Horror Aficionados discussion
Lists & Reading Challenges
>
Fall Fear Challenge 2016!
Excelent! Good luck on your challenges, everyone!
So I'm in. I think I put about 7 books on shelf. Two are ordered, some are library, and some are on Kindle. See how I do. Every year I read either Shelley's Frankenstein or Stoke'rs Dracula. This year I'll read a different Bram Stoker, Jewel of Seven Stars.
Here's to new traditions for the Spooky Season!
Charlene wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The challenge isn't letting me put my shelf I made up on the challenge. It keeps saying add shelf name and I did. It's always something!"That's strange. ?? Let me try it myself an..."
I'm having trouble to. I set up a shelf and put seven books on it. But on the Group Home page, I keep getting an error about shelf not being created. Well, whether the shelf tracks or not, I'm going to start reading!
Thanks for setting this up.
Mod
Aww, I always miss you and the HA gang :D you guys are irreplaceable.. and get me reading more. I was just going through my Kindle looking if I have any appropriate books for this challenge so I can start today.
Katy wrote: "Charlene wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The challenge isn't letting me put my shelf I made up on the challenge. It keeps saying add shelf name and I did. It's always something!"That's strange. ?? Let me..."
It wouldn't let me add my shelf either until I added it exactly as goodreads had it listed - you know how goodreads likes to swap the spaces for dashes and change the capital letters to lower case in your shelf names.
Woo-hoo, got my first horror book put on my shelf!
V wrote: "Katy wrote: "Charlene wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The challenge isn't letting me put my shelf I made up on the challenge. It keeps saying add shelf name and I did. It's always something!"That's stran..."
I played with it a few times, renaming the shelf, and now the shelf is finally up and matches the challenge.
Now to start reading...
I'm going for 3 books. I've added some of my own.
_
_
Rachel wrote: "Woo-hoo, got my first horror book put on my shelf!"Ewwwwwww!!!! Scary cover LOL
I've added the grand total of 3! Woo hoo! I'm planning on reading quite thick books so I doubt I'll get through many at all.But, quality over quantity and all that!
Jennifer wrote: "I've added the grand total of 3! Woo hoo! I'm planning on reading quite thick books so I doubt I'll get through many at all.But, quality over quantity and all that!"
Doesn't matter how many! As long as you're enjoying the books and having fun, it's all good. :)
V wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Woo-hoo, got my first horror book put on my shelf!"Ewwwwwww!!!! Scary cover LOL"
Lol, yeah the cover was pretty good! The story was OK, it was about a Balinese demon queen. It was cool to read about that, but definitely a book for "young" adults lol.
For some reason, even though I created the shelf through the challenge, it isn't updating things I add to it. It says I haven't read any, but I've added 2 to the shelf.
Mod
I don't think it adds them until after you've marked them as "read"... Have you finished them yet?
I have my challenge as 10 books. Can you change it if you read more or will it just add that you went over your goal if you keep adding to your shelf ? I hope that made sense! :-/
Kimberly wrote: I don't think it adds them until after you've marked them as "read"... Have you finished them yet? I did. I'm probably going to poke around some faqs to see if I can fix it.
Update: You need to set the date finished.
Wahoo! I had read 4 of my 10 books already. Will it show if you go over like it does on your main goodreads reading challenge ?
Melissa ♥ Dog Lover ♥ wrote: "Wahoo! I had read 4 of my 10 books already. Will it show if you go over like it does on your main goodreads reading challenge ?"Wow, that's awesome!! lol
Not sure on your question but I think so.
Thank you, Rach :-D I guess we will see if I read over my amount!
Mod
"Almost" positive it does, just like for the other challenges. :)
Thanks, Kimberly :-)
Mod
For this contest, the more, the merrier!!! :)
I think I updated mine to 6 when I was trying to figure out how to make it work.
Mod
Sunruined by Andersen Prunty
Hmm, I'm still having some trouble with this. I've created my shelf and everything shows up on the challenge page just fine, but I've just completed my first book and it's still showing my progress at 0%. I've added my 3 books to my custom shelf, I've marked my first as "read", and entered the start date and the completion date just like it says, but I'm still showing up at 0%... does anyone have a solution? Thanks!
Hmmm I have the bookshelf, saved book to shelf, when I finished the book, I rate it and or review it clicked finished. Set dates. Click save it adds to shelf. Maybe refresh the page?
Mine did that until I set the date finished. But you said you already did that. The first time I accidentally changed the date added instead of finished, because they're right next to each other. I'll see if I can find the FAQ I used.
Update: The only things I could find were making sure the date is inside the challenge time, and that if you're updating from the mobile site, it has to be through Currently reading. So if you were doing it through mobile, try again from the regular site.
Thanks for helping out, Mixofsunandcloud! That's the only thing I can think of as well. Make sure that the book's date started AND finished are both within the guidelines of the challenge and, of course, make sure the books are on the proper shelf.
Charlene wrote: "Thanks for helping out, Mixofsunandcloud! That's the only thing I can think of as well. Make sure that the book's date started AND finished are both within the guidelines of the challenge and, of..."
Thank you Mixofsunandcloud, Charlene, and V! I appreciate all the help and tips! I played around with it a bit and discovered that I had accidentally created two shelves with the exact same name and had set my three books to the shelf that was not linked to the challenge. Everything is good now :)
Chris wrote: "Charlene wrote: "Thanks for helping out, Mixofsunandcloud! That's the only thing I can think of as well. Make sure that the book's date started AND finished are both within the guidelines of the ..."
AWESOME! :)
I finished three. Hoping to finish off 5 by the time I am done.
Sweet! Good luck to both of you!I challenged myself to 5 and I've read 4 so far.
Char wrote: "Sweet! Good luck to both of you!I challenged myself to 5 and I've read 4 so far."
Same with me, so I upped my challenge to 7, we'll see if I can make it.
I've finished two so far, but I'm reading more than one at a time. It shouldn't be too hard to make it.
Changed my goal to 10. 6 read so far
The Willows
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Halloween Tree
The Mist
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
The Exorcist
Currently reading Usher's Passing and loving it
Two down one to go! I just finished The Library at Mount Char and I absolutely loved it. I've never had so much fun reading a book.
Chris wrote: "Two down one to go! I just finished The Library at Mount Char and I absolutely loved it. I've never had so much fun reading a book."I'll have to move that up on my "to read" list.
Alabama wrote: "Changed my goal to 10. 6 read so far
The Willows
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Halloween Tree
The Mist
[book:Disappearance at Devil's..."
That's great, I still need to read a Paul Trembly book, gotta to get to it soon.
Mod
Wasn't that an amazing book? I bought the ebook but I also want a hard copy, such a keeper.
I needed a smaller, lighter book to read/carry around so I started reading The House Next Door for the challenge. O.M.G. i love it so much. It's getting really dark and there's so much tension already.
I'm getting a bit bored in Halloween Man. I think it's going to pick up soon, though. From what I've seen in reviews, the flashbacks are important, even if they tend to drag.
Rachel wrote: "I needed a smaller, lighter book to read/carry around so I started reading The House Next Door for the challenge. O.M.G. i love it so much. It's getting really dark and there's so muc..."That book is SO GOOD, Rachel! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. :)
It's the only book that author ever wrote in this genre.
Mixofsunandcloud wrote: "I'm getting a bit bored in Halloween Man. I think it's going to pick up soon, though. From what I've seen in reviews, the flashbacks are important, even if they tend to drag."Hope it picks up for you soon, Mix.
Mod
LOVED that one so much--and unexpectedly, since I hadn't heard of the author before that!
Kasia wrote: "Chris wrote: "Two down one to go! I just finished The Library at Mount Char and I absolutely loved it. I've never had so much fun reading a book."Wasn't that an amazing book? I bo..."
Yes! I had no idea what to expect when I picked it up and I couldn't put it down. It's definitely on my top ten list. Amazing book. I bought a hard copy and I'm glad I did because if I had bought the ebook I would go out and buy it again haha
I just read my 5th book. :) According to the challenge, I am right on track. Will hopefully knock out a couple of books over the weekend.
Completed the challenge! Read 7 out of 5 books with more to go.
Horror Aficionados
Books mentioned in this topic
Usher's Passing (other topics)The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (other topics)
The Library at Mount Char (other topics)
The House Next Door (other topics)
The House Next Door (other topics)
More...
I found these Fall/Halloween Reading Challenges as a guide.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r6ZIp68L35M...
I want to follow the first it can raise up spooky book count!