Hello and Happy Saturday. Welcome back to the blog.
🛸 Would You Rather? 🛸
Watch a scary movie at the theater and then walk home alone, or walk alone through a cemetery at midnight?
Yes, I know this header is that NKOTB song (and if you know…you know), but it’s Day 18 of the 31 Days of Halloween in movies—and today I’m sharing some fun bookish games before the afternoon movie. We’re already past the halfway point in the month, and why is time flying? This is the only point where I want to slow things down. Friends… Make sure to get plenty of rest, check out a Halloween music playlist, and enjoy the sights, sounds, and scents of the season.
📖 Let the Bookish Games Begin 📖
First, I want to share a few links for some book trivia.
Halloween in Books (Children’s👻Tween’s- Titles)
The Guardian
Think Halloween, think monsters, vampires, witches, and werewolves! But how much do you know about scary ghouls and ghosts in fiction, from Harry Potter to Twilight? Try our skeleton-rattling quiz to find out if you’re a Halloween trick or treat.
A Booker Prize quiz for Halloween: 13 (Hard)
The Booker Prizes
Do you know your bone people from your old devils? Take a spooky trip down the ghost road with our Halloween-themed quiz.
Banned Book Quiz (Medium)
White Plains Public Library
Can you find the titles of the 22 banned or challenged books hidden in the story below? Test your knowledge.
📚 Classic Horror Novel Quiz by “Me” 📚
For the full experience with music, click this link: “Classic book quiz” by Wye.
Halloween Book-Bingo Challenge
🕯️ Some bewitching titles for the season 🕯️
From Goodreads
“Today’s collection has plenty of straight-up fantasy and horror on offer, as you might expect. But witches don’t like to be hemmed in, so you’ll find several hybrid and cross-genre stories: historical fiction, mythological retellings, supernatural crime fiction, queer romance, cozies, World War II stories, Appalachian detective mysteries, and the occasional YA verse novel steeped in Caribbean folklore.”
🔮 The Women of Wild Hill, Kirsten Miller 🔮
4.45 Rating ✨
There are places on earth where nature’s powers gather. Girls raised there are bequeathed strange gifts. A few have powers so dark that they fear using them. Such a place is Wild Hill, on the tip of Long Island. For centuries, the ghost of a witch murdered by colonists claimed the beautiful and fertile Wild Hill…until a young Scottish woman with strange gifts arrived. Sadie Duncan was allowed to stay.
🔮 The Last Witch, C.J. Cooke 🔮
4.51 Rating ✨
Helena Scheuberin should be doing what every other young wife is keeping house, supporting her husband, bearing his children. But when her husband’s footman, Leopold, with whom she was having an affair, is found dead, Helena is accused of killing him. Worse, she is accused of being a witch.
🔮 Human Rites, Juno Dawson 🔮
4.23 Rating ✨
With Her Majesty’s Royal Coven in shambles and the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the sisterhood of friends and witches must find a new way of putting together the pieces if (wo)mankind is to stand a chance, in this final chapter to Juno’s “irresistible” series (Lana Harper)
🔮 The Witches Orchard, Archer Sullivan 🔮
4.04 Rating ✨
A ninth-generation Appalachian herself, Archer Sullivan brings the mountains of North Carolina to life in The Witch’s Orchard, a wonderfully atmospheric novel that introduces private investigator Annie Gore. In the shadow of the Blue Ridge, Annie begins to track the truth, navigating a decade’s worth of secrets, folklore of witches and crows, and a whole town that prefers to forget. But while the case may have been buried, echoes of the past linger. And Annie’s arrival stirs someone into action.
🔮 Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, Grady Hendrix 🔮
3.95 Rating ✨
There’s power in a book. They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
🔮 Rose of Jerico, Alex Grecian 🔮
3.96 Rating ✨
Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying.
All The Links
🎃 Check out the Week #1 Wrap UP 🎃
🎃 Check out the Week #2 Wrap UP 🎃
🍁🍂 🎃🍂🍁 Check out my Halloween Games here. 🍁🍂 🎃🍂🍁
Friends, thank you so much for hanging with me today. I hope you get the chance to take some of the quizzes listed or pick out a new title in the book challenge. Don’t forget to subscribe, and Happy Halloween!
