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What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 6:29 am
by princesscookie19
What do you like to read on holidays like a
scary book for Halloween and a Christmas children's book? I love reading short scary books @ Halloween
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:44 pm
by Irwin M Fletcher
I usually go with horror books around Halloween. Last October I read the movie tie-in novelizations for the first 3 Halloween movies. I have 3 more ready for this Halloween, Ghostbusters 1 and 2 (not horror but Halloween type reading) and Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight. Halloween is generally the only holiday I change my reading habits for but last Christmas I read a book called "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp. It's the book that Die Hard was based on and also takes place at Christmas.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2020 8:04 am
by Cattleman
These days I don't read anything special. When I was a child, one radio program (remember, this was pre-television) we never missed at Christmas was Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." There was a saying at our house, "Christmas isn't Christmas without Scrooge." Don't remember reading anything special at Halloween.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:21 am
by Irwin M Fletcher
For those in America (or those just wanting a funny story) Stephen King's short story "Drunken Fireworks" would make for good Fourth Of July reading. It's about a fireworks "arms race" between two families who live across from each other on a lake and try to outdo each other every July 4th.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 11:24 am
by princesscookie19
Is there any good books for Halloween? Im looking for a good author to celebrate Halloween ..since its my favourite time of year
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:13 pm
by Murmur
I read the same stuff on holidays as other days. Religious stuff, horror stories, Skeptic magazine, etc.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:01 am
by Irwin M Fletcher
princesscookie19 wrote:Is there any good books for Halloween? Im looking for a good author to celebrate Halloween ..since its my favourite time of year
Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree" is a pretty quick/fun read.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:45 am
by Cattleman
I had forgotten "The Halloween Tree." And Bradbury is one of my favorite writers.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:20 pm
by Irwin M Fletcher
Cattleman wrote:I had forgotten "The Halloween Tree." And Bradbury is one of my favorite writers.
Yeah I love Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles" is one of my favorite books. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" would also be pretty good Halloween reading.
Re: What do you like to read on the hoildays?
Posted: Wed May 26, 2021 3:51 am
by AmberP
Now I'm reading what the kids are reading. With the beginning of the quarantine, our library really expanded, because the kids were home all the time. I ordered all the books from here
https://www.top-mom.com/best-books-for-toddlers/, I am reading with my youngest son very quickly. He likes the big pictures and the fact that the books are about animals.