 Hello fellow reading warriors and welcome to the first spooky video for this Halloween So I realized that I'm really late to the game and that I am filming this on October 10 So we've already over a week into October, but things have been a little busy at school lately But this video is going to be kind of my TBR for the next couple of weeks up until like Halloween spooky season I am going to as you can tell by the name of this video Going to participate in the spooktober read-a-thon I will have the announcement video linked down below The person who created it is Vanessa over at paper fairy So definitely be sure to check out the video for more of the instructions Because I will just be going through what I'm participating in so for a lot of these books I'm trying to get them all to be spooky, but not all of them are going to be Completely spooky or like completely fantasy, but we're gonna definitely try Let us get started I'm excited. Can you tell? So this read-a-thon is actually gonna be all month long Which is why I am late to starting the read-a-thon about the same time I have plenty of time to do it and the theme for the read-a-thon other than spooktober spooky October Halloween Is that it is a house party? It's a haunted house party The idea is that because of quarantine and the coronavirus We are not some of us are not able to go out and celebrate Halloween as we used to and so they're creating their own little bookish version all month long and they have had Instagram challenges and they have movie nights over Twitter So be sure to like check those out It is getting kind of late for those because they're only doing it for the first 13 days But hey, it's still cool to look at and still pretty like fun to see what unique ideas and concepts I came up for how they have it set up is that they have a bunch of different Activities and elements of the haunted house party that you can participate in and each Element has different activities which each has their own prompt So you can go through and you can choose from all different kinds of prompts and you can choose what you're going to do What book you're going to use to fulfill it and everything like that. So I will not be doing all the prompts I will just because I can't even if I was starting this on time. I wouldn't be able to do all the prompts So I'm just going to go through the ones that I've selected that I'm going to do But for a full list be sure to check out that announcement video over at paper parry by Vanessa The first thing the first element of this house party is obviously the costume contest costume party There are different kinds of costumes that you can do based off of what book you read The one that I have chosen is that I'm going to do a Fantasy costume and I'm going to read a fantasy book To complete that and I'm going to read before she ignites by Jody Meadows I meant to read this a little while back and I just didn't quite get to it But it is a very interesting fantasy Book about someone who finds out something that they shouldn't know and how that affects The story going forward. I'm not going to give very in depth reviews of these books because a I haven't read them yet. So I don't know it and be This is going to be a really long video. So I'm just trying to cut down But so this is what I'm going to read for my fantasy costume I'm hoping that there's a small romance element in here because one of the other prompts was be like part of a couple's costume and you would read a romance novel for it and I I want to do that but I want to do like fantasy one So I prioritize fantasy over romance, but I'm hoping that like this has a little bit of romance Then I managed to do a couple's cosplay or a couple's costume with my husband Not like he's going to be reading or anything, but just in my head So then next I'm going to move over to the refreshments table And I'm going to have a couple of different prompts at the refreshments table At this party. I'm so excited. I love food So I'm hoping to fulfill three of the refreshment prompts The first one being devil's food cake and the prompt for this one is to read a book with a mostly black cover And the book I have chosen for this is carol vol by Stephanie garber This is the first of a trilogy that the third one just came out and it was really big and really popular And it's kind of the idea of there is Carol vol which is this big Um celebration kind of party thing and there's this big game that happens But I think someone's younger sister gets kidnapped or the game takes it way too far So I'm excited to read that Then also I'm going to work my way over to the candy bowl. I mean come on It's halloween. You can't go through it and not have some sort of candy And the prompt for that one is to read a novella or a graphic novel And so I have decided to read in real life Graph novel by Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang. I'm excited to read this. I just bought this. It just came in the mail Um, and it's about this girl who's like super shy in real life But then like when she goes online she becomes this whole cool like badass person And so I am super excited to read that Um, just a quick little trip to the candy bowl and the final refreshment is eyeball soup Read a book with a cover. You can't stop eyeballing and for that I'm reading a book that I meant to read last year, but didn't get to so I'm going to read it this year and that is Dracula by uh By bram stoker and like You see this cover? You see like this cover for this edition. Oh, it's absolutely gorgeous. It It's perfect for halloween. It's a classic. It's dracula and the covers. It's gorgeous. So eyeball soup. Yum Next we're gonna move on to the dance floor And I have selected again three songs that I am just gonna boogie it during and just like have a great time And the first one is going to be the monster mash. Of course, how can you not boogie during the monster mash? And so for dancing for the monster mash, you have to read a book with a monster in it And I I don't think I'm stretching it But I'm going to read the summoning by kelly armstrong This features a girl who can see ghosts. So the monster that I'm going for are Ghosts in this book. So after that is going to be the song I put a spell on you another good classic song that I love And for that it's to read a book with magic because you know spells magic makes sense And so for that one, I'm going to read spin the dawn. I I know there's magic in this. It's yeah, like everyone's been saying it's project runway meets Mulan And it's by elizabeth wim And she basically has this magic pair of scissors that helps her create amazing beautiful pieces So I put a spell on you literally on the clothing that you're wearing Ha ha get it And lastly, I'm going to jam out to the song superstition Just as a tribute to my father For without him. I probably wouldn't care for the song. And so the prompt for that one is to Read a book based off of folklore or mythology And so I am finally going to read a song of rights and ruins by rosa and a brown This features a west african mythology and I'm super excited to read about it because I don't know I know a little bit but not a lot about it And I definitely want to read more and so I feel like this book is just gonna be it's gonna be great So those are the three songs that I am going to read books to Have fun with and then lastly are the festivities that we'll be putting on So the other activities at the party and out of those I have selected two that I'm going to partake in the first one being Carva jack-o-lantern And the problem for that is read a book with a face on the cover And I had plenty of options for this one, but I decided to go with star daughter by sveta sakrar because obviously face For this jack-o-lantern. I'm so sorry for the glare on everything The apartment that I live in gets majority of its light from the windows that are right across the way But then that means there's a lot of glare like in my glasses on shiny books So I'm going to read star by star daughter by sveta sakrar And this book is about a girl who is Half star half human and she ends up either she injures or someone injures her father And the only way to heal him is with star magic And so she has to ascend to the sky and ask for help to heal her father And then she ends up going into this competition Or the stars make her do something dangerous and fun and this is based off of more new mythology So it could also work for superstition But I wanted to try and not double up on prompts So I do have one book per prompt But you know if I end up like not getting to it, then I can definitely double up I still want to so those are Hold up So those are all the books on the tvr for spooktober and it's my tvr However, I will quick mention that there is one more book that I want to get to this spooky season And that is catherine's house by elizabeth thomas. This is a dark academia Um, basically you if you get in you sign the four years of your life to them and kind of do whatever But then your promise amazing success afterwards. So like Yeah, it's a dark academia. It's great for fall because academia. It's the first season It's fall school starts, but then it's like super dark. So it's great for spooky season So this I did not fit into one of the prompts for um spooktober, but it is another book that I really want to read So And so that is my ginormous tvr I am not going to read all of them just because before halloween at least like majority of them Like you can see came from like this top shelf And so like my bookshelf is Like there are just so many of the books So many books and a lot of them are pretty chunky. So I do not expect to read all of them But i'm definitely going to try and i'm probably going to keep reading them past october Just because so many of these books. I just really wanted to read anyway And so it's great that they were able to fit right into this booktober tvr readathon I'm going to try and read one book per festivity Um, so I can at least partake in everything so I can have my costume I can dance I can eat and I can do a festivity But I would like to try and do all the festivities all the eating food and all the dance songs that I want to But we'll just see because i'm already starting late And there are so many books and they're all so big and i'm also a full-time student with four jobs So we'll see how much I actually read but i'm seriously going to try I don't think i'm going to vlog Um, I I do really want to do a spooky vlog or a fall vlog Um at some point this season just because I don't know. I'm in the mood for doing a vlog, but Life is pretty busy right now. So I don't know how much bookish content there would be I did film Some footage of me buying some of the spooky Decorations and I might include that in a bookshelf tour or I might just put it as part of a Fall autumnal vlog in the future. So stay tuned for that because that's gonna be coming up And I will have another video of spooky recommendations So if you're sitting here trying to figure out your halloween tvr or if you're doing spooktober or if you're doing any other Like spooky readathons or you just want a spooky tbr Then I will have another video coming out decently soon Of my recommendations of what I've read in the past that were really good for this season So stay tuned for that and I'll honestly be easiest if you just subscribe for Getting notifications when those videos come out. So you don't even have to wait and look for it You'll just get a notification. So Subscribe hit the bell. You'll know when those come out. Feel free to like this video If you're also doing spooktober readathon or just trying to read spooky books this season Or if you actually like the video and don't be afraid to comment down below What books you guys are reading for this spooky season Also, if you have a tbr set or if you're a mood reader just whatever book you're reading now Or you want to read next because I would really love to hear from you guys and get some more recommendations Um, so with that, I'm going to wish you guys a happy spooky reading