Top Ten Tuesday #70 - Books & Movies For Getting In The Halloween Spirit

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books/Movies To Read Or Watch To Get In The Halloween Spirit  

I love Halloween! I love scary movies, horror novels and things that go bump in the night! I blame this entirely on my mama who didn't realize that my sister and I would sneak downstairs to watch horror movies in the middle of the night, I also started reading Stephen King novels at a very early age because of wanting to read something really scary. This is a mix of books and movies which I try to read or watch around this time of year along with a couple of new things that are new.

Stephen King's IT

The Amityville Horror

Hocus Pocus

The Omen

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Woman In Black

An English Ghost Story

Horrorstor

The Birds

Once

Book Haul #73

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

Another great week on the buying front, one pre-order which I've been waiting for what feels like forever and a special edition hardcover of one of my favorite books. I think my postman thinks I'm sick or something as he hasn't had to stagger up the path under the weight of a dozen parcels! To make up for the lack of buying books it was library week this week so a nice big stack of books appeared on Thursday, lots of great reading for Easter.

Bought

Dreams of Gods & Monsters | Fahrenheit 451

Borrowed

The Other Life | Daughter of the Blood | Black City

Dearly Beloved | Happy Ever After | Dreams & Shadows

Dark Hear Surrender | Exit Kingdom | Boy Snow Bird

The Ninth Circle | Jasmyn | Bird Box

Top Ten Tuesday #36 - Books I'd Like Santa To Bring!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me

This turned out to be quite hard, I never get books at Christmas or for my birthday, the only way it happens if someone gives me a gift certificate and I choose them myself.  Therefore, narrowing down this list to just ten took quite some time because I just didn't know what to pick!

Cabinet of Curiosities - Guillermo del Toro

Charm & Strange - Stephanie Kuehn

Once We Were - Kat Zhang

Shadows - Robin McKinley

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Coldest Girl In Coldtown - Holly Black

Summer Morning, Summer Night - Ray Bradbury

Kinslayer - Jay Kristoff

Through the Zombie Glass - Gena Showalter

Never Fade - Alexandra Bracken

Top Ten Tuesday #2 - Books I Recommend The Most

 

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten  Books I Recommend The Most although this will probably end up reading more like top ten authors I recommend!

Dreams Underfoot (Newford #1) - Charles de Lint

A Game Of Thrones (Song Of Ice & Fire #1) - George R R Martin

Daughter Of The Forest (Sevenwaters #1) - Juliet Marillier

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen (Alderley Tales #1) - Alan Garner

Bitter Greens - Kate Forsyth

The Knife Of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) - Patrick Ness

The Name Of The Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles #1) - Patrick Rothfuss

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

The Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper

Honourable mentions go to

Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones

Once - James Herbert

The Shining - Stephen King

So, there's my Top 10... or Top 13 if you include the honourable mentions I included! I could have quite easily turned this into a top twenty list of books I try to make every one read but I missed out all the classics I normally try push on people along with several more fantasy, horror and SF authors that I read when I was little who, along with some mentioned above, are the authors that got me reading! I wanted to recommend Kate Forsyth's The Witches Of Eileanan but sadly they seem to be out of print at the moment. Instead I'm recommending Bitter Greens which I've only just started but is already a firm favorite!