Created by Becca from Becca and the books. It is a month-long readathon focused on thrillers, horror and you know the classic spooky season vibes.
The September #BookoplAthon will run from September 1st-30th BookoplAthon Twitter - https://twitter.com/BeccasBookopoly#BookoplAthon Discord - https://discord.gg/65uT8vu Google Drive with all resources & board - https://tinyurl.com/y3x4tkbw Book Tracker - https://forms.gle/9CaJkNghhUa7KWVJA Bookopoly TBR Playlist - https://tinyurl.com/5n95j7h6 Recommendation Videos - https://tinyurl.com/5748kdr7
I will start with 5 rolls. In case of getting doubles (two of the same number in both dice), I will add a roll with a limit of 10, I will have a 10 roll limit. Even I have to have some sort of limit.
Roll #1:
FeedScroll - The selected social media was GoodReads. I found two that seem interesting.
Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Book Description: After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemí’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.
Thistlefoot, GennaRose Nethercott
Book Description: The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway. But when they learn that they are to receive a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited--only to discover that their bequest isn't land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.
Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas' ancestral home in Russia--but not alone. A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine's blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family's traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide--erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.
Roll #2
Dice roll roulette
I rolled the 2 dice once more and got 8. That means pages 374 to 424.
I made a small hiccup when picking my book but we'll work with it, it's too late to change my mind now.
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
Book Description: This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.
Roll #3
Spice Latte: Anticipated read or with spicy topics.
Ring, Koji Suzuki.
Book Description: A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.
Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.
I will probably try to watch the movies after the books. It sounds like the perfect combo for the spooky season.
Roll #4
Community Shelf: Oldest book in your TBR shelf. I went with one of the books I have had sitting in my Kindle since 2017. I have a huge pile chilling there unread.
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Book Description: Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. When the novel was first serialized in La Revue de Paris between 1 October 1856 and 15 December 1856, public prosecutors attacked the novel for obscenity. The resulting trial in January 1857 made the story notorious. After Flaubert's acquittal on 7 February 1857, Madame Bovary became a bestseller in April 1857 when it was published in two volumes. A seminal work of literary realism, the novel is now considered Flaubert's masterpiece, and one of the most influential literary works in history.
Roll #5
TBR Vet. Again I'm going with one from my Kindle.
La maldicion de los Montreal, Raul Garbantes ( Montreal's Curse)
Book Description: Robinson Montreal is torn between finding purpose for life and letting himself be carried away by the curse that weighs on his family. His time is running out and, if he chooses to live, he must try to unravel the mystery behind said curse. It is also the story of tormented souls that transcend time, seeking to restore balance in a world of injustice. A novel that investigates the paradox of a humanity that begs for a feeling of belonging, but at the same time alienates and isolates itself in its own fears.
Roll #6
Stabby. True Crime, Thriller and Grimdark.
Everyone in my family has killed someone, Benjamin Stevenson
Book Description: Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.
I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that.
Have I killed someone? Yes. I have.
Who was it?
Let's get started.
Roll #7
Black Cat: Cat on the cover or a story featuring cats.
Devil's cat in the well, Selva Raj
A book about the vengeance a cat takes on the humans who harmed his family.
Roll #8
Becca's Rec
I found a few- the direct rec was In the lives of Puppets, T.J. Klune
Book Description: In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
The other not-so-direct recommendation is Jay Kristoff's Lifelike.
Book Description: It's just another day on the Scrap: lose the last of your credits at the WarDome, dodge the gangs and religious fanatics, discover you can destroy electronics with your mind, stumble upon the deadliest robot ever built When Eve finds the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend and her robotic sidekick in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, battle cyborg assassins, and scour abandoned megacities to save the ones she loves and learn the dark secrets of her past.
I really hope this pile doesn't prove too much to handle. I have high hopes for this month's reading.
Let me know what you're planning on reading for this spooky season!
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