The Reading Challenge Group discussion

A single chapter? One novel? A collection of stories? Whatever and however much you’re planning to read in our Halloween readathon, post it all here!

Our October Readathon will take place just in time for Halloween and will be running from October 24th to the 31st. Here you can post your list of what you would like to read for the week.

Don't forget to sign up for the event here if you haven't done so already.

I'm doing a monthly readathon and has read three books so far.

The haunting of hill house, hell house, and zombie con are all pretty good read. Finishing jane slayre tonight and will go from there. I'm doing my all hallow's read readathon all month.

Here's my list for the Thon:
The Body (144 pgs); READ Sun. 10/26/14
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons (181 pgs)
The Pit and the Pendulum; READ FRI 10/24/14, (44 pgs.)
The Tell-Tale Heart; READ FRI 10/24/14, (31 pgs.)
The Turn of the Screw
The Yellow Wallpaper actually read in July
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?; READ Sunday, 10/26/14, (18 pgs.)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find; READ SAT 10/25/14 (20 pages)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe; READ FRI 10/24/14 (40 pgs.)
The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe; 10 pages; READ SAT 10/25/14 (10 pgs.)

And two more:
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Invisible Man

And:
The Haunting of Hill House


DAILY LOG
Friday 10/24
- The Raven 40 pages
- The Tell-Tale Heart 31 pages
- The Pit and The Pendulum 44 pages
- Frankenstein started on pg. 57 - pg. 80 = 23 pgs.
- The Body 7 pgs.
Total for Friday = 145 pgs.
Saturday 10/25
- Frankenstein pg 80 - pg 99 = 19 pages
- The Body pg 9 - pg 77 = 68 pages
- The Black Cat 10 pages
- The Charioteer pg 97 - pg 114 = 18 pages
- A Good Man is Hard To Find 20 pages
Total for Saturday = 135 pgs.
Sunday 10/26
-Frankenstein pg 99 - pg 109 = 10 pages
-The Body pg 77 - pg 144 = 68 pages
-The Charioteer pg 114 - pg 163 = 49 pages
-Where are you going, Where have you been? 18 pages
Total for Sunday = 145 pages

Here's my list:
The Shining
Doctor Sleep
Pet Sematary
Ticktock

Melissa. That's an insane list!

Well, I read 2 of the books I was planning on reading for the readathon last night... Looks like I'll have to make a new list!

I'm not planning on reading anything in particular. I'll just try to read as much from my TBR pile as possible!

I'll try to get these in:
Rage
Full Dark, No Stars
Frankenstein
Murder on the Orient Express
Mile 81

I have no hope of even getting through all of these, but my list of choices are as follows: (I have chosen to read horror, gothic, and thriller genres, including some creepy mysteries):

Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Complete Stories and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe

That is certainly an ambitious list, Lucy!

I can wholeheartedly recommend The Woman in White and The Turn of the Screw! Loved them both!

Lucy wrote: "I have no hope of even getting through all of these, but my list of choices are as follows: (I have chosen to read horror, gothic, and thriller genres, including some creepy mysteries):

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Lucy, I like your list!

Holly wrote: "Melissa. That's an insane list!"

It will be fun to see what actually gets read. Did you decide what your alternative plan for reading is yet?

Yeah, updated it on the general October thread, but not this one. I have a bit more time on my hands at the moment because all my lectures and seminars are rather introductory, so trying to fit in as much reading as I can now.

Anything left over on that list will be focused for the readathon! :)

I think I'll read Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and probably something light and fun like Lola and the Boy Next Door. :) I participated in a 2 weeks Read-A-Thon recently and read 4 1/2 books, so I guess 2 books should be enough for one week. Otherwise I go with a 3th book from my October list or TBR pile. Depending on what I feel like and how good I'm doing with my October picks :)

ill do a 8-book read-a-thon for just this week. on monday, ill go to my library but until then ill look up e-books online. ill update every time i finish a book. any suggestions on what to read???

I'm planning on doing the same thing I did in the September readathon - use the time to get through a bunch of my TBR books. It's just after my birthday as well so the sooner I clear the list, the sooner I can read my birthday books!
But anyways, a rough list because I'm probably gonna be crazy busy:

Tiger, Tiger
The Last Runaway
The Beltheron Pathway
Raiders' Ransom (or Flood Child, as it's known here)
And some of Wizard's First Rule

It is possible that I'll be trying to finish up any of the books I have planned for October, including the group reads Dracula or Frankenstein. But I've just discovered The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story by Louisa May Alcott which would complete October's mini-challenge with an American author for my personal Stars and Stripes challenge. Woohoo!

Have fun Renee! :)

Thanks Iasa! That looks like a great selection for the readathon!

The Yellow Wallpaper and A Good Man is Hard to Find are two of my favorite short stories! I need to think about reading some Southern Gothic.

Andrea wrote: "The Yellow Wallpaper and A Good Man is Hard to Find are two of my favorite short stories! I need to think about reading some Southern Gothic."

Andrea, may I recommend Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms? :)

I'm going to read stuff for my advanced training/uni in the first place, but at the same time I'm going to try and read the last two books on my October list. So The Sacrifice and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children it will be for me :)

Right, finally got a list. It will probably change and adapt though!

Heat Wave (re-read)
The House on the Strand
Love's Labour's Lost
Carmilla
Manhattan Transfer (Uni reading)

As you can see, I've kind of deviated from the horror genre, but I needed shorter books to reach my goal!

Another Nikki Heat fan? That just makes me grin!

Hell yes! I'm totally addicted to Castle!

Lol! Knew I liked ya! :D

I've read up to book 5 (Deadly Heat?) but now that the 6th ones out, I want to re-read them. What makes me laugh is the amount of Firefly references in them. The show that has never died....

A classic never dies :)

So for the rest of the month through November I will be doing ebooks on my ereader, ebook library books and that's it until my next trip to the local library. got some read for review ebook requests to get to as well. then doing the name of the wind by Patrick Rothfuss in December as a buddy read at the reading for pleasure book club with some reading challenges I am doing.

I bought the The Picture of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein for this cant wait to read them :)

Racing against the clock to make finish Little Women before the readathon. Final list:
Rage
Mile 81
Fahrenheit 451
The Invisible Man
Frankenstein

Haha! Yes! The Firefly references are great. So much great about them. I'm constantly impressed by the crossovers from the show that mirror in such a way that it seems the plausible extension of Castle's experiences "in real life." Plus all the inside jokes, both in show and print. So much fun!

I will open with Haunted. Then Heart-Shaped Box and The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

Amber wrote: "So for the rest of the month through November I will be doing ebooks on my ereader, ebook library books and that's it until my next trip to the local library. got some read for review ebook request..."

I have 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss on my shelf ready and waiting to be read but don't want to squeeze it in between my library books and this challenge so the buddy read would be ideal in December!

Books I'm reading for the Halloween readathon...

The Raven
Mortlock
A Monster Calls
Bellman and Black: A Ghost Story
The Supernatural Enhancements

I reckon that'll do but if I could squeeze one more in it would be...

The Girl with All the Gifts

Good luck everybody!

Topazriver wrote: "Amber wrote: "So for the rest of the month through November I will be doing ebooks on my ereader, ebook library books and that's it until my next trip to the local library. got some read for review..."

Awesome Topazriver, I'll be doing it as a buddy read at the reading for pleasure book club but will be happy to do it here too in the buddy reads section in December too. good luck with your reads!

Wow, most of you guys are reading so much! I'm not necessarily reading lots of horror; I decided to put my own 'spin' on the Halloween readathon by just participating as if it were any other readathon. Hopefully you guys don't mind!

The Impossible Knife of Memory
The Tragedy Paper
Pi in the Sky
Wonderstruck

Maybe there will be more, who knows! :) Will keep you guys updated!

Here's my list...

7 books, 8 days, and a long weekend. I might can pull it off!

The Hurricane Sisters
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
And the Mountains Echoed
Pigs in Heaven
Murder in the Oval Office
The Guardship
The Art of Racing in the Rain

Pat, The Art of Racing in the Rain is one of my favourite books! I hope you enjoy it...this is a must read (IMHO).

Updating my list, minus the links because of mobile:
Firesong
Operation Red Jericho
Tiger, Tiger
The Last Runaway
Flood Child / Raider's Ransom

My books aren't scary in the least. But here they are nonetheless.

1. The Good Girl
2. Can't Get Enough
3.A Very Special Love: A Heartwarming Collection of Mother's Day Romances

Whatever Else I can Find...this is a short list because I have so many books I can choose from.


Friday
-78 pages of The Good Girl
22 pages of A Very Special Love

Saturday
50 pages of The Good Girl
36 pages of A Very Special Love

Sunday
-30 pages of A Very Special Love
-75 pages of The Good Girl

Finished Angus Macbain and the Island of Sleeping Kings last night which was a pretty good read and will get to my other reads later today.

I have some Edgar Allen Poe audio recordings I'm planning to listen to at work
I've started a thriller/mystery called Wicked Girls & perhaps I'll squeeze in ine more book this readathon!

I only started last night (it's been that kind of week). I'm working with 3 possibilities:
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
A Monster Calls
Death Comes As Epiphany

Funnily enough, I am actually in the mood for something light and fun, so who knows - maybe I will switch directions!

My list
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Shining by Stephen King
Flowes for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
MissPeregrines Home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs
Unspeakable by Kevin O'Brien

Not horror, but I'd describe it as gothic and the macabre. Fun to theme read this month/week. Never done that before.

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
Don't Look Now (short stories of Daphne Du Maurier"
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Lots of love for Du Maurier in this group! :)

I've been reading Let the Right One In this week. I'll be finishing up tonight. If I have some time I may fit in a few Poe short stories.