The Reading Challenge Group discussion

Goblins, ghouls, trick or treaters and witch's brews - all of these things and more can be found in our Halloween Readathon!

It's a spooky time of year, make sure you have a book right near! We'll be celebrating Halloween (hey, we'll come up with any reason to read!) with a Halloween Readathon.

Join us from Sunday, October 25th to October 31st for as much reading as you can handle.

Feel free to use this thread to plan our your reads, talk strategy with the group or just share how excited you are to have an excuse to read as much as you can all week!

It's too bad we cant get badges on here:( It would be cool like if we participated in this we got a pumpkin or owl. Maybe we should all cut out an owl pumpkin or bat for each book we read that week!

Actually, I think I'm gonna steal that idea for my students. >:-)

hehe go for it Renee! Anything to make reading even more fun!

Love that idea Jenny!

Wow, two weeks ahead of time. I'll barely have time to prepare myself.

We could always make little badges that people can add to their personal challenges threads?

Oooh, I love that idea Holly!

That sounds awesome, Holly! I'm sure it would be fun to collect badges!

I'll get on with thinking about different badges! Excited about this!

Love the pumpkin badge idea! Just need a little html love.

So are we all forgoing trick or treat to curl up and read? LOL!!!!!

I will be :)

I just started A spy came home

Yay!! Perfect time to get some stuff knocked off my (never shrinking) TBR list :-)

that'd be awsome Holly!

And thanks Kasandra!

Holly wrote: "I'll get on with thinking about different badges! Excited about this!"

That's a cute idea

I'm going to try and join in with this. I've never done a Readathon before and I think they look like something i'd enjoy. No idea what i'll be reading yet though I need to check out the 'Horror stories for wimps' section at the library.

OMG I just thought of something and this might be a stupid question: Does the book or books that you read during these readathon have to have a Halloween/horror theme? Because if that is the case I don't think I have any book with that theme.

Hi everybody. Ooo badges sounds fun and definitely rather be reading than trick or treating :)

Wendy wrote: "OMG I just thought of something and this might be a stupid question: Does the book or books that you read during these readathon have to have a Halloween/horror theme? Because if that is the case I..."

Amazon has ghost megapack book deals, They are usually a collection of horror or ghost short stories. I have lots of them downloaded to my Kindle.

Wendy - you can read any genre you like for the readathon, there are no restrictions on that. Some of our members may choose to read a horror or thriller genre for the season but you can read anything you like. I hope you enjoy it!

Kassandra wrote: "Wendy - you can read any genre you like for the readathon, there are no restrictions on that. Some of our members may choose to read a horror or thriller genre for the season but you can read anyth..."

Thanks and as long as the book interest me I enjoy reading very much. It will be fun to how munch I can read.

I might try to finish off the Vampire Knight series. I'm about halfway through and I'm ready to raid Alessandra's manga list again for something new. >:-)

I enjoy readathons.I am hoping I can finish Dracula. I love how the book is written in letters! Such a well written book.

Richard laymon--to wake the dead

Just a little over 4 hours to go for me until the start. I'm thinking of staying up really late tonight and finishing my book to start this readathon off on the right foot!

I Got my reminder and hopefully I will get tons of reading done. :)

I'm here and ready for some good reading. I'm hoping to read all I can so that my mind is distracted, which I could really use. I have alittle under 4hrs before midnight. I'll be starting which will work for Halloween :) and also try and finish my other books that I'm currently reading.

I've changed my mind about what to read about sixty times. Now I really just need to grab something so I'm ready when the clock strikes.

After reading all of the comments I have to ask, how many of you are staying up to start the read athon at midnight? I thought about it but I am fighting a cold and I need all the sleep I can get.

I was thinking about it Wendy but I'm fighting a head cold so I'm not sure how long I'll stay up but I'm going to try for alittle while at least. Even if I can do an hr I'll be happy.

I'm going to give it a go button tempted to just wake up early and get a full day in.

Everybody in my house stays up late anyway, so starting the readathon at midnight is no problem for me. Can't stay up too late though, church on Sunday morning.

I think I'll be joining in on this readathon, hopefully this will get me more active on the group and help me read more :)

I have a huge TBR that just keeps growing and a bunch of series that I want to finish reading, so I need the activity! Good luck everyone, I'll be starting with continuing my current reads until they're down to 3: 1 audiobook, 1 ebook on my phone, 1 ebook on my netbook

I think I'll be joining in on this readathon, hopefully this will get me more active on the group and help me read more :)

I have a huge TBR that just keeps growing and a bunch of series that I want to finish reading, so I need the activity! Good luck everyone, I'll be starting with continuing my current reads until they're down to 3: 1 audiobook, 1 ebook on my phone, 1 ebook on my netbook

Wendy wrote: "After reading all of the comments I have to ask, how many of you are staying up to start the read athon at midnight? I thought about it but I am fighting a cold and I need all the sleep I can get."

Wendy I could not even make it till 11pm, let alone midnight. But I was up early at the crack of dawn and I have in my hot little hands now. Best of luck everyone.

I stayed up until 2 with my book and after having some breakfast, I will return to it. I'm within sight of the end so I'm also trying to think of which book shall come next.

Happy reading everyone!

Me too - started this one last evening and went back to it early this am.

Finished my first book and still haven't decided what to read next. I have a stack sitting here waiting for me to make up my mind. It's at times like this that I wish I could read 2 books at the exact same time!

Planning on spending the night reading! Currently reading 'Walden, or Life in the Woods' by Henry David Thoreau which I am absolutely adoring!

The Readathon helped me finish It which was a giant chunkster, so now I am feeling successful and I can move on to my next book.

Congrats Chase!

I was planning on it but thank to this cold that I am still fight off I was still up at midnight when the readathon began so I said what the heck and start reading. I got a good hour in before the meds I took finally decided to take effect. I Had a ton of errands to run today since I have been pretty much home bound all week because of this cold but I did manage another 2.5 hours. I will try and get some more reading done today.

Sounds like you have had a really productive reading day Wendy. I hope you feel better soon!

status: p. 144 of 312 (46% done)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

-decent story so far
-too tired to continue as I had a geocache event today and fresh air wore me out

I didn't get much reading done today. I am reading The Hundred Secret Senses and A Dance With Dragons.

Progress so far today:

138 pages of The Burning Room
200 pages of See Me

Hoping to get in a few more before bed tonight but currently distracted by the new episode of The Walking Dead!

Only got 10 more pages into Think and Grow Rich, but I was able to get 152 pages into Harriet the Spy.

Definitely going to read a little more before bed.