 spooky, scary, scary, ten centimeters down your spine. It's Halloween time. Hey guys and welcome back to my channel. As I just said, it's almost Halloween time. I mean, it's the beginning of October, which means it's just Halloween season in general for me, although for me and my roommate, Halloween season started in the middle of September. That's when we started to decorate our dorm. But point is, with October and Halloween coming up, is Spukathon is here. That's right. This is my Spukathon announcement video. First off, I want to start this with giving a huge thanks to Books and Lala, because she is the one who has been running this. She used to do it a couple other Booktubers the past couple years, but this year they are unavailable to do it. So Books and Lala, she is just doing it on her own now. So it's really hard to do a Bookathon, Readathon type thing, all on your own, but she has continued to take up the challenge. So I really want to give a great shout out and thank you to her for continuing to do it because it will be my first year participating, although I've been looking forward to doing it for a very long time. So yeah, I just wanted to give a big thanks to her and I'm really, really, really excited. It's one of my favorite things about fall is Halloween and the cooling temperature. And just the aesthetic, the colors, the sweaters, everything. So now I'm going to start with my TBR for this. For those of you who don't know anything about Spukathon, it is a week-long readathon that is in the middle to late October, so that as Halloween comes, you can still have time to do a Halloween type things, like going to haunted houses or going to parties or studying if you're still in school. So this year it is from October 14 to 20, so that's about a week long. And it's the week before Halloween a little more than. So it's really just a great way to get into the Halloween spirit by reading like spooky books. And I'm just so excited to share my list with you. She has prepared five reading challenges for this. She mentioned that there might be Instagram challenges, but you know she's not really sure and that makes total sense. It's really low key this year, which is kind of nice. So yeah, let's get into my TBR and I'll tell you what the challenges are. And of course there will be a link to her announcement video in my description down below. Now let's get into it. So the first challenge is kind of the challenge of the whole Spukathon as a whole. And she does this every year where challenge number one is read a thriller. I mean it's Halloween. Whether you're doing Spukathon or not, reading a thriller is just what you do. So the book I have chosen to fulfill this challenge is like a loose thriller. It's a little more like it's supposed to be a little more horror, but I don't really understand horror books and how they can't be like thriller. Like there aren't really jump scares or anything like that. But anyway, the book I have chosen to complete this one is actually Stalking Jack the Ripper right here from behind me by Carrie Munster Colo. I chose this one because I recently got it when I was at Bronson Noble and I have a whole thing about that in the haul that I did a few weeks ago. But anyway, I think this is a perfect one because it's also a historical fiction, which I don't normally read. And I mean it's Jack the Ripper classic, but it's also Stalking Jack the Ripper. I don't know too much about this book because I don't like spoiling books for myself or other people. And even if you're just giving a synopsis, I feel like sometimes I can be duty dailed. But the line on the back of the book is, I was the girl who loved the Ripper. I'll let that sink in for a minute, yeah. So this is going to be a great Halloween book about murder and just, ah, just the Victorian era have such good murder books. So this is what I'm using to fulfill the first challenge and moving on. For the second challenge, challenge number two, it's read a book with red on the cover. And I had a couple different options with this. And to be totally honest with you, I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do because I have two options. I am thinking of doing, I'm thinking of doing Scythe by Neil Schusterman. Scythe by Neil Schusterman obviously has red on the cover. And as you can see, it's literally about death. This book is about a society in where everyone has figured out how to cheat death and stay immortal. But just because you figured out how to do it doesn't mean you should. And so it's about the Reapers type characters, I don't know what they're called yet because I haven't read it, who go around and when your time is up, they will kill you so that you don't just live forever. Because some people really shouldn't live forever and so that's what they are all about. And so yeah, there's the red on the cloak as well as along sides. So I'm debating on this one because I've been really wanting to read it and I feel like it's a really interesting book to read for Halloween because it is about death. It's not necessarily traditional Halloween in terms of like monsters or vampires, witches or pumpkins or anything, but like it still counts. Like death, murder, it's still okay. The other book that I'm debating on reading is actually Frankenstein. Smooth, I know. It's Frankenstein because this is just a classic Halloween book and I like this one because here's the red of course, but it also has like a red, orangey like tint on the sprayed edges, which I think is really cool. It's a classic, it's a little shorter, so it's a little more likely that I'll be able to read in a week. But yeah, I mean we all know the story of Frankenstein. It's a classic, I actually haven't read it, but maybe this Halloween is the perfect time to read it for the first time. So I might go with this over the other one, but if I have time I would like to read them both. If I am running low on time then I'm just gonna quick read this one. Moving on to the third challenge is read a book with something spooky and the title and that can be open to interpretation. So like if you think something spooky, if you think witches, vampires, ghosts, you know anything Halloween related as spooky and then if it has that in the title then you know that's completely up to you. The book I have chosen to do is the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I chose that because I meant to read it a long time ago, but it's also a book I don't own and it's I'm gonna be reading it as an audiobook. I chose to read the graveyard book by Neil Gaiman and I'm actually going to listen to the audiobook version of it because I don't own it in print and I don't really know where libraries are yet on campus and off campus that would have this book. Plus I think I need to do at least one audiobook during this because you know five books in a week like it's pretty doable, but I also don't know what my homework load is gonna look like during that time. So I want to make sure that I keep up with school and so audiobooks are a great thing for college students. I have a hold on the book so hopefully the library will give it to me in time. It says I should have it in like what was I like two or three weeks, but we'll see. Hopefully they will. If not then I don't actually know what I'm going to do, but you'll figure it out when I start videotaping the blogs and putting the vlog up. So anyway, challenge number four is to read a book in a spooky setting. Again this is very open to interpretation of what kind of setting is spooky for you versus you know. And so for this challenge I've chosen to read House of Salt and Sorrow because I feel like a house where sisters are constantly getting murdered. I mean that's pretty spooky. To live in a house where people are dying doesn't have to be a mansion. There just has to be death and then immediately becomes spooky to me. I also recently bought this book and I was really excited because I got a really great deal on it at Target. So this to me adds a spooky setting. I've also heard that this book is a very creepy book and it's good for Halloween because it's creepy not necessarily scary, which I think is actually one of the best things about Halloween is that it can be creepy as well as scary. So I think this is just going to get that other aspect and that other side of Halloween to it. For the last challenge, challenge number five, it's to read a book you wouldn't normally read. Now first off I just don't normally read mysteries, thriller, horror, anything like that in the genre just because I don't have have a lot of friends that read them so I don't really get recommendations but also with mysteries I feel like there can be very hit or miss is like either I know who it is the entire time and it's frustrating because no one's figuring it out when it's super obvious and then I get annoyed at the book and I just refuse or I have no idea it's a bunch of twist endings and it's really great. I have a hard time finding those kinds of books. I always end up with the duds which is really annoying but I mean it's Halloween spirit I'm gonna get into it no matter what and so the book I have chosen you wouldn't normally read is actually Murder on the Orient Express. I'm having all the fun with this whole reaching behind me thing. It's Murder on the Orient Express. This is a book I wouldn't normally read because it's a mystery. I don't normally read mysteries outside of October just like I don't watch horror movies except for during October or like in preparation for Halloween. But it's another like classic which I like and I need to read more of. I wouldn't normally read this too much. I've been wanting to but now I finally have a good excuse to read it so and again it's Murder so it fits Halloween and everything spooky and creepy. So that is my TBR for the Spookathon Challenge this October 14th through 20th hosted by Books and Lala and I'm just super excited. If you guys are going to participate in it let me know down below by commenting what your TBR is if we're going to read any of the same books or if you're going to read a whole new different set of books. Also if you have any recommendations for me of any good mystery or good Halloween theme book or anything with a spooky title because if the graveyard book doesn't work out I'm going to be very disappointed and kind of blood in the water. So I need backup choices for that and I'm just having a very hard time choosing one because it's like there's so many great options but at the same time I don't know a lot of them so it's like there's nothing which is completely ridiculous because I know that's not true which is why I'm asking for your help. If you like this video feel free to give it a thumbs up and click the subscribe button so that you can actually see the vlog that I'll be taking throughout the Spookathon and then you'll know when it's uploaded hopefully it'll be very soon after the week ends but I'm just gonna do a one week long vlog. Yeah so yeah please subscribe thumbs up comment below tell me your favorite thing about Halloween Favorite Halloween book anything along those lines I would just really love to hear from you guys and I hope you have a happy spooky October be aware of every scary, scary thing that makes a huge difference down the spine.