Seasons of Reading Readathons discussion

FrightFall sign ups here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Pre-Readathon this weekend, Sept. 29-30 (48 hours).
Post-Readathon Oct. 31-Nov 1 (48 hours)

No special sign-ups needed for these. If you're participating in FrightFall, you're automatically in (if you want to be).

Update: Pre Readathon is a go! Post is up on the blog here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Update 2: I created a challenge if you want to set a goal and keep track of what you read. It's on the home page of the group, or you can find it here: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...

Update 3: Prize Page is here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Mid-Event Check-In post here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Update 4: Post Readathon is a go! Post is up on the blog here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Update 5: It's a wrap! Post on the blog here: https://seasonsreading.blogspot.com/2...

Woo I definitely need the Pre-Readathon to finish up my non-King books before Oct. 1!

My TBR:
Finish Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Finish Virgil Wander
Finish Watership Down (audio)
Finish The Brilliant Death

Read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Read Saga, Vol. 2

Finish Dracula

Elyse wrote: "Woo I definitely need the Pre-Readathon to finish up my non-King books before Oct. 1!

My TBR:
Finish Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Finish [book:Virgil Wa..."

Great list! I so loved Watership Down! And Dracula is one of my favorites. I've read it three times. Good luck!

I'm hoping to finish off at least The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Cuckoo's Calling this weekend. That may be all I can hope for, since GenreLand book club meets Saturday night and Sunday I'm driving down to Denver for VE Schwab's Vengeful tour. Though I suppose if her signing line is long, I'll have a copy of Vengeful handy to occupy myself with. :-)

Michelle wrote: "Great list! I so loved Watership Down! And Dracula is one of my favorites. I've read it three times. Good luck!..."

This is my first time reading both! I'm almost done listening to Watership Down. I was not expecting it would be this intense! lol. I've already gone grocery shopping so I plan to sit on the couch and finish reading The Brilliant Death.

I finished The Brilliant Death and it's a crisp, sunny day so I'm taking Virgil Wander outside with me!

And I have already deviated from my plan. I listened to some more of Children of Time and devoured V.E. Schwab's Warm Up, which is a prequel to Vicious.

Today I read 3 wonderful novellas:
--Horror
And -Sci Fi/Horror.
And
Great pre-Frightfall reading!

Elyse wrote: "I finished The Brilliant Death and it's a crisp, sunny day so I'm taking Virgil Wander outside with me!"

Sounds wonderful! Fall temperatures are finally appearing here in the South and I couldn't be happier. :)

Stina wrote: "And I have already deviated from my plan. I listened to some more of Children of Time and devoured V.E. Schwab's Warm Up, which is a prequel to [boo..."

Changing plans keeps you on your toes! lol Glad you're enjoying your reads.

Autumn Is Azathoth wrote: "Today I read 3 wonderful novellas:
--Horror
And -Sci Fi/Horror.
And [bookcover:Something Evil This Way Comes: Haunted ..."

Woot! These sound awesome. Glad you're getting some good reading in. :)

I finished listening to Watership Down yesterday.

I read chunks of Virgil Wander and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. Focusing on them today.

And I realized I also have to read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Saga, Vol. 2 today for Dewey's Bingo game!

I don't think I'll be finishing Dracula today! lol

Today I read Jinxed. Quite a neatly done story;
And listened to:
The Feast in the Abbey and
The Monkey's Paw

and worked on my thematic reading plan for Frightfall:
http://thehauntedreadingroom.blogspot...

Elyse wrote: "I finished listening to Watership Down yesterday.

I read chunks of Virgil Wander and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. Focusin..."

I need to check out that Bingo game. Probably too late now. :(

Autumn Is Azathoth wrote: "Today I read Jinxed. Quite a neatly done story;
And listened to:
The Feast in the Abbey and
The Monkey's Paw

and worked on my thematic reading plan f..."

The Monkey's Paw is such a great story!

Michelle wrote: "I need to check out that Bingo game. Probably too late now. :(..."

It's not! They're doing a new sheet this week and a new sheet next week so just start with this week's! :)

I finished Virgil Wander and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography and I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Saga, Vol. 2 yesterday!

Dracula will be postponed until November so I can focus on King! Even though it would obviously be perfect for an October read. lol

Annnnd this morning I have officially started Kingtober with Mr. Mercedes audio!

I will be reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown for this readathon. While it is not a horror genre, it is a mystery and thriller novel.

I have also started reading Different Seasons on Libby and will be starting my paperback of The Waste Lands when I get home from work.

I'm hoping to read 3 "frightful" books this October including : Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Witches of New York, and I'm not sure about the 3rd? Happy Fall everyone !

First two books finished:



Current read:

Yay, Kelley! Great job. I love the Gunslinger. Sadly, I've only made it to book three of the series, but hope to continue on in the future. So many books, so little time.

Kendra wrote: "I'm hoping to read 3 "frightful" books this October including : Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Witches of New York, and I'm not sure about the 3rd? Happy Fall everyone !"

Thanks for joining us! Enjoy! Happy Fall to you too...just wish the temperatures here would follow suit.

Cassie wrote: "I will be reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown for this readathon. While it is not a horror genre, it is a mystery and thriller novel. "

Perfectly fine! Everyone has their own level of scary. Hope you enjoy it and thanks for joining us!

Michelle wrote: "Yay, Kelley! Great job. I love the Gunslinger. Sadly, I've only made it to book three of the series, but hope to continue on in the future. So many books, so little time."

Oh you have to get them back to the top of your TBR! I would go back and reread the previous books each time a new one came out. Well up until books 5-7 came out anyhow. Since they came out back to back over a few months, I only reread up through book 4. I didn't need to worry about refreshing my memory with the last three so close together. One of my favorite things about this series though is that the Dark Tower world is connected to sooo many of King's books! Some are obviously connected (Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, Black House), but others have loose connections (Dolores Claiborne, Rose Madder). I need to re-find the list of connected books. Also in the front of most of his books, where they list all of his works, they notate which ones are linked to The Dark Tower.

Elyse wrote: "I finished Virgil Wander and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography and I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and [book:Saga, Vol..."

I used to LOVE those Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Books! I had several of them when I was younger.

Elyse wrote: "Woo I definitely need the Pre-Readathon to finish up my non-King books before Oct. 1!

My TBR:
Finish Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Finish [book:Virgil Wa..."

I have Watership Down in audio also. Though I still have never read the book. I remember watching the animated movie years and years ago. the Black Prince Rabbit terrified me! I had nightmares for a LONG time afterwards that the Black Prince Rabbit was going to come get me. Because of his role in the story and I was so young I still didn't fully understand death, I believed he was WHY the rabbits died. It took me a long time to understand he didn't cause the deaths.

Kelley wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Yay, Kelley! Great job. I love the Gunslinger. Sadly, I've only made it to book three of the series, but hope to continue on in the future. So many books, so little time."

Oh you ..."

This puppy right here: https://laughingsquid.com/the-stephen...

I'm starting The Waste Lands sometime this week. I read The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three last year.

Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Woo I definitely need the Pre-Readathon to finish up my non-King books before Oct. 1!

My TBR:
Finish Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Finish [..."

It's a dark book no matter what age! I can't believe it was directed at children, holy cow. I've never seen the cartoon movie and I think Netflix is remaking it sometime soon?

Elyse wrote: "Kelley wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Yay, Kelley! Great job. I love the Gunslinger. Sadly, I've only made it to book three of the series, but hope to continue on in the future. So many books, so little ..."

OMG, that gives me a headache just to look at it! LOL

Kelley wrote: "Elyse wrote: "Kelley wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Yay, Kelley! Great job. I love the Gunslinger. Sadly, I've only made it to book three of the series, but hope to continue on in the future. So many boo..."

lol I know, right?! It's so complicated!

Elyse wrote: "It's a dark book no matter what age! I can't believe it was directed at children, holy cow. I've never seen the cartoon movie and I think Netflix is remaking it sometime soon?"

They are? I hadn't heard that! I will have to watch it. Now that I'm sooo much older and I'm not afraid of the black rabbit anymore. LOL

Kelley wrote: "They are? I hadn't heard that! I will have to watch it. Now that I'm sooo much older and I'm not afraid of the black rabbit anymore. LOL..."

It's supposed to be on Netflix in "late 2018." A 4-part miniseries. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5670764/

Two more books finished today. One is borderline qualifying, but I'm counting it. :-)

- this is the borderline book since it's sort of a thriller, but not quite.

- JD Horn became a fast favorite of mine with his Witches of Savannah trilogy a few years ago. Great spooky stories.

I read Stephen King's Cookie Jar: A Short Story yesterday and am almost done reading Blockade Billy and listening to Mr. Mercedes.

I finished listening to Mr. Mercedes on Friday and now I'm almost 75% through listening to Finders Keepers!

I finished reading Blockade Billy on Friday. I'm about halfway through The Body, the third story in Different Seasons. I hope to finish it tonight.

I also started The Waste Lands but I'm not very far into it at all.

Elyse wrote: "I finished listening to Mr. Mercedes on Friday and now I'm almost 75% through listening to Finders Keepers!

I finished reading Blockade Billy on Frid..."

gotta love Stephen King for a fright a thon!

I finished another book last night:

This one got a lot of mixed reviews on GR but I enjoyed it a lot and subsequently bought the rest of the series.

Currently reading:
on Kindle and
,
, and
in audio

I finished another one today:


Currently reading:
on Kindle and
and
in audio

I finished listening to Finders Keepers and immediately started listening to End of Watch! I've had some spoilers as to the end of the trilogy but I'm still interested to see it all happen!

I did finish reading The Body last night and now I'm on the last story of Different Seasons, The Breathing Method.

I'd forgotten about this group, I don't know why it's been so hard for me to get into the Facebook group and for some reason when I stopped blogging I also stopped keeping notes in my journal so I have not been able to keep track of my reading but I just joined the challenge and I think that is definitely going to help me.



Currently reading: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Listening to: The House of Hades

Another one bites the dust...

I finished another one today:


Currently reading:
on Kindle and
and
in audio

Yes, another one down already

I finished this one today:


Currently reading:
on Kindle,
, and
in audio

"another one done, another one down, another one bites the dust"

I finished this one today:


Currently reading:
on Kindle and
in audio

I've been uninterested in the internet the past few days but I'm halfway through listening to End of Watch, I finished reading Different Seasons, and I started reading Joyland today.

Elyse wrote: "I've been uninterested in the internet the past few days but I'm halfway through listening to End of Watch, I finished reading Different Seasons, and I started reading ..."

A Stephen King Marathon! I read Different Seasons YEARS ago so don't remember very much about it. Joyland I read a few years ago and really liked. And End of Watch I read as soon as my library got it in audio after it was released. :-)

I've read quite a few short stories over the last couple days. All of these were whispersync ready so I went back and forth between ebook and audio as necessary. If you are looking for some really good short horror/thrillers, the Dark Corners collection from Amazon Originals is good. They are also free to borrow for Prime members.








Currently reading:
eBook and audio
on my Kindle
in audio in the car

Kelley wrote: "A Stephen King Marathon! I read Different Seasons YEARS ago so don't remember very much about it. Joyland I read a few years ago and really liked. And End of Watch I read as soon as my library got it in audio after it was released. :-)..."

I'm almost done with End of Watch. I kind of want to reread The Outsider because it really is a companion to the trilogy. I wish I had known that before I read it. Spoiled the trilogy!

Kelley wrote: "I've read quite a few short stories over the last couple days. All of these were whispersync ready so I went back and forth between ebook and audio as necessary. If you are looking for some really ..."

I added those to my Prime Reading list but I already have 10 titles "checked out." lol

I finished reading Joyland yesterday and I just finished listening to Road Rage: Two Novellas for my Bingo for Dewey's. Now I really need to buckle down with The Waste Lands!