Books and Writing - October Book of the Month Nominations: Voting ends the 30th!

Stay to the Lights · 09-08-2013, 09:22 PM

Welcome to the Nominations for October.

Nominate a stand alone, OR the first book in a series.

Make sure it has not been chosen as a winner in a previous book of the month.

Tomorrow's skies · 09-09-2013, 08:50 AM

Remember this is the month of Hallowe'en

Stay to the Lights · 09-11-2013, 09:04 AM

Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will die. When Blue meets Gansey’s spirit on the corpse road she knows there is only one reason why – either he is her true love or she has killed him.

Determined to find out the truth, Blue becomes involved with the Raven Boys, four boys from the local private school (lead by Gansey) who are on a quest to discover Glendower – a lost ancient Welsh King who is buried somewhere along the Virginia ley line. Whoever finds him will be granted a supernatural favour.

Never before has Blue felt such magic around her. But is Gansey her true love? She can’t imagine a time she would feel like that, and she is adamant not to be the reason for his death. Where will fate lead them?

Tomorrow's skies · 09-12-2013, 08:47 AM

I nominate Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I haven't read the book, but the movie is spooky!

Coraline's often wondered what's behind the locked door in the drawing room. It reveals only a brick wall when she finally opens it, but when she tries again later, a passageway mysteriously appears. Coraline is surprised to find a flat decorated exactly like her own, but strangely different. And when she finds her "other" parents in this alternate world, they are much more interesting despite their creepy black button eyes. When they make it clear, however, that they want to make her theirs forever, Coraline begins a nightmarish game to rescue her real parents and three children imprisoned in a mirror. With only a bored-through stone and an aloof cat to help, Coraline confronts this harrowing task of escaping these monstrous creatures.

Stay to the Lights · 09-15-2013, 05:18 AM

I've heard of the movie, never saw it. Never realized it was based off a book.

**fly me to the moon** · 09-15-2013, 07:46 AM

I didn't know that the movie was based off a book since I saw it, but kind of little creepy for me, but good one.. I prob need to read that book..

Stay to the Lights · 09-15-2013, 08:05 AM

TWO more nominations guys. I'll make the deadline on Friday.

hann · 09-15-2013, 01:04 PM

The Historian by: Elizabeth Kostova

Late one night, exploring her father’s library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to ‘My dear and unfortunate successor’. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of – a labyrinth where the secrets of her father’s past and her mother’s mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history

ky02121 · 09-16-2013, 03:24 AM

[The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

A great book for Halloween

Quote:

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.

The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Sunnyolaf · 09-16-2013, 11:43 AM

All of these sound very good and spooky.

Tomorrow's skies · 09-19-2013, 09:03 AM

I think we're ready for voting!

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Stay to the Lights · 09-19-2013, 09:04 AM

I think we are.

The Raven Boys

Tomorrow's skies · 09-19-2013, 09:11 AM

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater -- 1
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Sunnyolaf · 09-19-2013, 09:31 AM

The Historian

But they all sound so good.

Tomorrow's skies · 09-19-2013, 10:15 AM

The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater -- 1
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova -- 1
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

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