I had a really busy weekend so I didn't have much of a chance to participate in the read-a-thon. My birthday was Friday so I was pretty busy doing birthday related stuff...you know how it is! I did finish
The Wedding Gift by
Kathleen McKenna. I'm planning on trying to finish
Dracula in Love by
Karen Essex and
Vampire Academy by
Richelle Mead. I think the read-a-thon ends at midnight, but I might keep reading...pull an all-nighter. The kids are on Fall break so I don't have to get up early in the morning!
I'm going to do all the mini-challenges in one post.
The first mini-challenge is from Jami at
YA Addict and it is to share a book that scared the crap out of us. This is an easy one for me.
It is
Hell House by Richard Matheson:
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death.
Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House.
I was in my late thirties when I read this, but, despite my age, I still get scared...like a little girl! This book is scary in a creepy, subtle way. It had me jumpy and listening to the quiet for noises. There is also a movie from the seventies...I think it's called
The Legend of Hell House. It was pretty creepy, but the book was much better, of course!
The next mini-challenge is hosted by Gaby at
Oh My Books! and it is to share the costume we're wearing for Halloween or, if we're not dressing up, what we would like to wear if we were.
I've been on an Eleanor of Aquitaine kick lately so I would pick something like this (in plus size, of course)...I had to really search for one with a wimpole!
Reece did really good. He ended up throwing several Christmas books in the mix. Yeah, he's a Christmas fanatic, like me!
Bella Legrossi is the messiest monster in all of Booville. Her slime is the slimiest and her grime is the grimiest. Alas, she is neighbors with Boris Kleanitoff, a persnickety ghoul so tidy he vacuums his vampire bats. What could ever bring these two together? Why, a hoppin' Halloween party, of course!
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are spending Halloween in Sleepy Hollow, home of the legendary Headless Horseman. They are going to sleep in an old cabin, take a haunted hayride, and check out the Old Dutch Church. That's where some people say they've spotted the ghostly horseman. But strange things start happening that don't seem to be part of the planned spooky fun. Is there a real Headless Horseman haunting Sleepy Hollow?
Trick or treat! Amelia Bedelia wants to help prepare for the big Halloween party, but how can she follow directions when nothing is as it seems? 
