LazyDayLit's OCTOBER 2022 WRAP UP & Challenge Progress

GOODBYE OCTOBER!!!

I hope you have all had a spectacular month! 

We had a more adventurous month than usual but I still got a lot of reading in! 


WHAT I READ:

GRAPHIC NOVELS / COMICS READ: 

CHAPTER BOOKS READ TO MY DAUGHTER:
(I don't count these towards my personal goal)

CHALLENGE PROGRESS

ABC CHALLENGE

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

22 / 26

JAN: +7

C, E, G, H, L, N, V

FEB: +5

A, B, M, P, R

MAR: +2
F, W

APR: +1
T

MAY: +2
O, S

JUNE: +1
D,

JULY: +2
I, U

AUGUST: +1
J

SEPTEMBER: +1

Y

OCTOBER: +0

BookRiot's READ HARDER Challenge

JAN: 1/24
FEB: 4/24
MAR: 4/24
APR: 4/24
MAY: 5/24

JUNE: +1
JULY:
AUGUST: +1
SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER:

The52BookClub Reading Challenge

20 / 52

JAN: +5
FEB: +3
MAR: +1
APR: +2
MAY: +2
JUNE: +2
JULY:
AUGUST: +5

SEPTEMBER: +
OCTOBER: 

9. A book that sparks joy:
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen 

32. A book that intimidates you:
The Book of Accidents


PopSugar Reading Challenge

Jan: 4 / 40
Feb: 7 / 40
Mar: +1 = 8/40
Apr: +0 = 8 / 40
May: +2 = 10/40
JUNE: +5 = 15/40
JULY: 
AUGUST: +3
SEPTEMBER:
OCTOBER: 

A book with a character on the ace spectrum:
Pumpkinheads

A book set during a holiday:
Pumpkinheads*

A book with onomatopoeia in the title:
Cackle by Rachel Harrison


NEW TO ME AUTHORS

OCTOBER:
Rainbow Rowell
Rachel Harrison
Jonathan Maberry
Chuck Wendig
Lindsay Currie
Madeline McGrane
Ben Montgomery
John Shackleford


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Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake #3) by Victoria Schwab (MG Paranormal Book Review)

 

Bridge of Souls
(Cassidy Blake #3)
by Victoria Schwab
Published by Scholastic Press
on March 2, 2021
Genre: Middle Grade, Paranormal, Ghost Story
Length: 304 pages
Ages: 8 - 12 years

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Synopsis:
Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows... unless it's the other way around?

Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while traveling for her parents' TV show. 

But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. In a city of ghost tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the colorful, grisly local legends. And the city's biggest surprise is a foe Cass never expected to face; a servant of Death itself. 

Cass takes on her most dangerous challenge yet...


My Thoughts:

I waited sooooo long for this! 
It was meant to come out in Oct of 2020 but was postponed til March 2021 and since it was my birthday present, I had to wait half a year for it to arrive. I didn't get a chance to read it that October so a lot of my enthusiasm waned. 
Bummer, yes, but it was still worth the read two years later. 

Cassidy Blake's best friend is a ghost named Jacob and her parents host a ghost-hunting television show that takes them all over the world to visit famously haunted locations. They've been to Edinburgh, Scotland and the catacombs of Paris, France and are set to film in New Orleans, Louisiana where hauntings and dark magic are abundant. 


I love the settings and history in this spooky middle-grade trilogy. New Orleans was a great finale choice, especially with the heinous history of Madame LaLaurie (though it is mostly just touched upon) and the added celebrations and hints of voodoo. It makes me want to visit even more! 

I won't give any more away but I really enjoyed this trilogy overall! This finale didn't have as much bang as the first two, but it had some suspense and spook and I liked how it ended!

City of Ghosts
Tunnel of Bones

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Disney's Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw (YA Fantasy Book Review)

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
by Shea Ernshaw
Published by Disney Press
on August 2, 2022
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Retellings
Length: 315 pages
Recommended ages: 13 +

Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Synopsis:
Jack and Sally are "truly meant to be"... or are they?

Sally Skeleton is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams---if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town. Cast into the spotlight and tasked with all sorts of queenly duties, Sally can't help but wonder if all she's done is trade her captivity under Dr. Finkelstein for a different--albeit gilded--cage. But when Sally and Zero accidentally uncover a long-hidden doorway to an ancient real called Dream Town in the forest Hinterlands, she'll unknowingly set into motion a chain of sinister events that put her future as Pumpkin Queen, and the future of Halloween Town itself, into jeopardy. Can Sally discover what it means to be true to herself and save the town she's learned to call home, or will her future turn into her worst... well, nightmare. 


My Thoughts:

Jack and Sally have married and are in their honeymoon stage with plans to visit every holiday town together but the new role of Pumpkin Queen is quite overwhelming and Sally finds herself escaping deep into the forest of holidays where she discovers an ancient door that isn't anywhere near the usual holiday trees. Accidentally leaving this new door open, she chases Zero back to town where she finds her entire world fast asleep, unable to be woken. 
Sally must figure out what happened and how to save Jack and the holiday towns from a sinister villain! 

I grew up watching The Nightmare Before Christmas and always wished there was a continuation or more about Sally!
This young adult novel starts where the 1990's claymation film leaves off, with Jack and Sally falling in love. 

I loved how cute this was! It has a very spoopy sense of horror, with a little bit of suspense added in, but nothing really very scary. I'd say it's perfect for middle-grade readers, except perhaps the mention of the 'honeymoon phase', which may be why it's considered a young adult novel. 

If you grew up watching this iconic film, you'll love the nostalgia this brings and if you're of a younger generation, you'll love the modern twist on this 'old-fashioned' film! 

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LazyDayLit's OCTOBER 2022 TBR & Reading Goals

Hello OCTOBER! 

It's Spooky Season!
Aka, my favorite time of the year! 

I love a good scary story and have a lot of great books that I hope to get to this month! Here are my October hopefuls! 

Library Loans

FROM MY SHELVES

What are you most looking forward to reading this month?

You can keep up with what I end up reading over on Bookstagram @LazyDayLit! 

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