Trail-Mix Readers discussion

Seriously, I have been out because it was a dominoes effect in our house with the sick...

We are officially in October, one of my favorite months of the year. Why, you ask? Because I LOVE seasonal flavors!! I am currently drinking Pecan Pie flavored coffee. Yum. I also love the beginning of the holiday season--Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years (and for you all I will add in there Dios de Meurtos, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and all the rest I missed because I don't pay attention).

Question for you: do you read seasonal books? Is there a book you read for Halloween or Christmas? Something that reminds you of a holiday every time you read it? Do you like finding those seasonal new releases and reading them (Halloween/Christmas Anthology or the like)?

Happy October to everyone! Fall is my favourite season. The leaves here in Muskoka are just stunning, and the weather is wonderfully crisp. :) I am especially excited for this month because our little one is due any day now, and I can't wait to meet him or her!

Answers for you: No. I generally do not read seasonal books. I know there are a lot of themed novels out there, but I read whatever catches my eye at the time.

I sometimes read Poe to my kids on Halloween. Nice bedtime stories for them, MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I don't read seasonal. If I happen to read something seasonal it may not be during the appropriate season. I just read whatever strikes my fancy.

I have Christmas movies, and that's about it. My mother quit reading to me as soon as I learned how to read in the first grade and the books I got for gifts weren't seasonal, so I would read fairy tales, Jules Verne and Mark Twain even a complete set of Shakespeare, which were my presents, at Christmas.

Every summer my mother signed me up for the Library summer reading club and we had to read books on different subjects, one biography, one science, one adventure, etc.

Kind of kills the whole seasonal reading impulse.

Halloween is by far my favorite season. For a couple of years I've wanted to get a group of people and dress up, half as Jedi, half as Sith, and walk around town, having random lightsaber 'battles'. One of these years I WILL do this!!

As for books, no, I don't really read seasonal books. Probably because there are plenty of things on tv that cover the whole 'seasonal' thing already.

Scott wrote: "Halloween is by far my favorite season. For a couple of years I've wanted to get a group of people and dress up, half as Jedi, half as Sith, and walk around town, having random lightsaber 'battles'..."

I am with you! Star Wars Halloween! I love to cosplay and Halloween is the best holiday ever!