living #bookspinbingo card for October! I went ahead and added a book I finished today to a free space. Let‘s do this!
Super excited about my October reading plans!
Emily‘s Quest: #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
Dragonsong: IRL book club & Oct. #DoubleSpin
Door on Half-Bald Hill: Oct. #BookSpin
Tuck: Sept. #BookSpin
David‘s Crown: October poetry pick
Ophie‘s Ghosts: #MGBuddyRead
Whose Body, Clouds of Witness, Thornhill, and Mr. Quin for fun & possible #BookSpinBingo!
But tonight a friend lent me his copy of The Last Graduate, so that may edge out some of the above…😁
I took the extra time I had in the kitchen (HAHA) to make my BINGO board for #bookspinbingo. I had 25 books because once I added all the books I wanted, plus the two team books for #scarathlon2021 I had 23... So I gave up and picked two more little books for an even 25.
@StayCurious @TheAromaofBooks
@TheAromaofBooks
Here is my board for #October #bookspinbingo
Cant wait for all the spooky reads in store for me this month.
And at the 11th hour, my October #bookspinbingo books! Book 20 is Festival Days and will hopefully be arriving on Monday. I‘m looking forward to the number draw!
I probably won‘t have time to take part in #BookSpinBingo this month because of school, but I‘m going to try to keep going with #BookSpin so here is my list!
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Reposting my October physical book stack for today‘s #LittensDressedinBlood prompt - October Pile!
Thanks to Litsy, October is one of my favorite reading months of the year and one for which I save books. I have big plans and I‘ve already started! I‘m halfway through the audiobook of The Only Good Indians (total mistake on my end - do not recommend if you struggle with animal death) and I started Anthony Bourdain‘s Hungry Ghosts. It‘s gross, too. I have a couple annual rereads planned and I‘ll be watching Ichabod on Disney+. Happy Fall!
Got some exciting goals for October as I'm starting a new exercise class!
1- read 8 books
2- 4X new exercise classes
3- 4X home workouts
I can't see myself achieving all of these but I wanted to aim high 💪#BFC21 @wanderinglynn
Okay, ladies and gents of #TeamSlaughter! It‘s officially October 1st, and that means THE SPOOKY GAMES HAVE BEGUN!
I wish each and every one of you a brilliantly creepy month filled with games, mysteries, and a whole lotta Halloween goodness! Cheers team, now let‘s crush this! 😝🖤 #Scarathlon2021
Posting this by the skin of my teeth but here is my #bookspinbingo list for October/partially my #screamathon #scarathlon2021 TBR because there‘s plenty of other books I have on my radar that I could pick up this month. Can‘t wait to get started with all the spooky goodness! @TheAromaofBooks @Clwojick @4thhouseontheleft #teamslaughter
“He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it — the ending and beginning of things.”
—Jacqueline Woodson,
If You Come Softly
Finally finished my #bookspinbingo card for October! Had to make a couple changes, since I actually finished a couple of the books in September 😅 (hooray long plane rides)
I am sooo hoping that October is a better reading month for me than September was! #bookspin #bookspinbingo #doublespin
I have been slacking on posting & reviewing. Darn it. Here's my October #bookspin #bookspinbingo list. All thrillers since it looks like #botm is going to let me down. Can't wait to get started. September started off rough & I just couldn't recover. ☹️
@TheAromaofBooks
I‘m not going to consider this cheating. I still haven‘t touched my September #bookspin selections, so I‘m repeating the list for October because…I 💜 this monthly challenge. If the same numbers from Sept. are picked (13 & 15, I think), I‘ll pull in the neighboring read in it‘s place (14 for 13, 16 for 15). I think that makes sense… 🤔🤷🏻♀️
GASP! #Scarathlon2021 starts in just two short days! Even sooner for some of our Australian players 🖤
So #TeamSlaughter, are you ready to get your spooky reading on?! I know I am! Just a reminder to post your Scarathlon TBR if you haven‘t already, for those 50 early bird points.
I wrote up a quick little document, with all the event details in one place.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18HH9UYoDEXJhhBdVdul0Cw4LCaU0gB4IZII2cwr0hH4/...
