HalloweenOverkill Readathon Adventure 2011

Where you at ghouls?  So far all I have participating in the readathon is myself and Melissa over at http://littlemisszombie.blogspot.com/.  I'd really like a few more people to make this a really fun adventure, however if it is just myself and a few others that will be fine as well.  I will be creating the Readathon page this weekend so you can keep track of what has been read for what categories.  If you wanna see what Melissa has chosen for her books head over to http://littlemisszombie.blogspot.com/ and check out her picks.  Below are the picks I have made for the categories.

1.  Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.

     A book concerning time travel.

    My book: Slaughter House Five, by Kurt Vonnegut

 

2.  Is the book better than the movie?

     A book that was adapted into a film.

    My book: Something Wicked this way comes, by Ray Bradbury

 

3.  This thing is a paperweight!!!

     A book that is over 500 pages.

     My book: Under the Dome, by Stephen King

4.  A tribute to the Prince of Darkness.

     A book with Dracula as a character.

     My book: The Dracula Dossier, by James Reese

5.  Trick or Treat!!!

     A book that takes place on or during Halloween.

     My book: Dark Harvest, by Norman Partridge

6.  Just collecting dust.......

     A book you've owned for more than a year that has yet to be read.

     My book: Gil's All Fright Diner, by A. Lee Martinez

7.  Next year is gonna suck.

     A book concerning the apocalypse or the end of the world.

     My book: The Island at the end of the World, by Sam Taylor

8.  Stranger than fiction.

     A non-fiction book concerning horror in some way shape or form.

     My book:  Sundays with Vlad, by Paul Bibeau

9.  Old school master of horror.

     A book written by Stephen King.

     My book:  The Mist, by Stephen King

10.  New school master of horror

      A book written by Brian Keene

      My book: Castaways, by Brian Keene

11.  This stuff isn't just for adults.

      A young adult or teen horror novel

      My book:  The Hollow: Horseman, by Christopher Golden & Ford Lytle Gilmore

The cover images I used above obviously belong to the respective copyright owners, but I thought I'd show the actual covers of the versions I would be using in case any body else wanted to read the exact copies I own. Thanks and let me know if you're interested!!!!

Anybody like to read?

So I was thinking something fun we could all do during these long, cold, dark, winter nights was to have one of those fancy reading adventures? Any takers? If you don't know what it is, don't worry I didn't either until last week. How it works is I'll put up a bunch of categories for different themes on books to read such as; read a book by an author that starts with the letter b, read a book that takes place on mars, read a book with an animal as the main character, so on and so on. I see these sort of things taking place across many a literary blogs and forums and I thought it might be fun for us to participate in our own. Let me know if this is something any of you ghouls would be interested in and I'll whip up some categories tonight or tomorrow.