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Emilymdxn

Emilymdxn

Joined March 2018

Let‘s read a lot and believe in a better world 💛💖💜💙 insta @emilymdxn goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/30587927-emily
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Pumpkinheads | Rainbow Rowell
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One last round of qs for my #skeletoncrew to help me be the best team captain I can!

I‘ll be checking in to get your points twice during the challenge at the middle and end, so you‘ll need to track your own points. I recommend a spreadsheet but whatever works!

I know there‘s a lot of #scarathlon info. If there‘s anything you don‘t see yourself taking part in, let me know and I‘ll just tag you in what interests you.

Emilymdxn I know there's a lot of tags, posts and challenges floating around and I love taking part in Every Single Thing, but if there's anything that's not for you let me know and I'll keep your notification box clear. E.g., I never do the craft projects cause they don't normally work for my disability so I wouldn't need tagging in craft related points opportunities.

On Sunday I'll be visiting a witchy flea market and doing my yearly pumpkinheads reread
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Emilymdxn You can always scroll the #skeletoncrew tag to see what everyone's up to and cheer on the team 😍 4h
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candc320 Yay, I‘m so excited for Sunday!!! I think I‘m MOST excited for just starting….i feel like once it begins I‘ll really start getting in the spirit of things even though it‘s over 90 degrees here in FL 🥵. For 10/1 I hope to start a new spooky book (if I can finish my current book) and watch at least 1 spooky movie! Tag me in whatever you want…I‘ll figure it out 😆! 4h
IndoorDame I agree, you should just tag me in whatever and I‘ll figure out if it works for me. I‘m getting sooo excited for Sunday! I‘m also planning to reread Pumpkinheads then, as well as pick a scary audiobook to start and do a mini marathon of fall Gilmore Girls episodes. 🧡🎃🍁 4h
Emilymdxn @candc320 awesome! I'm in exactly the same space as you just wanting to start as soon as I can. I'm actually already a couple of spooky books in as I have SO many and I just couldn't wait. It's gonna be a big day on Sunday! 4h
Emilymdxn @indoordame awesome! I bet pumpkinheads is going to rocket to the top of the most tagged books on Litsy on Sunday. I love it SO much and I love my tradition of reading it at the start of October every year. I have so so so many spooky and autumnal movies and shows cued up I don't think I could get through them all even if I didn't work once all month 4h
kwmg40 I'm excited about seeing what everyone is reading this month, as I love spooky/scary books of all kinds. On day 1, I'll be doing the #ReadySetRead and #20in4 readathons, and I'll probably be listening to audiobooks while doing my weekend chores. I've got a spreadsheet all ready to go for tracking points, and I don't mind being tagged on everything. 3h
ShananigansReads I am also in for all the tags. I‘ve been holding off on any spooky stuff and I can only do a few at a time before my dreams get weird. Sundays are not big reading days for me but I can definitely make a dent in my watchlist. Looking at everyone‘s lists are making mine longer and longer. 🤣 57m
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Pumpkinheads | Rainbow Rowell
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I‘m very excited for the #20in4 readathon! This is my first readathon in ages and I‘m excited to get back into it at the start of #scarathlon. Life gets in the way of me reading a lot and engaging with Litsy for most of the year particularly now I‘m at grad school but autumn always brings me back.

My goals are to get through at least my school readings, one audiobook and doing my traditional Oct 1 Pumpkinheads reread

@Andrew65 #skeletoncrew

Andrew65 Wonderful to have you joining us, best of luck 😁 19h
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Ahoy #skeletoncrew 🎃 #scarathlon 2023 is just three sleeps away and I‘m excited

The first readathon of the challenge is the #20in4 hosted by @Andrew65 starting tomorrow. Set whatever goals you like and start on your first spooky, scary or autumnal read

If you still have early bird points you haven‘t posted to get yet there‘s still time! Now is a great time to make those bucket lists, pick some bingo boards, buy in some snacks… I can‘t wait!

Andrew65 Great to be the launch evert! 😍 The more that join the merrier, whatever team they are in. 🥰 1d
Emilymdxn @Andrew65 I havent done a readathon in aaaages but my reading self is coming back to life this autumn I can‘t wait to start! 22h
Andrew65 @Emilymdxn Feel very honoured that you‘re using this Readathon to get back in the Readathon game. Best of luck. 19h
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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There are a lot of fun bingo boards and readathons to get on board with this month my #skeletoncrew compatriots! Here‘s a very cool looking bingo board from @Read4life which will work great for horror and non horror reads to suit everyone doing #scarathlon and get those stackable readathon points.

I‘m going to put a link in the comments to a google drive with a lot of other readathon stuff and bingo boards in it if anyone fancies some more!

Read4life Thank you for sharing! 2d
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Bluebird Thanks! I‘m getting a bit overwhelmed with all the options—however I don‘t want to miss anything 😂😂 21h
Emilymdxn @Bluebird everything is 100% optional so don‘t feel the need to bite off more than you can chew 🥰my only goal is for the whole skeleton crew to have a fun scarathlon and if you wanna start a bunch of bingo boards and abandon them halfway through that is your right 🎃 21h
Bluebird @Emilymdxn 😂😂 that sounds about right! This weekend I‘m gonna lay out all the options and decide what I‘ll pursue….and then hope I finish something! The fun is the journey and racking up some points! Bonus for anything I complete 😊 21h
Emilymdxn @Bluebird tbh I never end up finishing any. I‘m such a mood reader I like to have so many bingo boards on the go that every read will fit something 20h
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Ahoy there #skeletoncrew 🎃 if anyone wants to take part in the #poetrymatters daily challenge this October I‘ve heard from @Clwojick and @StayCurious that it will get you the same points as the photo challenges if you post poetry and quotes that match the daily prompts. If you‘ve already been doing this a long time (I know loads of you have!) or if you‘re joining in for the first time like me, this looks a lot of fun!

@TheSpineView #scarathlon

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October, October | Katya Balen
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I am so excited there‘s a second daily photo challenge for #scarathlon this year! Thank you @Eggs and @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🎃

For my #skeletoncrew members - the same rules count for this challenge as the other photo challenge so it‘s:

5 points per photo post on the calendar day (+1 for participation)
15 point bonus if you read a book anytime in October that matches any of the prompts

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Good morning #skeletoncrew 🍁 five sleeps to #scarathlon 🎃🎃🎃

Our host @Clwojick has made an October edition of the I Spy bingo board. If you‘d like to join in and get those bingo board and readathon points, spot the listed features in the books you read to match them to the board.

@ShananigansReads @IndoorDame @moll2 @candc320 @MidnightBookGirl @Pigpen_Reads @kwmg40 @Blerdgal_Fenix @Bluebird @Q84 @Eyelit

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Imaginary Friend | Stephen Chbosky
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Hi there @mom_of_4 🎃 I loved going through your #trappedinaspookyhouse book list and picking these out for you!

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Death by Bubble Tea | Jennifer J. Chow
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Calling all #skeletoncrew #scarathlon team members! @AnnR has created a bingo board for cosy mysteries for October. I know we have some people on the team who aren‘t too into dark horror, so you can match any cosy light mysteries you‘re reading to the picture prompts and get points for the bingo lines and for each hour you read (counting it as a readathon).

The tagged book is one of my all time fave cosies if anyone wants a recommendation 🎃🎃🎃

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Attention #skeletoncrew 🎃 here‘s another readathon running all October that‘s going to be an excellent source of #scarathlon points run by @Catsandbooks

Your goals can be whatever you like - 31 hours of reading, 31 pages a day, 31 books, anything you like! I‘m going to try and go for reading at least 31 books in the month of October 🍂🧙🍁

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Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I love taking part in #bookspinbingo for #scarathlon and winter games every year 🎃🎃🎃 I always stack up as many readathons and challenges as I possibly can! Here‘s my list for October

@TheAromaofBooks

Tagging my wonderful #skeletoncrew teammates down below - if you want to make your 20 book list for book spin bingo it‘s a free pass to some easy points!

AmandaBlaze What readathons have you found for October besides #RushAThon and @TheAromaofBooks maze readathon? 5d
Emilymdxn @AmandaBlaze there‘s also the #witchathon for books with witchy themes, and the #31by31 readathon that @Catsandbooks is hosting. I‘m also running one in the middle of the month called #pumpkinspicereadathon that I‘d love to have you join for 5d
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AmandaBlaze Sounds great. Count me in! 5d
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Thank you!! 5d
kwmg40 I‘ll definitely be posting a #bookspinbingo list for October! I love this monthly event. @TheAromaofBooks 5d
TheAromaofBooks @AmandaBlaze - I think @Clwojick said there will be a master list posted at some point with all the readathons for the month. In addition to the ones Emily mentioned, the #Rushathon that @Andrew65 @Dieareader and @GABI4ROSES have been hosting will be going on through October as well. 5d
DieAReader ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 5d
Clwojick HORRORSTOR! 🖤 5d
Andrew65 Best of luck 😁 5d
Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks The #20in4 Readathon starts on Friday 29th September but will run into October finishing on Monday 2nd October. October‘s #20in4 will run 27th - 30th October. After a short Summer break the 9 day Readathon will return on 14th October #OutstandingOctober 5d
TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 - Ooooo good to know!!! Thank you for the updates!! 5d
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The Bucket List | Rachel Hanna
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I‘ve made myself an ambitious autumnal bucket list for #scarathlon this year! Can you tell autumn is my favourite season lol

I love the bucket list it‘s a great opportunity to get some points for the #skeletoncrew for doing the things I love outside reading

PuddleJumper Which M&S snacks would you recommend? I didn't know they had Halloween stuff 1w
Emilymdxn @PuddleJumper I haven‘t eaten any yet but last year they had really nice cookie dough bites (can‘t remember what it was that made them halloweeny but it was really goody). I think this year they also have cheesy crisps in the shape of vampire fangs 1w
PuddleJumper @Emilymdxn Doughnut bites sound really good. I'll investigate. My local one is mostly used by oap so they sometimes skip the seasonal stuff 1w
Emilymdxn @PuddleJumper I commute through St Pancras for work so they have loads of snack type items for the people getting the Eurostar… it‘s pretty amazing 1w
AllDebooks That's a great list 1w
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Calling all #scarathlon participants! I‘ll be hosting a little midweek readathon October 10-13 to help us all enjoy spooky season more and rack up some readathon points.

This #pumpkinspicereadathon is all about reading whatever you want, however you want, and enjoying the warm gorgeous autumn vibes. Pictures of you reading with a cute hot drink, with it raining outside, under a blanket or all of the above are greatly encouraged!

Clwojick 🤍🤍🤍🤍 1w
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Bookwormjillk Love it! 1w
kwmg40 I'll definitely be joining in! 1w
bthegood thanks - 1w
PuddleJumper ❤️❤️ Lovely idea! 1w
julieclair Love this! 7d
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Here‘s some quick #scarathlon tips and tricks for my #skeletoncrew pals from our wonderful hosts @Clwojick and @StayCurious 🎃

I‘ll be posting the spreadsheet tracker in the comments of this post on my lunch break today when I have a computer. Ask me any questions if there‘s anything here that‘s new to you. I‘m so excited to get started - scarathlon brings me so much joy every year and the games this year look REALLY fun 🧙

ShananigansReads Are we tagging the whole team in every post? I don‘t want to get annoying with my tags 😬 1w
Emilymdxn @ShananigansReads you can go ahead and tag me in every post, I don‘t mind the spam at all it‘s what I‘m here for! Tagging the whole team is not needed for every post but you could if you‘re celebrating/sharing something fun for the whole skeleton crew 1w
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ShananigansReads @Emilymdxn Sounds good. Thank you. 1w
ShananigansReads Also, I apologize to any #SkeletonCrew members I haven't been tagging. I just realized the website cuts off the comment. 😣 1w
candc320 Hi! Just wanted to check on the spreadsheet…no worries if you haven‘t posted it yet or if I‘m missing it 🤪. I just know I‘m the worst at keeping track unless I have something to physically write points in. 4d
Emilymdxn @ShananigansReads @IndoorDame @moll2 @candc320 @MidnightBookGirl @Pigpen_Reads @kwmg40 @Blerdgal_Fenix @Bluebird @Q84 @Eyelit hi everyone! Tagging you in this post again so you can see the tracker spreadsheet I posted above. I‘d recommend entering points that aren‘t for readathons (eg books finished, photo challenge) on here too and just leaving the readathon box blank 4d
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Vita Nostra | Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko
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One of the absolute best books I‘ve read this year! A surreal, dark, original, transcendental fantasy campus novel with world building that‘s just not like anything else I‘ve read. This is right up there with the secret history as the greatest ‘dark academia‘ kind of novel. I saw one review say it was like if Kafka wrote harry potter and that‘s absolutely true in the best possible way.

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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This is my final #scarathlon info post today for the #skeletoncrew 🎃 I know it‘s a lot of content so comment if you have any questions - this is a new element of the challenge and a fun opportunity to get 15 bonus points for a book that happens to meet a prompt from the photo challenge

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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We‘ve got the photo challenge back this year in #scarathlon 🎃 i love looking out for things that make you feel autumnal, spooky, Halloweenie each day. I love looking for something that resonates with each word in my daily life - it‘s quite mindful and then I love capturing those memories! It doesn‘t have to be photos you take yourself that day, it could be a photo that resonated with you or something you saved from before

#skeletoncrew

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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The word search is back this year for #scarathlon 🎃

Anytime you spot one of these words in any book you read, that‘s 10 points 🥰 I love this part of the challenge and am so keen it‘s back this year. It‘s so motivating to keep you reading one more chapter before bed, and it‘s a fun way to get points from books with nothing to do with Halloween if you want a break from being spooky.

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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I‘m gonna be posting some more #skeletoncrew #scarathlon info today!

There‘s quite a lot of ways of getting points - you can bother with as many parts of it as work for you, but I‘m a Get All The Points gal myself 😂

The bucket list is a rly fun way to work out all the autumn experiences you want to have from pumpkin spice lattes to long walks to time with partners and kids, what do you want to do this October? 10 points per item you tick off!

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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Hello to all my #skeletoncrew #scarathlon teammates! I thought it would be nice to get to know each other a little before embarking on our spooky and autumnal reading together so here‘s a little getting to know you post to share and discuss. There‘s no points up for grabs here but it‘d be awesome if you wanted to repost and tell us a bit about yourself!

Here‘s my answers here and in the comments:

1. My perfect Halloween would involve 👇

Emilymdxn a lot of horror movies, a long autumnal walk or easy hike, rich hot tomato soup and coffee, and reading in a little cafe. 2. My all time favourite film is Scream so anything in that franchise, and Practical Magic for my favourite witchy but not scary film. 3. I love everything autumnal really! Can be quiet slow literary fiction, out and out horror, cosy fantasy, romance, I‘m here for all of it. 4. I‘m looking forward to being a captain for the 👇 (edited) 2w
Emilymdxn First time, getting those points (I‘ve never been top points scorer before… but maybe this year?) and I LOVE the word search challenge I think it‘s so fun. 2w
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The Atlas Six | Olivie Blake
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The moral of #scarathlon for me is that I can never be part of too many challenges or make tracking too difficult for myself. What‘s one more?? @PuddleJumper

1 Atlas 6
2 Head like a hole
3 Reyes Incident
4 Don‘t fear the reaper
5 Cottage on pumpkin & vine
6 Frankenstein (Ito)
7 Frankenstein (Shelley)
8 Season of mists
9 Against the currant
10 In charm‘s way
11 Tender is the flesh
12 Interview with the vampire
13 Witcha gonna do

PuddleJumper I join so many and then confuse myself when it comes to points. Good fun! 🤣 2w
CatLass007 I‘ve never heard of the Frankenstein written by Ito. What is the author‘s full name please? 2w
Emilymdxn @CatLass007 it‘s a horror short story graphic novel collection by junji ito! He‘s really talented and imaginative but it‘s quite horrific - if you‘re into that I recommend it! 2w
CatLass007 I like graphic novels. I don‘t read a lot of horror but I think I‘ll check it out. 2w
CatLass007 That looks really interesting. I‘ve added to my personal wish list that‘s already a mile long. 2w
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Just one more info post for the #scarathlon #skeletoncrew 🍁 here‘s the points breakdown. I can also share a blank spreadsheet for tracking your points if anyone would find that helpful to have?

Remember readathons and bingo boards are your friends to get points! If you‘re reading a book to fill a bingo board you found anywhere on the internet that also counts as a readathon, so each hour read could count 5 times (50 points) if you want!

Emilymdxn I think some people might be having an issue with notifications not coming through unfortunately, so please do check my profile every couple days if you want to check you might have missed anything! 2w
candc320 Thanks so much for all the information! I‘d love the spreadsheet info! 2w
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Bluebird Thanks for the information! Glad you sent it early…i misunderstood a few of the criteria. I get it now. Lol. Sad to know only our team buddy read counts for points—I had planned on a buddy read elsewhere. 🙄. I also thought the movie/tv didn‘t need to be scary ones. Ack, i don‘t do horror. I‘d also like the spreadsheet. (edited) 2w
Emilymdxn @Bluebird for movies and tv, any kind of vaguely spooky/mystery/witchy thing will do - could be anything with witches, any kind of cosy murder mystery etc. I think quite a lot of the participants don‘t like horror at all! I‘ll get you the spreadsheet asap - might need to be Thursday as I‘m away and doing everything on my phone rn 2w
Emilymdxn @candc320 I‘ll post a google doc link asap! I‘m away with just my phone at the moment so it might need to be Thursday when I get home 2w
Bluebird @Emilymdxn good to know! Thx. I didn‘t join last year because I thought it was mostly scary reads/movies, but then saw lots of mysteries counted. Is it the same for the books? Or just spooky or autumn theme? No rush on the spreadsheet, anytime before the 1st is fine. 2w
Emilymdxn @Bluebird yes, anything mystery would count, or anything with witches/vampires/the like. You can also read books totally unrelated to Halloween and get points for those - all books count for readathon hours and bingo boards and word search words. I count all my grad school readings! 2w
Pigpen_Reads I'm looking forward to this! 2w
Emilymdxn @Pigpen_Reads excited to have you with us! Let me know if you have any questions or I can help with anything 🎃 2w
kwmg40 @Emilymdxn I'm a bit confused about bingo boards. You said that they count as readathons, so if I read a book for #BookSpinBingo, I get the readathon points for that, right? But if I read a book for a readathon like #LittenListen that has an optional bingo board, do I count the points only once for the readathon or also for the bingo board if I manage to fill a square? I don't want to double dip if it's not legit! 😅 2d
Emilymdxn @kwmg40 you‘re right it‘s a little confusing! If a readathon like litten listen also has a bingo board, just count a book once. So a book read for the board counts once and a book for the readathon that doesn‘t fit the board is also once. So if you read a book that counts for litten listen, book spin bingo and rushathon, that‘s 3 times. I hope that helps 🎃🎃🎃 1d
kwmg40 @Emilymdxn That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! 1d
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For this year‘s #scarathlon watchlist I made a Letterboxd list… with 150 movies on it lol. I LOVE horror movies and spooky or witchy movies in general so I can do this all day everyday lol (and I will). I‘m not a huge tv watcher but I‘m also halfway through charmed and will definitely be counting a bunch of episodes of that.

If any #skeletoncrew team members have movie recommendations for me I‘d love to see them!

mom_of_4 Havent watched Charmed since I was a kid. 2w
Laleepop1 Would love to see your whole movie list. 1w
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ShananigansReads @mom_of_4 I didn‘t like the old one but I loved the new one. 1w
mom_of_4 @ShananigansReads i havent seen the new one but its on my list. 1w
BookingitwithSandra Do you have The Lady in White or Watchers in the Woods? Those two freaked me out and although they are for teens or tweens they still freak me out. 😂 1w
BookingitwithSandra I‘d love to see your full list too. 1w
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Big Little Spells | Hazel Beck
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A peek at my tbr stack for #scarathlon this year. I‘m going for a healthy mix of spooky classics, new horror, cosy mysteries, witchy romance etc. I just love all spooky genres so much!

I‘m going to be reading the tagged book for our #skeletoncrew buddy read - so excited as I loved the first book in the series. I‘d love to see all your tbrs if you‘d like to tag me and use the #skeletoncrew hashtag my pals!

candc320 Great TBR!! I‘m out of town until next weekend but will share mine then! 2w
Emilymdxn @candc320 gorgeous! Anytime before the end of the month is cool 🎃 I can‘t wait to see it! 2w
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Skeleton Crew | Stephen King
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Calling all members of the #skeletoncrew for #scarathlon early bird points! Great chance to get some points in before October 1 for all 3 of the activities above. Start keeping track of your points (spreadsheet, notes app, back of envelope, whatever works) and start earning those points.

I can‘t wait to see your tbrs and to steal some book ideas for myself 🎃

Emilymdxn If anyone would still like to sign up here‘s the link! Join us anytime, always room in the skeleton crew, newbies welcome [edit, i tried real hard to copy the link and it won‘t copy correctly, but I‘ll have to have a redirect to @Clwojick and @StayCurious ‘s posts count as my link unfortunately!] (edited) 2w
Emilymdxn Hi there @Q84 here‘s the early bird points that are available for scarathlon before October 1 :) 2w
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The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer
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Thank you for the tag @dabbe 🥰

1. The wife of bath in the Canterbury tales. Shouting down the male pilgrims to tell a fairytale story about consent and free choice for women 🎉
2. Death in the sandman series. Rereading this right now and I love her so much, maybe my favourite literary Death
3. Got to be Jane eyre - a classic never to be beaten

#threelistthursday if you‘d like to play you‘ve been tagged!

dabbe 1. The wife of Bath was a badass, too! 2. added to my TBR! 3. #greatminds
Thanks for playing! 🧡💜💛
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ChaoticMissAdventures I love Death as a character. The Sandman one is so so good. I also loved Jose Saramago' Death (but he is a male Death) in 2w
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Horrorstor: A Novel | Grady Hendrix
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Attention #scarathlon #skeletoncrew! There‘s a couple choices for our buddy read, worth 50 points, though you can only use one book as the buddy read. I wanted to give more and less scary options

Horrorstör is a horrific comedy about hell and labour relations set in a store that can‘t legally be called IKEA

Emilymdxn Small town big magic (and its sequel) are gorgeous autumnal witchy fantasies about a town I desperately want to move to.

If you wanted to get copies or do library reserves now is the time!
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ShananigansReads Both Hazel Beck books are available on Scribd if you have an account. I guess I'll work on building my TBR today. 💀 2w
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kwmg40 I‘ve already read Horrorstor (and liked it!) so I‘ll opt for Small Town Big Magic. 2w
Pigpen_Reads I'm so excited! I think I will read Small Town Big Magic. 2w
Emilymdxn @ShananigansReads that‘s very good to know! I haven‘t used scribd in ages but it has some good stuff on 2w
Emilymdxn @kwmg40 I‘m so pleased you liked horrorstor! I‘ve read it twice and will probably read it again lol, it‘s just the right balance of entertaining and genuinely scary 2w
Emilymdxn @Pigpen_Reads I really hope you like it! 2w
Emilymdxn Hi @Q84 here‘s your buddy read options for the skeleton crew team - there‘s a horror option and a less disturbing option so pick whichever fits your reading taste better 🎃 2w
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Halloweenland | Al Sarrantonio
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Hello hello it‘s nearly #scarathlon time! I‘m delighted to welcome everyone tagged in this post to the #skeletoncrew team 🎃

I‘m a huge fan of scarathlon and everything halloweeny from horror movies to witchy romance to dark academia to murder mysteries to true crime. Whether you‘re getting a thousand points a day or just taking part a little where you can manage it, I‘m very excited to be in this together!

Emilymdxn If you‘re seeing this and realising you forgot to sign up or you‘re curious to sign up you still can at the links posted by @Clwojick and @StayCurious 🥰🥰🥰 2w
ShananigansReads Yay! So happy to be with this crew and I excited to start earning some points. 💀 2w
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Emilymdxn @ShananigansReads if there‘s one thing I always love it‘s scarathlon points 🎃🎃🎃 2w
IndoorDame Can‘t wait!!! 2w
candc320 Woo hoo!!! So excited! 2w
kwmg40 Excited to be part of this crew!! 2w
Bluebird 🎉 glad to be part of the team! This is my first scarathlon! 2w
Emilymdxn @Bluebird I hope you love it! If you‘re ever confused about rules or points systems or whatever, you can always tag me or comment on one of my posts 🥰 2w
Emilymdxn Hi @Q84 you‘ve just been added to the skeleton crew team and I‘ll be your team captain for scarathlon! Really excited to have you with us. I‘ll tag you in a few posts I‘ve made over the last few days so you‘re all caught up :) 2w
Q84 @Emilymdxn Thanks! 2w
Bluebird @Emilymdxn Thanks! 2w
BookingitwithSandra Is it too late to sign up for the Skeleton Crew?? I‘d love to join!! 1w
Emilymdxn @BookingitwithSandra not too late at all! I‘m having a bit of trouble posting the link to sign up but I‘ll tag you in a post with the link to the google form in it :) I know they‘re trying to keep the teams even size but if you request skeleton crew and the numbers wok I hope that‘ll work out 🎃 1w
Emilymdxn Welcome to the skeleton crew @Eyelit 🎃 I‘m so happy to have you with us on the team. I‘ve posted white a bit of info and tips on my page in the last few days - I can tag you in those posts or you can scroll through my profile and it‘ll all be there above this post. Whatever you prefer! Looking forward to getting spooky together 1w
Eyelit Thanks for letting me join and feel free to tag me going forward! I‘ll comb through your older posts this weekend 😃 7d
Emilymdxn @Eyelit awesome! If you‘ve got any questions on any of it I‘m only a comment away 🎃🎃🎃 6d
BookingitwithSandra @Emilymdxn thanks! i already filled out the form 2 days ago... Did you see it? 6d
Emilymdxn @BookingitwithSandra yes we have! I think your team captain should have tagged you in a post introducing you to their team. Unfortunately I‘m not gonna be your captain cause of how the numbers worked out but you‘re definitely in a team! Did you not get that tag? 5d
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Sleeping Beauties | Stephen King
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Stephen king is a funny one for me cause I can never tell if a book is gonna carry me away and make me love it or just be eh. Unfortunately for a book this long, it was eh. I didn‘t feel like there was enough world building or content for 700 pages. I was alway waiting for the story to get bigger or more intricate but it never quite did? Not one of his best for me.

MissyD I love Stephen king‘s older stuff. But some of his newer stuff hasn‘t been as good to me. I think his writing style changed after he was hit by the van, and almost died and after he got off the drugs/alcohol. But that could be just me 🤷🏼‍♀️. 2w
Emilymdxn @MissyD there‘s some post drugs ones I really like but it‘s far from all of them. Needful things and lisey‘s story were great for me 2w
MissyD @Emilymdxn it‘s the same for me. I liked 11/6/63 (?) up to a point. Then it got a little weird for me. I loved his older stuff. But the newer books are hit or Miss. I liked fairytale. But didn‘t love it. I am getting ready to start his newest one. 🤞🏻. Hoping I like it. I like his “the button box” trilogy. It has become one of my favorites of his. 2w
Emilymdxn @MissyD i thought fairytale started SO well and then it turned out kinda fine, not bad but not the best. I‘m excited for the new one too I want to get it for scarathlon! 2w
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The Dead Romantics | Ashley Poston
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Such a sweet, original, funny, heartfelt romance. This was spooky and touching and romantic. I thought the subplot with the death of the MC‘s father was really well handled - I never usually appreciate dark material in romance but this was an exception that was written so well. I loved Ben our ghostly love interest and I think this would be a great pick for #scarathlon if anyone is looking for books for this years challenge 🥰👻💀

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Ninth House | Leigh Bardugo
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I always always love dark academia and this had incredible concepts, world building and ideas. The concept of magic secret societies doing necromancy at Yale is just so delicious, so obviously I adored it.

I will say the plot was complicated and I don‘t think being told out of order helped it. I‘d have preferred a chronological beginning to end version of the story being honest.

ShyBookOwl How was Nightmare Movies?? 1mo
Emilymdxn @shybookowl Really good! I recommend it (edited) 1mo
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Into Thin Air | Jon Krakauer
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My bf recommended me this so many times and I never read it because I didn‘t care about mountaineering, but I‘m so glad I finally read it. This was so atmospheric and there was such a sense of dread. The horror and true crime part of my brain loved this so much and the writing was so beautiful. Maybe the only book about Everest I‘ll ever like but I loved this

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I‘m afraid I wanted to like this one more than I did. I usually like tessa bailey but the characters being so wildly irrationally jealous was a big turn off for me. In a contemporary real world romance I just can‘t be doing with seething jealousy from people in their mid thirties about someone you dated 10 years ago like, it just doesn‘t do it for me.

Sweet and funny around that and I loved the winemaking setting.

wanderinglynn I‘m 50-50 on Bailey‘s books. Some I like and some I don‘t for similar reasons. 1mo
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Hangsaman | Shirley Jackson
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This has been sitting in my kindle forever and when I finally read it it was one of my favourite books of the year! Such a gorgeously dark and complex coming of age state of the nation dark academia campus novel (if that‘s a thing). I‘ll be turning Natalie over and over in my head forever. I also think this is going to set me off on a big Shirley Jackson phase I need more.

Ruthiella I really liked this one too. I still need to read the rest of her back catalogue. 1mo
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To celebrate #scarathlon signups coming around for another year I treated myself to this Junji Ito collection in Waterstones. He‘s such a master of really inventive and cool horror and I bet this reinterpretation of a horror classic will help with a lot of bingo boards eh

Coueriamb I just got this from my local comic place too! It looks amazingly grotesque 2mo
gossamerchild Ooh, this one was pretty good! Junji Ito is a fantastic #scarathlon choice. 2mo
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Icebreaker | Hannah Grace
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I‘m turning into such a romance reader - they‘re the only books that fix my brain after grad school reading. I decided to give this booktok classic a go without super high expectations as I hate sport, but I was pleasantly surprised. It took a while to get into (swear there were 10x as many side characters as we needed?) but I got so invested and really really cared by the end. I‘m definitely going to read the sequel so have to call it a pick.

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If I Was Your Girl | Meredith Russo
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I would absolutely buy this for a teen if I knew one. Positive, sweet, honest but optimistic trans representation for young people is so important and I wish there had been more like this when I was a teen looking for queer books.

Having said that, it‘s a rare YA book that wins me over to not just wishing I was reading something for adults. That didn‘t seem fair to hold against the book though as I knew what it was going in.

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Tokyo Express | Seicho Matsumoto
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“He normally came here for coffee every couple of days, so it was only natural for her to say this after his almost week-long absence. Of course, she knew nothing of his trip to Kyushu.”

Happy national book lovers day!

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

Eggs To you as well Fellow Book Lover💛 2mo
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Help Me | Rosina Davies

Is anyone else having an issue of no photos showing up on litsy at all? I can‘t even see people‘s profile pics or my own posts, just grey squares. When I log in online everything‘s fine though it‘s just my phone.

Is that just me?

catiewithac That‘s how my app is too. It works on a browser. 2mo
Birdsong28 Yes it's been happening since yesterday I did 2 reports by shaking my phone 📚📖 2mo
DivineDiana Yes! 😕 2mo
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BooksCoffeeNurse I thought it was just me! What is going on! 😱 2mo
AmyG Yep. So now I am trying to get used to Litsy.com. 2mo
BarbaraBB Yes but they are working on it! 2mo
vonnie862 Yes! Here I thought I needed to upgrade my phone since it is old. 2mo
Read4life Yup. I much prefer the app, so I haven‘t read any posts since Monday. Guess I will be using the browser until this is resolved. 2mo
IndoorDame @BarbaraBB have they said when they expect it to be back in to normal? 2mo
IndoorDame @Birdsong28 what does that mean, shaking your phone? Is that an android thing cause I tried and nothing happened… 2mo
Birdsong28 @IndoorDame When you shake your phone two options come one is to report an issue it might just be Android I'm not sure give a good shake as sometimes it doesn't come up straight away 2mo
Megabooks They are working on it. You can go to Onward Litsy on Facebook or look at @timspalding ‘s post here. @catiewithac @birdsong28 @divinediana @bookscoffeenurse @vonnie862 @read4life (edited) 2mo
ju.ca.no According to the facebook group they are aware and working on it as fast as they can🤗 2mo
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Back in a Spell | Lana Harper
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I love this series so much - I do think this was the weakest of the three so far but still a pick overall. I‘m a big sucker for soulmates/soul bound kind of things, more and more as I get into romance novels more, so this was right up my alley. The writing and the witchiness of the world and all the side characters was so strong.

Having said that, I was confused by the approach to the non binary love interest who was mostly just treated as a man?

willaful That sounds disappointing! Like the author is just trying to jump on a bandwagon. :-( 2mo
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Halloweentown: Witch U. | Juliet Giglio, Keith Giglio, Max Enscoe, Annie Young
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My favourite time of year is here again - I mean it‘s august so it‘s basically Halloween already right? SO excited to have signed up for the fifth annual #scarathlon and to be a team captain this year! Thank you so much as always @Clwojick and @StayCurious 🎃

Could I please just check you got a legitimate email address in my signup form? Worried I did a typo and can‘t go back to check 🫠

Clwojick You‘re all good! I cross referenced it with last years sign up and it‘s the same. ☺️ 2mo
Emilymdxn @Clwojick awesome thank you! 🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️ 2mo
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I know I just said I was sick of angry, clipped-writing-style millennial books about women being angry with society, but maybe I should rephrase it to add ‘but only if they do it REALLY well‘. This isn‘t the kind of book I like much anymore but it was so so well executed, so thoughtful and original, so good at being both dark and funny and touching, that I couldn‘t not love it.

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There was nothing really wrong with this novel but I just didn‘t quite get on with it. I used to love Sally Rooney but I think I‘ve soured quite a lot on ‘millennials in relationships not quite communicating‘ books - I might just have read too many of them. Some beautiful writing but in general I spent the whole book thinking ‘why am I here? When does this end?‘

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The incomparable @indiaro surprised me with this on audiobook because I had a shitty cold last week - nothing serious just a dreadful sinus headache and needing to sleep all the time for a few days - and she knew exactly what would fix me. I‘m really enjoying this, like it‘s very similar to her other books but what‘s not to like about a rom com set between warring wine shops

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My second time reading the tagged book so you can probably guess I like it a lot 😮 it‘s funny, Brendan is really really not for me as a romantic hero (I don‘t at all need anyone growling at me that I belong to them) but I still find this book really comforting and fun. I just bought a copy for a friend and it made me realise how much I wanted to go back to Westport. I want to inherit a bar in a small fishing town and reinvent myself there ngl

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I‘ve been really loving rom coms, and particularly witchy rom coms, recently. This had a lot going for it but in the end I think I found most of it too silly to be on board with much of the plot or the central love story. It was very slapstick and the spells, names etc just felt too childish for a spicy scene in the middle of that to make much sense I guess? I loved the MC I just wish the tone had been different.

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There were parts of this I… nearly enjoyed? The description of the town was nice and some of the magic. But EVERY woman on EVERY page was having her weight and bodily functions described in truly bizarre detail. I‘m not sure if John Updike has a) never met a woman or b) only met women he truly truly despised and sort of believed were just fat messy automata??

CSeydel One of the rare cases where the movie is better 3mo
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The Allegory of Love | C. S. Lewis
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I‘m in holiday reading mode! My bf and I are in northern Italy for about a week and I‘ve got to say, I‘d forgotten how good it is having an air conditioned flat to sit in and read and no one needing me to be anywhere. I‘m trying to balance out some masters reading with some romance novels (but the romance novels are winning)

Hooked_on_books That cover of Piedmont is so pretty. It seems like so many people are going to Italy! 3mo
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The Virgins: A Novel | Pamela Erens
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I‘ve been reading a lot of campus novels recently and I really liked this one. It came highly recommended and while it wasn‘t perhaps as standout as I had it billed to me, I loved the way it cultivated the vibe of a privileged, quite isolated, quite intense and hormonal and emotional boarding school. The atmosphere was amazing and the characters fitted that perfectly.

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Possession | A. S. Byatt
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I‘ve been meaning to read this for years and I was absolutely right about how much I‘d love it. Beautiful, labyrinthine, full of yearning and strange surreal mystery elements and I LOVED how it viewed the past and wrote about (obviously very romanticised and somewhat secret history-esque) academia. The ending was a bit predictable but I wasn‘t really in it for the solution to the mystery eh

JamieArc I loved this one when I read it years ago for my English literature degree. When I was in grad school, I got to see AS Byatt speak and she was lovely. I got a bit starstruck meeting her when she signed my book 🤩 3mo
KathyWheeler I absolutely loved this book! When I was in grad school, I had considered writing my thesis on both Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti (it ended up being on neither), so this book just struck close to my heart. 3mo
Gissy That one I has been in my tbr for ages too!😱it was good to read your review because it reminded me that is waiting for me to read it☺️ 3mo
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