Rebecca is book-hooked’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2022)

Rebecca is book-hooked’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

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For Scary short stories I recommend Edgar Allan Poe & H.P. Lovecraft.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a good one.

Not a short story, but I'm currently reading The Phantom of the Opera and it's worth checking out.

Saar The Book owl wrote: "💎💎So, as I was thinking, Halloween is coming and maybe we should do a little thing around it. What if we suggest to another of our group our favorit horror, spooky...book and read it to finish it o..."

Good idea, but I would suggest recommending short stories (1-150 pg). If everyone works on completing short stories, the points will add up and give us a nice boost to end October.

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October Total: 54 points
1) The Field Guide - Spiderwick Chronicles #1, 10/1, 114 pg, 1 point
2) The Seeing Stone - Spiderwick Chronicle..."

It was 54 points (I have an Excel sheet that I use to track before entering it here and I double-checked.) But now my points are total of 55 because I added a book I read last night.

Catherine wrote: "What's been everyone's favourite read this month so far?"

The Mindf*ck Series and A Monster Like Me

Saar The Book owl wrote: "I'm in the mode for horror, scary books. So, what's you..."

My favorite gothic short story is The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

I LOVE The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

If you like classics, Dracula by Bram Stoker is a great one.

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Everything is updated. Waw, Rebecca, where do you find the time to read so much? I need some clones to do all my things, so I can just read.

I could give a lecture series on why I find books so fulfilling and how I am able to read so much. But the main things are:

1) I watch very little tv. During the work week I watch zero tv. On the weekend I will watch some movies and maybe a few tv shows. Though I still prefer to go out and do something rather than watch tv.

2) I listen to a lot of audio books. When I am cooking, eating, laundry... I'm listening to an audio book. Some of my hobbies are painting, cross-stitch, & jigsaw puzzles, I listen to audio books while I'm doing those. I have a water-proof speaker so I can listen to a book in the shower lol.

3) I prioritize and allocate time for reading. I fit it in whenever I can. I go to bed early because I know I want to get at least 1 hour of reading before falling asleep. It is absolutely an obsession.

I should conclude by saying that I did NOT grow up a bookworm. I used to read like 1 or 2 books a year. The epidemic hit, I got super bored and turned to reading. And that's how I realized that if I planned time for reading rather than trying to smoosh it in at the very end of the day when I'm exhausted, that I could make a lot of progress.

So ever since I've been challenging myself and setting goals to prove to myself that I can be a bookworm and a "well-read" person

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Catherine wrote: "Does anyone have any recommendations for good audiobooks? I will be biking more to work over the coming few weeks and I'm starting to catch up on my podcasts so I'm thinking I could use the time to..."

@Catherine half the books I read are audio so I have a lot of recommendations. For audiobooks I use Audible & Chirp.

1) The Hobbit & LOTR read by Andy Serkis (he voiced Gollum in the LOTR movies)
2) Frankenstein read by Derek Jacobi
3) To Kill A Mockingbird read by Sissy Spacek
4) War of the Worlds read by David Tennant (part of H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection)
5) If you like legal thrillers, I really enjoy John Grisham books read by Frank Muller. Some of my favorites are The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament
6) Dragon Rider (Cornelia Funke) read by Brendan Fraser
7) Jane Austen novels read by Rosamund Pike
8) Ready Player One read by Wil Wheaton
9) Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry or Derek Jacobi
10) A Clockwork Orange read by Tom Hollander
11) Daughter of the Pirate King read by Marisa Calin
12) Invisible Life of Addie LaRue read by Julia Whelan
13) Edgar Allan Poe read by Vincent Price
14) Neil Gaiman narrates his own works, The Graveyard Book is my favorite.
15) I'm Glad My Mom Died read by author Jennette McCurdy (I haven't read this yet but it has really high reviews.)
16) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland read by Scarlett Johansson
17) Watership Down read by Peter Capaldi
18) The Harry Potter books have a fantastic narrator, Jim Dale

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Don’t forget to read short stories for easy points. Lots of scary short stories out there perfect for Halloween.

Here’s a link to a short story that I love, The Most Dangerous Game:

https://www.classicshorts.com/stories...


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Kelly wrote: "*update total points 17

Happy Thursday Diamonds!
I have 4 books to add total of 6 points

10/4/2022 Northanger Abbey 343 Pages 2 Points
10/4/2022 The Self-Driven Child 384 Pages 2 Points
10/6/2022..."

@Kelly Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a BOTM, so it's worth 2.5 points

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@Tori if we start a book in October but finish in November, does that count toward November’s points?

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