Cheyenne Williams’ Haunted Week

Over at This Girl Reads, Cheyenne Williams has come up with an intriguing challenge to celebrate Halloween. Challenging enough that I want to see if I can follow her rules. Yep, she does not require that anyone follow the rules, but I like her ideas enough that I plan on…well, adhering to the idea of ’em!

In the week leading up to Halloween, I’m supposed to post something about books daily, beginning October 24th and ending on the 31st. It’ll be fun to see what I come up with…for me at least! Y’all’ll just hafta suffer.

Day 1: Ghosts of Books Half-Read

Five books I began but never finished. The words that are watching me from the corner of the room, waiting, lingering in the doorway, yearning to be set free.

Day 2: Bats in your Book Pages

Five things in books that drive me round the bend, the idiotic antics, the issues that are so wacko-nutso that I am knocked senseless.

Day 3: Skeletons on My Bookshelf

Five books that I have owned forever but have never gotten around to reading. Those volumes that lurk upon my shelves, squinting down at me with their beady little words, shaming my guilty conscience with my procrastinating ways.

Day 4: Back From The Grave

Five books that I read and loved as a kid. Old friends that I must dig up and resurrect. To breathe new life into their stories by passing my love—or at least the knowledge of them—onto you.

Day 5: It Came From the Web

Five book blogs that I think are amazing. Wondrous blogs which provide a different perspective, pour forth humor, educate me, or simply fill me with spectacular ideas, thoughts, or dreams.

Day 6: Tricked or Treated

Five books that surprised, shocked, stupefied, amazed, staggered, or simply caught me off guard. It could be amazed by the excellence or putridness of the writing. Staggered perhaps by the sheer nerve of writing such salacious tales. Awed by the twists and turns. The new worlds created.

Day 7: Written in the Tombstone

An epitaph, a legend, an elegy, commemorative words, an inscription, famous last words…hmmm…the possibilities…

October 31st – Beaware of Book Review

A review of a scary story of my choice! Hmmmm… What would be horrifying to me? Lousy proofreading? No character development? An emotionless tale?

Or perhaps this is where I will create my own category. Say…five horrorific books which have made an impact on me…? Stories that have caused me to view the world in a different light or caused me to pile up yet more covers to hide under!

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Think about the possibilities in your own life. What drives you bats? Have you skeletons of your own? Books you never finished? Books you adored as a child? Stories that surprised, titillated, or terrified you??