Literally Geeky discussion

Just giving this a shout out, bit premature but I've already had three people discussing Christmas (*hisses*) today....

Give a scary book to someone for Hallowe'en! I will be.

http://www.allhallowsread.com/the-faq/

I love Hallowe'en almost as much as I love Christmas! Yay!

This is such a great idea!

This is awesome! Halloween is by far my favorite time of the year.

Lara, October's Literally Geeky selection is yours to make, so I trust you to pick something spooky.

I've got loads of spooky books that I need to thin out (mostly gothic horrors): if anyone would like an All Hallows Read book from me, then get in touch.

Ahhhheeeeeeeee! So it is! :-D :-D

I'm dressing up for the hangout. That is happening.

I'll start thinking. I don't read very many spooky books.

I'll dress up for a Hallowe'en Hangout too!

Halloween Hangout! I'll dress up too! We can have a pumpkin carving contest!!!!

Sounds awesome :) I'll dress up too!

PUMPKINS!

Okay, I'm more excited about this than the Christmas hangout. *dances*

I love carving pumpkins! I did a Balrog last year.

Yes it had wings. Balrogs have wings.

That's amazing. AMAZING.

As much as I love it, I'm not very good at it. But I'll put a lot of effort in this year.

*squeee*

Hmmmm.... this could be just the excuse I need to justify a black wig.

We definitely need a pumpkin with the Geekocracy logo carved into it.

Guys, I'm really starting to look forward to this.

Me too. Eeeeee!

Hallowe'en is going to be so good this year.

Ooh we should have spooky drinks.

Vodka and Mountain Dew in a beaker with dry ice.

One for the whiskt drinkers? http://www.tokyoterrace.com/2009/10/a...

Ooh that sounds very fine indeed.

I WANT TO MAKE THESE.

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recip...

Woah, they are cool :D

I have a cookie recipe for Zombie Fingers if anyone is interested. In the recipe, that is. Not sure the cookies would ship properly.

http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/mons... - I made these last year. Plus these...

http://www.confessionsofacookbookquee...

And a severed hand punch.

Ingredients for frozen hand:
1 (10 ounce) package frozen raspberries, thawed
2 1/2 cups cranberry juice
2 envelopes unflavored (veggie) gelatin

Ingredients for punch:
Whatever you like.
I used vodka, ginger beer, appletize, gummy worms and cranberry juice.

Instructions:

Wash and rinse the outside of a rubber glove. Turn glove inside out and set aside. In a 4-cup measuring cup, combine the thawed raspberries and cranberry juice. Pour 2 cups of the raspberry mixture into a small saucepan. Sprinkle the gelatin over and let stand 2 minutes. Warm over low heat, stirring constantly, just until gelatin dissolves. Mix back into the reserved raspberry mixture in the measuring cup.

Pour raspberry mixture into the inverted glove. Gather up the top of the glove and tie securely with kitchen twine. Freeze until solid, or several days if possible.

To serve: Carefully cut glove away from frozen hand. Place frozen hand, palm side up, leaning against side of a large punch bowl. Pour in ginger ale, cranberry juice, vodka, and sparkling cider. Garnish with gummy snakes.

... But watch out when taking the glove off; use a razor to cut around the fingers because it'll be a bloody miracle if you manage to keep all the fingers attached.

Did I mention that I love Hallowe'en?

Okay, there's definite plans for All Hallows Read book swaps - give a shout if you're in.

I'm in, though not knowing much about horror, my swap may be terrible.

Do you have to ask?

Definitely in :) that's what she said

.... Alas, not always.

*giggles*

Lol

Okay: if anyone else is interested in swapping horror books for Hallowe'en, give a shout here... I'll sort something out on .... Sunday.


And no, I will never ever give up the apostrophe. Hallowe'en is a contraction!

Ah, sod it. Go on, why not?

Here's a link with some posters for the occasion. Maybe we should put one of them here and/or on geekocracy.net

http://intbride.blogspot.de/2013/09/a...

I'll definitely put one up on the blog.

Okay folks, if I don't have your address and you want in, email/DM me by the end of the day, and I'll send you your swap buddy.

Still waiting for the book I'm giving to arrive (I had to have it imported), but I'll mail it out as soon as it gets here which will hopefully be this week.

Hopefully my book arrives safely this time - I've had to send it twice. Bloody Royal Mail.

Thread Necromancy ahoy:

Once again, September 2014 has barely begun, and already I'm seeing mentions of Christmas. Christmas! Pah!

Anyone who wants to participate in an All Hallow's Read Bookswap, give a shout, or a howl, or a waaaaaaaaaaaaail.

http://www.allhallowsread.com/

I'm in!

Hope I don't get a book that was used as a murder weapon again.

Bwhahahahahahaha!


.... there are no bloodstains on this year's book, yet.

I want in.

Who wants a portuguese horror story book?

Spot of traditional thread necromancy here.

What's an All Hallows Read bookswap you ask? Simple. You send a spooky book out, and get a spooky book back in return - something Hallowe'en appropriate.

I've never had bad year - The Haunting of Hill House (so, so good) , Locke and Key Volume One (highly rated by Aaron), and the super creepy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (man, the illustrations!!!).

If you're interested in swapping then reply on this thread. By October 1st we'll match you up with a partner.

Sign me up again!

Just - please, no more blood-stained books.

Hey, look! I said the same thing last year.

I need some new material...

Yes!

I'm in. Now, just need to find someone to... err... put some bloodstains on the book.