October Reading Wrap Up + Readathon Updates | 2023

Hi, hope you’re all having a good day!

Hope you all had a lovely October! Definitely another month that went by quickly. I thought I hadn’t read a lot but turns out wrong as I was surprised when I looked through my goodreads.

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Reading stats

• 11 books read

Reading formats:

• Physical reads – 5
• Kindle – 5
• Audiobook – 3

The Books I Read This Month Were:

The physical reads that I own

• When She’s Ready by Ruby Dixon
• Dante by Sadie Kincaid
• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
• The Captain by Elaine Waters
• A Curse of Blood and Wolves by Melissa McTernan
• The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
• Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
• Fangs by Sarah Andersen
• Alien Tides by January Bell
• Crumbs by Danie Stirling (library borrow)
• The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

My Favourites This Month Were:

Definitely read a mixture of books this month on how I felt about them. My favourites would have to be my rereads of Fangs and The Kiss Quotient along with The Screaming Staircase and The Last Magician.

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Readathon Updates

Hocus Pocus:

In my October tbr I mentioned that I was taking part in the Hocus Pocus readathon and managed to complete some prompts. As usual some changes in the reading plans throughout the month:

• Spooky book and rain sounds: The Graveyard Book (currently reading now)
• Characters with magical powers: The Last Magician ✔️
• Book about ghosts or featuring ghosts: The Screaming Staircase ✔️
• Book with a creepy or weird looking cover: A Haunting in Venice/Hallowe’en Party
• Set during Halloween: Pumpkinheads ✔️
• A romance: Fangs ✔️
• Group book: Witchlings
• Watch Hocus Pocus 1 & 2 ✔️

Buzzwordathon:

Template from Booksandlala

So far I have now completed 8 of the 12 prompts for this yearly readathon. I have two more months to complete it which I’m hoping to 🙂

Happy reading!

Until next time…

Xx