Hey everyone:

So, I'm not gonna lie. I completely suck at life when it comes to updating my blog. No promises that I am going to be any better when it comes to future updates here. But, I can promise to at least consider to try ... and that's something, right?

So, yeah. Halloween! Since Hurricane Sandy royally messed up Halloween last year, I'm hoping this year will be twice as good. Any other NYCers out there? My costume is, yes, a Taco-Bell hot sauce packet. You know the costume I'm talking about! I hope everyone has a great time Trick-or-Treating, or Liquor-Treating, as my case may be.



Anyhoo...

The Broke & The Bookish Top Ten Books To Read During Halloween

1. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
This book has got to be at the top of almost everyone's list, right? The first short story, Guts, is seriously effed up. But, you can't help but read and read and read some more. And there's another story in there about a test CPR dummy that still gives me chills every time. I think the scariest bits of life are the things that humans are capable of. And that's why Haunted is at the top of my list, and not some typical ghost story.

2. Curses, Inc.
I remember this book had a particularly disturbing short story about a boy who lives inside a giant's tooth...

3. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
These books were awesome!!! Also, they were the cause of many sleepless nights for a younger (and maybe not so younger) Mary.

4. Harry Potter
Who doesn't love an excuse to read about witches and wizards and magic, right? As if anyone actually needs an excuse to read HP though!

5. Lapham's Quarterly
I'm obsessed with this publication at the moment. Just finished Death and starting on Magic Shows.

6. Fifty Shades
Is anything scarier?

xoxo
MP