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Group Read-A-Thon October 2015
Words
A-H
Afraid Cat Deadly Games
Apples Chocolate Deathly Ghost
Asylum Cauldron Decaying Ghoul
Autumn Cemetery Demon Gloomy
Axe Chilling Devil Goblins
Bats Cloak Dracula Goosebumps
Beware Clowns Enchantment Grave
Bewitched Cobwebs Evil Graveyard
Bitter Coffin Eyeballs Grim Reaper
Black Cold Fangs Grisly
Black cat Corpse Fear Groans
Blood Costume Party Films Gruesome
Boils Creaking Fog Hair Raising
Bones Creepy Footsteps Halloween
Boo Crow Frankenstein Haunted
Broom Curse Freak Hell
Broomstick Danger Frightening Hocus Pocus
Candles Dark Frogs Horror
Candy Dead Full moon Howling
I-Z
Incantation Phantom Silence Tomb Stone
Jack O Lantern Poison Sinister Trapped
labyrinth Poltergeist Skeleton Treat
Lightning Possessed Skulls Trees
Magic Potions Slime Trick
Masks Pumpkin Souls Undead
Midnight Quiver Spells Unusual
Mist Rats Spiders Vampire
Moans Rattling Spirits Vile
Monster Raven Spook Warlock
Moon Rituals Storms Warts
Movies Rotting Strange Werewolves
Mummies Ruins Supernatural Whispers
Nightmare Scary Sweets Wicked
Noises Screaming Terror Witch
October Scythe Threatening Wolves
Owls Secluded Thrill Woods
Panic Shadows Thunder Yelling
Paranormal Shrieking Toads Zombies
Reserved
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
Connection: It's a collection of stories about witches
Colleen's Tally: 10 points
Perks' Tally: 1 book
All the Light We Cannot See
Connection: The Sea of Flames is cursed.
Colleen D's Tally: 10
Perks' Tally: 3
The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
Connection: A group of crazy Goblins attack the house of one of the main characters.
Silvia's Tally: 10 points
Perks's Tally: 4 books
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Connection: The main character has paranormal abilities
Malaika's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 5 books
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer
Connection: A dead frog is shoved at the main character's face; there is a wizard in the story who uses magic to keep the book from opening.
MB's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 6
Gil's All Fright Diner
Connection: almost everything on the list, but I'll choose Eyeballs, for the old god's eye peering through as it begins to pull itself through the hell gate.
Lynda's Tally: 10
Perk's Tally: 7
A Darker Shade of MagicConnection: Title includes "Magic" and "Dark". Also the book is about how blood magic allows the main character to teleport to different versions of London. This results in the main character bringing back a cursed stone that creates shadow-like creatures.
Heather's Tally: 10
I think is just 10 points max each book, even if we can find many connections words in the book. Is that right?
Silvia wrote: "I think is just 10 points max each book, even if we can find many connections words in the book. Is that right?"Ah. I did not realize this. Edited my post.
Heather wrote: "Silvia wrote: "I think is just 10 points max each book, even if we can find many connections words in the book. Is that right?"Ah. I did not realize this. Edited my post."
Oh, That's how I understand...but I was actually asking :D
Paper Towns by John Green
Connection: Quentin returns often to a secluded minimall which is full of cobwebs. He believes he will find Margo's corpse.
MB's Tally: 20 points
Perk's Tally: 9
The Spy Wore Red: My Adventures as an Undercover Agent in World War II by Aline Countess of Romanones
Connection: The spies are in constant danger in this true account of a female spy in the 1940s.
Laura's Tally: 10 points
Perks' Tally: 10
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Connection: The story is about a little girl who is possessed by a demon.
Silvia's Tally: 20 points
Perks's Tally: 11 books
Silvia wrote: "I think is just 10 points max each book, even if we can find many connections words in the book. Is that right?"Yes that's right :)
The Hanged Man by P.N. Elrod
Connection: The protagonist is called to a murder to try and "read" the crime scene and corpse
Karen's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 12 books
by Josephine AngeliniConnection: Paranormal
Michelle's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 13 books
(Do comics count?)
The Dead Girls of Hysteria HallConnection: Asylum, ghosts, demons (just to name a few)
Christina's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 14 books
Michelle wrote: "(Do comics count?)"
Only if they meet the word count of 25,000 (so most probably wouldn't)
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Connection: Mainly set on an outback Australian property with lots of deadly potential
Karen's tally: 20 points
Perk's Tally: 15 books
The Light Between Oceans
Connection: The main characters live in a very secluded place.
Emily's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally: 16 books
Emily wrote: "This is a reread, is that ok?"Rereads are fine as long as they are read / finished in the challenge month.
Especially when reading an awesome book like that ;)
Oh, I was thinking books just had to be finished in October, not read fully in the month, for some reason, but that doesn't make sense for a read-a-thon. So I had to delete Days of Blood and Starlight, unfortunately. Edited The Light Between Oceans post.
I don't think they do, Emily. I meant read or finished. I'll let Karen be the final say on that though, since the read-a-thons are her idea.
As it is a group read-a-thon. Just the finished date counts so you can include it Emily ;)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Connection: This is a stretch, but the book had a couple of Sweets in it. Also, it was a Treat to get into the exclusive dinner cooked by Eva.
Colleen D's Tally: 20
Perks' Tally: 17 books
Lol well done Coleen
Lol Karen - I wish I were a faster reader and it wouldn't be a problem! Definitely have to be mindful of what challenges I can do. Reading Doctor Sleep next so....;)
Ok, awesome!
Days of Blood & Starlight
Connections: Many characters are monsters (or at least monstrous) and are referred to as devils and demons
Emily's Tally: 20 points
Perk's Tally: 18 books
Sounds like a plan Colleen! I have a netgalley book set in a nursing home next ... This will likely be a BIG stretch lol
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Connection: Vampires
Christina's tally: 20 points
Perk's tally: 19 books
I Am Legend Connection: Cemetery- he visits his wife's crypt
Christina's tally: 30 points
Perk's tally: 20 books
@Christina, if you use the same connection word that you used in a previous of your books, you can just add 5 points.
Connection: Witch
Donna's tally: 10 points
Perk's tally: 21 books
Silvia wrote: "@Christina, if you use the same connection word that you used in a previous of your books, you can just add 5 points."Thank you. I must have missed that rule. I changed it to a new connection word.
Colleen wrote: "
Revival by Stephen King
Connection words: Dark; shadows; cruse; demon; horr(ific); Devil; Terr(ifying) - Descripition
thrill(er); Paranor..."
I am really sorry, but it looks like I'm too obsessed with rules ... you know, Collen, according the rules above it's just 10 points max each book, even if we can find many connections words in the book and if you repeat the connection word between your own books, 5 points max.
;)That's true Silvia.
Maybe next time I'll remove the limit of one word per book. What do you guys think?
Karen wrote: ";)That's true Silvia.
Maybe next time I'll remove the limit of one word per book. What do you guys think?"
We could use something like "find at least one word to connect your book to Halloween (or any other holiday)" and eliminate the points and just leave it like in the others read-a-thon that we have just a counter of books for us and one for Perks.
Karen wrote: ";)That's true Silvia.
Maybe next time I'll remove the limit of one word per book. What do you guys think?"
That would be fun to be able to find more than one connection next time :) But I might suggest that there should still be a limit on how many connections you can find (like say maybe five per book or something) because we still want the winner to have read a number of books, in my opinion, not just one book that has every connection, for example.
Rebel Belle
Connection: The MC gains supernatural fighting abilities.
Emily's Tally: 30 points
Perk's Tally: 23 books
You're Never Weird on the InternetConnection: Half the book is about playing video "games"
Heather's tally: 20 points
CoralineConnection: The black cat who helps Coraline in the "other" world.
Lynda's Tally: 30 points
Perk's Tally: 26 books
Devoted in DeathConnection : There are several dead people in this book
Laura's Tally: 10 points
Perk's Tally 27 books
Conviction of a WitchConncetion: NIGHTMARE - the main character had nightmares
Donna's Tally: 20 point
Perk's Tally:28 books
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As a group let's see what we can read in the month of Octoberand have a Read-A-Thon with a twist!
EXAMPLE
Post 1:
Kristie posts:
Conection: “Horror� (genre)
Kristie's tally � 10 points
Perks Group tally - 1 book
Post 2:
Karen Posts
Connected by: "Graveyard� (title)
Karen's tally: 10 points
Perks group tally: 2 books
Post 3:
Kristie posts:
Connected by: The main character, Lisbeth, is pretty scary
Kirstie's tally: 20 points
Perks group tally: 3 books
Post 4:
Karen posts:
Connected by: I can’t find a word to connect to, but I’m sure poppies bloom in October! (5 points)
Karen's tally: 15 points
Perks group tally: 4 books
NOTE: Books should be at least 100 pages or 25,000 words for children's books (check at arbookfind.com) to count.
Please just remember to check the group tally of the book ahead of you and add up the tally as you post