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#SeriesCrackdown #SCReadathon Update! I finished Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison almost an hour ago, at 5:00p on November 4th. 😊❤ . . . . I love this story. It gets five stars from me even though I don't think I laughed or cried while reading it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Although I might have chuckled... I can't remember! 😲🙈 . . . . Here's what I read: . 📚 Nov. 1: through page 85 . . 📚 Nov. 2: through page 135 . . 📚 Nov. 3: through page 330 . . 📚 Nov. 4: through the end on page 416 . Turn to Photo Two to see what my next reads are! First, I'm going to read another Chapter or two in It by Stephen King for #BYOBthon's #ITober and then I plan to start book two in the Hollows series! The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by @kim_harrison_author! 😄😍❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #KimHarrison #StephenKing #books #DeadWitchWalking #TheGoodTheBadAndTheUndead #It #series #TheHollows #TheHollowsSeries https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpx4HtrnK2O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6ca7w3uuaebx

This post is my #bookscoasttocoastoct post for October 31st - #HalloweenThemed #WrapUp - and my #WitchAThon AND #BYOBthon #FinalStats and #WrapUp! Sorry for the late post: it's 1:37a on November 1st now!😄😍❤ . . . . The first two photos share all of the stories I read in October. I finished 23 and read Part 1 and First Interlude in a 24th for a grand total of 5,721 pages read! 😄😍❤ . . . . Photo Three shares the #WitchAThon Reading Challenges! I completed six of the seven and part of the seventh! For a total of 1,389 pages read, 4 books and part of a 5th completed, 6(.5?) reading challenges DONE! 😄😍❤ . . . . I decided to count City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab as my spooky horror/thriller book, as it was definitely spooky and thrilling! 😄❤ . . . . Photos Four through Six share the #BYOBthon reading challenges! I definitely completed 29/43 and It by Stephen King counted for part of 4 more challenges! Photo Seven shares a different list of reading challenges, and I completed all but 8 of them, with 2 being partially completed! 😄😍❤ . . . . #BYOBthon Stats, including ALL of the stories I read in October, are as follows: 5,721 pages read, 23 plus part of a 24th book completed, 29/43 + part of 4/43 reading challenges DONE! 😄❤ . . . . And lastly, Photo Eight shares my creature for the #BYOBthon! I tried to color him in to match how many reading challenges I completed. I think it's mostly accurate! 😄😍❤ . . . . Truly lastly now, since Max wasn't in any of the first eight photos, I took a photo of him asleep on the floor at the foot of my bed for Photo Nine. 😊😍❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #books #series https://www.instagram.com/p/BpoZq1QHxES/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dch4whqcsw31

#WitchAThon and #BYOBthon Update! I finished my 4th book for WitchAThon and it worked for two BYOBthon challenges! I finished City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab at around 5:00p on October 30th, almost 4.5 hours ago. It was a really fun, rather scary, super fantastic story. 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ . . . . Incidentally, I decided to up my star rating for The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. It too is getting five stars from me. Why? Because both it AND City of Ghosts had me feeling so tense at times that I felt sick! 😨😄⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ . . . . #WitchAThon Stats to Date: 1,228 pages read, 4 books completed, 5 reading challenges DONE! See Photo Five! 😄🎉❤ . . . . #BYOBthon Stats to Date: 5,560 pages read, 23 stories completed, 24 reading challenges DONE! See Photos Two through Four! City of Ghosts worked for challenges 28 and 34! 😄🎉❤ . . . . Photo Six shares an image I snapped last night, when I was in the process of finishing Part Two in City of Ghosts. It was scary! So I finished the book after the sun was up today. 😊❤ . . . . And Photos Seven and Eight share views of me reading City of Ghosts this afternoon with my Max on my legs. He woke up for Photo Seven but went back to sleep for Photo Eight! 😍❤😍 . . . . Oh! And Photo One is shown with a filter to make the photo not as dark, but I've unfortunately forgotten which filter I used! 😲🙈 Luckily, I was able to go back and find that it was the Sierra Filter. 😊❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #ReadingWithDogs #bookstagram #VictoriaSchwab #books #CityofGhosts #series #CassidyBlake #SierraFilter https://www.instagram.com/p/BplX2RZH6gk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bk5j8xzg7e4s

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Today's October 16th task for #bookscoasttocoastoct was to share a #bookandapumpkin. I took this photo earlier today for a #BYOBthon Twitter photo challenge to share a fall book. And then I realized that it has jack-o-lanterns on its cover! 😄😍❤ . . . . So Grave Errors, book five in the Witch City Mystery series by Carol J. Perry, is my book WITH pumpkins! 😄😍 Because we don't decorate for Halloween, so I don't have any real pumpkins to photograph. 😕🙈 . . . . And not only does Grave Errors have a fall cover, it's set in the fall, too! The story supposedly opens the day after Halloween. 😊😍❤ . . . . I haven't yet read this book. I've only read book one, Caught Dead-Handed, but I hope to get to the rest of this series this year! 😄🙄❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #CarolJPerry #books #GraveErrors #series #WitchCityMystery https://www.instagram.com/p/BpBay8in0-0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1re831l6zq7g0

#BYOBthon Update! I finished my 16th book on October 16th (at 8:45p)! 😄🎉❤ . . . . Not all of the books work for challenges, though. 😕🙈 . . . . Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw was wonderful. I really love this story. I laughed out loud at least half a dozen times and cried twice. 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ . . . . Photos Six and Seven share scenes from earlier today, when I was reading outside and Max was sleeping beside me. 😍❤😍 . . . . Photos Two through Four share the #BYOBthon reading challenges and Photo Five shares my creature! I've completed 21 of the 43 challenges, which I judged close enough to 50% that I colored in my werelion halfway! 😍❤😍 . . . . #BYOBthon Stats to Date: 3,294 pages read, 16 books completed, 21 reading challenges DONE! 😄🎉❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #VivianShaw #books #StrangePractice #series #DrGretaHelsing https://www.instagram.com/p/BpBUz-ln_ex/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2awsg7n50ycl

#CharmsExtraCredit #magicalreadathon (and #BYOBthon) Update! I completed all five Charms challenges! Granted, I read three children's books for three of the spells, and calling one of them DONE may be stretching things a bit, but I'm DONE! 😄🎉📚❤ . . . . The one that might be stretching things a bit is the book I read for "Incendio - flame picture on the cover." On the book jacket, Marisol's hair is described as "flaming red" and on the cover of Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash the ends of her braids look like flames, sooo. . . DONE? Or not done? I'm calling it DONE! 😉❤ . . . . For the other four spells, I read Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome (Sarai, # 1) by Saraí González and Monica Brown for the "Alohamora - read a book that's first in a series" task; Serpentine by Laurell K.h Hamilton for the "Accio - book that's top of your TBR" task; The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern for the "Rictusempra - book that 'tickles you the right way'" task; and Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match by Monica Brown and Sara Palacios for the "Lumos - book with a light cover" task because its cover is pale yellow. 😊❤ . . . . Photo One above shares the three children's books I read this evening. I read both Marisol McDonald books between 5:30p and 6:45p and then read Sarai and the Meaning of Awesome and finished it before 9:00p. I would have finished it sooner, but ... distractions. 🙈😊❤ . . . . Photos Four and Five share the first two books I read for this #CharmsExtraCredit 'thon: Serpentine, which I finished on Wednesday, and The Night Circus, which I finished earlier today. 😊😍❤ . . . . And Photos Two and Three share the #CharmsExtraCredit spells! Photo Two is my colored in version of the Extra Credit sheet; and Photo Three is my list of the spells with the books I read for them. 😊😍❤ . . . . Stats for this #CharmsExtraCredit 'thon: 1,163 pages read, 5 books completed, 5 reading challenges DONE! 😄🎉❤ . . . . And new #BYOBthon Stats to Date: 2,941 pages read, 15 books completed, 19 reading challenges DONE! 😄🎉❤ . . . . Lastly, thank you to @akossket for sharing these children's books! I really enjoyed them. Four stars for all three! 😄⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo8NC8CHWPv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18nxre73dj9je

Today's October 14th Day 9 task for the #deweyoct #Readathon countdown photo challenge from @deweysreadathon is combined with a #BYOBthon Update! 😄😍❤ . . . . The #deweyoct task is to share a #blackcover. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern has a black cover! 😍❤😍 . . . . And I finished it over 45 minutes ago! I finished The Night Circus at 12:50p on October 14th. It was excellent. I really loved it. It's one of very few books that feel STUPENDOUSLY AMAZING despite the fact that I never laughed or cried. So, five stars. 😊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤ . . . . #BYOBthon Stats to Date: 2,776 pages read, 12 books completed, 19 reading challenges DONE! 😄🎉❤ . . . . Photos Two through Four share the BYOBthon reading challenges and Photo Five shares my creature! I colored him in a bit more. 😊😍❤ . . . . #DogsofInstagram #bookstagram #ErinMorgenstern #books #TheNightCircus https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo7V4MHnG2U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dotkn1ufnx2j