 So I have a stupid amount of books on a bad chiller. It's happening. I'm tingling fiction at its best. My nemesis has struck again. So as you may or may not know, October's are a time for much reading for me because I save all my October spooky reads for October. So I have a stupid amount of books. The books I have in front of me here are not even all the books that on my TV are because I have a couple that I don't have yet either because they're on their way or because they're about to be published and aren't quite yet. So um yeah I don't think it's the amount I think last year I had like 30 books on my TVR. I think this year it's like I don't know how many it is. 24? Let's drop the right total. Okay so before I forget them we're gonna do the ones that I don't have yet. So the ones I don't have yet um the first one is uh not published yet it's like I'm right about to be. That is dowry of blood. I mean technically it was published self-published but the like traditional publishing of it which is what I've pre-ordered comes out like next Tuesday I want to say like the first Tuesday of October. So that and then I ordered from Europe Vita Nostra because everyone not everyone obviously but I had a bunch of people comment on my dark academia video saying sounds like you should read Vita Nostra and I was like all right well y'all think this I mean how bad could it be. And then kind of also related to the dark academia video I really loved special topics in calamity physics by Marisha Pestle so her uh one of her other books night film um I've decided now I want to read and this is the perfect time to do it. So night film is unrooted to me. Okay but the rest of the books I have in physical form oh also very quickly you will expect to see the wolf on STBR but it will not be here because my nemesis has struck again. That's right Alan from the library of Alan's Andrea has decided to sabotage this read-along by joining it. For his sake we have changed the schedule to be November December January because we are accommodating. It's okay Alex and I are still reading a book together this month never fear. So without further ado here are the rest of the books that I'm going to attempt to get through in October. First up this was on my TBR last year didn't get around to it this year I'm gonna do it that's Carrie by Stephen King. It's super short I also put this on my TBR before I knew that I would have any other Stephen King book on my TBR that wasn't up to me but it is it's super short it's such a classic I just you know this one is it should be doable right it's so short it's so short. Next up Mara and I are continuing we've decided to just get through the rest of the Rainwild Chronicles through the end of the year so last month through the first Rainwild Chronicles book we have three more there's three more months left in the year so we're just doing it. So next up is Dragon Haven and when we finish the Rainwild Chronicles in January we hope to do another live to kind of check in on our Realm of the Elderlings journey but I'm excited I did really like the first one as you'll hear when I do my wrap-up. So far so good so I'm excited to continue on with Dragon Haven. Next up I have kind of a three in one that is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I have I'm holding two books here and it's really kind of three so my patrons and I voted on our next buddy read and so they've chosen for this month and next month to read Frankenstein and then next month the Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein and I've read Frankenstein a couple times before so I'm rereading it now but I decided because I don't have anything else to do this month to read the so if you don't know there's a few different versions of Frankenstein so there's the one that most people read nowadays which is the the edited version that Mary Shelley herself updated a few years after the publication of Frankenstein in response to even back then readers had problems with books and then they went back and changed them so in response to some people's problems she changed the story and then republished it and that's the version most people read so I'm going to be reading the the updated version that everyone knows and is the one that most people reference and most things are based on again but also I've decided I found this copy this edition that is not just the original Frankenstein as it was originally published by Mary Shelley it is also the original original Frankenstein before it was published before Percy Shelley her husband made changes to it so in this edition there you can kind of see where the pages get darker the first one of well I'll figure it out when I read it but one of these versions is basically the way Mary Shelley originally wrote it and the other one is the updated version that was the first way that was originally published but instead of just having it printed straight up it's it's printed where you can see which parts Percy Shelley added were suggested to be changed so it is that original version but where you can see what he did to change it so I'm going to try to do all three you can compare and contrast and just live my best Frankenstein loving life this month next up I have the birds by Daphne Demaurier this copy you can only get it as a bind up with that and other stories I aim only to read the birds I maybe I'll read the others too but that's what's on my TBR officially is just the birds because I've never read it and I would like to see the movie around this time of year and I've been reading quite a bit of Demaurier the last couple years so I thought I'd do the birds this month because it's also quite short next up is the other Stephen King book that I have on my TBR which is not my fault my patrons have voted on this to be the book that I read and vlog for them and that is Salem's Lot by Stephen King which is super long I have had a habit a kind of a bad habit in the last few months of kind of when I vlog books for my patrons kind of doing it all in one day where I just like marathon read the book and do a like one day vlog of reading it I don't think I can really do that that's Salem's Lot but we shall see it'll be an experience unabashed chiller spine tingling fiction at its best I mean here's the season uh next is a nice nice short book and it's my first teaking fisher book and that is what moves the dead mainly because I've been seeing teaking fish around a lot and all of the books by teaking fish are intriguing me this cover the most intrigues me and this cover the most speaks to me of like fall october spookiness of darkness and it's I didn't even know how short it was when I picked it so I'm very glad that I picked a short one I don't I think all king fishers books are I don't think any of them are toned but anyway I'm this is a very pretty little book the end pages the naked cover I'm quite stoked about this I really hope I like it because I would like to keep this pretty little book next up is a continuation on from last year last year I started the Procure Your Children series I didn't love it but I have a bunch of them so I kind of want to keep going I didn't hate it it was it's the right time of year for it they're cool um so I'm going to read the second Procure Your Children book um Hollow City the second novel of Miss Peregrine's Procure Your Children by ransom rings we'll see how I do if I like this even less than the first one that I might give up but the first one was like okay it wasn't like my favorite thing ever the concept of using the photographs the way that he does is intriguing it's certainly aesthetically appealing to me the look of these books and the way they integrate the photographs yeah I'm gonna give this a go next up is a book that I kind of saw around a little bit but then my friend recommended it to me and said it is actually quite good um and that is These Fleeting Shadows um which is a YA I guess horror thriller kind of book the cover basically looks to me like a haunting of Bly Manor which I love I love the haunting of Bly Manor much better than the haunting of Hill House you can fight me on that but yeah so I don't really know too much about it other than that there seems to be a gothic house and that there will be chills and thrills and that's really all I need in order to decide to read next up is a bit of a surprise because unless you follow me on Goodreads um and I haven't posted my wrap up yet but I read last month just because the mood struck um the inheritance games then I went ahead and bought the second and third books and it feels like the right time of year for these books it's just like they're just really hitting the spot for me or at least the first one did so I went ahead and grabbed the second one and put it on my TBR the Hawthorne Legacy the second and the inheritance games and I mean the vibes of the first one were immaculate so that's really all I'm looking for from this just to live my best Knives Out life continuing the trend of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein um I'm excited that we have another book from the Trio Cynthia Hand Brody Ashton and Jody Meadows they um moved on from the Lady Janies and moved on now to the Lady Mary's they did my contrary Mary haven't read it yet but I have it but the second Mary they're tackling is Mary Shelley herself in My Imaginary Mary which is a speculative humorous retelling of the life of Mary Shelley. Their style of humor has so far quite worked for me so I'm looking forward to this. Next up is a book that I feel like this is the right time of year for also and it's a very pretty book so I hope I like it that is Gallant by V.E. Schwab she's been quite missed for me lately but hopefully I'll like this I have also the Alcret edition of it it's still wrapped in its plastic which is a very cool edition of it so I hope I like it but if I don't I managed to forget a book in my stack so I just went and grabbed it um so whatever I said my book count total was it's one more than that and that is Confessor by Terry Goodkind because we were doing the Sword and Truth read-along and this is next I've never read this we are now into books that I've never read before last month was the first one that I've never read before this is now the next one that I've never read before so that in and of itself is exciting to me but speaking of read-alongs we're also continuing the first law read-along with the Trouble with Peace and this book is so good this is going to be my third time reading it and I'm so excited we'll be talking about it on the chapter three podcast um and I am stoked next up I have the Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling which is another book that just I saw floating around the cover had always intrigued me and this seemed like the right time of year for it I know next to nothing about it except that it says don't read this one alone at night you know what what more do you need so yeah I literally don't almost nothing about this except that the cover is cool and it's a dark book so I hope I like it uh next I have a whole bunch of book in the monthbook books um because I do always read my previous month's book in the next month but also I have some that from previous months and years that I just want to get through slash this is the time of year for that so last year I read Practical Magic and I hated it but I had already gotten probably I think I got it at the same time because I got Practical Magic because it had just come out the prequel book that takes place in like I think the witch hunting year like the 1600s but it's a it is prequel to Practical Magic magic lessons um but I believe like I mean it's such a gap of years that I don't think like you really need to be super familiar with Practical Magic because I mean I did read it but I don't remember too much about it except I hated it but I have it so I'd like to read it this is the time of year for this so if I don't like it now I'll never like it and I would if I like it great and if not then I can get rid of it then a book that I've put on my October TV offer like several years in a row now and I just never get to it and this year we're doing it this is the year it's happening Mexican Gothic my Sylvia Moreno Garcia I have never read a book by Sylvia Moreno Garcia I have two I have this one and also from Book of the Month I have Gods of Jade and Shadow I keep putting that on summer TBRs and not doing it maybe next summer will be the year depending on how this goes but I'm excited at the very least to finally freaking read this book I feel like it's haunting me next up is the not just a Book of the Month Club book I mean it is one but um the Blades and Bodice River's Book Club that because yes that's right we're back it's the Halloween show we are dressing up for it and we're reading a spooky book for it and we will be gathering over on Bethany's channel to talk about the Hacienda by Isabel Kanyas and I don't know too much about this except that I believe it's kind of gothic-y but also with like a Hispanic flair but that's literally all I know about it and then that it's what Bethany picked so so I got it I'm gonna read it and then uh the last Book of the Month web book is it uh it was just my pick from last month although it does seem like appropriate for the season and that is Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen now why did I think it was appropriate for the season blah blah blah I don't know I remember thinking that it would be delightful and atmospheric magical realism blah blah blah like it doesn't seem like super dark or anything but it it seems I don't know magical realism seems like a fall type of thing doesn't it maybe not I don't know I have to read it because those are my rules so I'm reading it next up is a book that um I has intrigued me for a while but my friend actually sent it to me because she was like no for real like you should read this and I was like I'll add a tomorrow to her between we are that is Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro the cover is definitely giving Jonathan Strange a Mr. Norrell which is a book that I love and also my friend who sent me this book also loves that book again this has intrigued me for a while and it seems to have gotten mainly positive reviews and it seemed like the kind of thing that I would like it's Victorian England it's historical fantasy it's a dark labyrinthine world um it just it sounds like my cup of tea it is extremely long though which is unfortunate given my TBR but I am looking forward to it nonetheless next up is a book that I am reading with Alex because we agreed to this a while ago Jimmy has somehow gotten in his way out of this I guess he's just gonna miss out on the absolute joy that Alex and I will have in reading Empire the Vampire by J. Kristoff this book is also very very long but but it does have lots of pictures in it so you know it's a it's a picture book that's why it's so long it's not it's not even that much text right this book is massive I do I genuinely hope I like this I just think there's a very low chance that I do we'll find out and Alex and I will chat about it and we will all find out together how me and Alex felt about this edge lord of a book two more to go next up is a book that it's actually inspired entirely by Mara she and I were in a world hoppers video together where she mentioned this book and I was like that sounds amazing and it is Horror Store by Grady Hendricks I'd never heard of this but if you don't know this about me I love putting furniture together like genuinely I very much enjoy that activity and this is you know I sort of Ikea inspired somewhat I guess quirky and humorous horror book where it is multimedia that's why the book is kind of shaped like this and there's like furniture assembly instructions I'm told that like get increasingly more bizarre and more sinister and it just sounds like absolutely my kind of thing I don't know how good it'll be but the very least it'll be a unique experience so I'm excited about this and last but not least I have the shelf space book club because I've I will be co-hosting shelf space in October with Evie and Joanna and we will be reading The Child Thief by Braum I've had this on my shelf for a very long time I actually have a couple copies of it because people keep giving it to me I have three there for a second because it's it's Peter Pan but like dark so it's you know it sounds basically like my perfect thing right because I love dark stuff and I love Peter Pan and Peter Pan is already pretty kind of a kind of dark and sinister figure but I'm basically this hot topic Peter Pan but I've heard always excellent things about this and just Braum in general I've never read anything by Braum before I've always wanted to his the book's always looking incredible and I think it's appropriate that The Child Thief should be my first so I am very much looking forward to this and to discussing it on shelf space and those are all the books that I will be attempting to get through in October let me know with comments down below your thoughts and feelings about the books that I will be reading if you've read them if you want to read them if you've never read them if you have heard they're awful if you would like to make me prioritize some of them you know I post videos on Saturdays other random times but definitely Saturdays so like and subscribe to my patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you bye