ONTD Book Club discussion

Time for our October nominations!

In the Woods seems interesting!

Thinking of Halloween-ish things! Even though they're super short Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories is always fun (there are 3 in the series all just over 100 pages). Also The Haunting of Hill House is a classic!

do the suggestions have to be spooky suggestions?

Maybe Carrie? I've been meaning to read it and with Halloween and the new movie coming out, now seems to be a good time!

Sophie wrote: "In the Woods seems interesting!"

It's wonderful, but frustrating. I would read it again though!

Kirsten wrote: "Thinking of Halloween-ish things! Even though they're super short Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories is always fun (there are 3 in the series all just over 100 pages). Also The Haunting of Hill House i..."

We did
The Haunting of Hill House last year. It was great.

devochkazhenya wrote: "do the suggestions have to be spooky suggestions?"

Nope, they can be whatever you want. We've tended to pick spooky books the last 2 years in October.

Not a fan of IN THE WOODS! Maybe something classic, like...MISERY? :)

I am so here for Carrie, I'd like to nominate Let the Right One In since I absolutely loved the swedish movie.

I second in the woods, even though multiple people have said the ending leaves something to be desired :P

I'd be interested in let the right one in as well!

dracula is a classic, have we read that recently?

lol I just looked through the horror and paranormal sections and they all looked p terrible.. what about The Accursed? it looks like it might have potential..

Maybe House of Leaves?

Linh wrote: "Maybe House of Leaves?"

Yeah, that one looks so interesting and unique! I'd be down with Misery as well.

Linh wrote: "Maybe House of Leaves?"


We read that last year, too.


http://www.goodreads.com/group/booksh...

I'm going for Hemlock Grove.

@jessica that wouldn't happen to be related to the Netflix series would it?

Jamie wrote: "@jessica that wouldn't happen to be related to the Netflix series would it?"

It is. I watched the series over the summer and would like to get into the book this year, too.

it's not super scary but I'm going to throw 'the road' by cormac mcarthy into the ring, it's such an amazing, heartwrenching book

I nom Orange is the New Black for Nonfiction :) (also they are halloween colors how apprope)

Seconding The Road!

I'm nominating Dracula so I might actually finish it.

Dracula is so good! I wouldn't mind reading it again. I just bought The Exorcist. Have we done that one yet?

I'll nominate Carmilla- so maybe I will finally read it.

Some of these -- I'm not sure if they should go in contemporary or classic or what... I'm not sure how to do the polls this month!

iff there's like not enough to really divide it by then just group them together, tbh

I'm thinking of just making two polls with ALL of the books listed and then picking the ones that win from each... I doubt we're dumb enough to vote the same book number 1 in two polls.

I'm thinking of just making two polls with ALL of the books listed and then picking the ones that win from each... I doubt we're dumb enough to vote the same book number 1 in two polls.

hmm are you gonna add up all the votes a book gets on both polls tho? like what if you and me both want to read dracula and carrie, but you vote for dracula on poll 1 and carrie on poll 2 and I do the opposite, they're each only going to get 1 vote on each poll even though both of us want to read them!

lol did that make sense?

Jamie wrote: "hmm are you gonna add up all the votes a book gets on both polls tho? like what if you and me both want to read dracula and carrie, but you vote for dracula on poll 1 and carrie on poll 2 and I do ..."

That's what I was thinking. It just defeats the purpose of 2 polls if votes are going to be added together anyway.

Or is this like a ranking based system? Poll 1's choice is worth more points or something?

To keep it simple, I'm just picking the number 1 winner from each poll.

So Let the Right One In and Orange is the New Black, it seems?

that would be good cuz then it's a fiction and a nonfiction

Of course... my internet has been down/slow the last few days, so I haven't been able to check the polls. You guys couldn't just make it easy for me, huh?