Top Ten Tuesday: Books to get you in the Halloween Spirit.

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This Week's Topic is:

Top ten books to get you in the HALLOWEEN spirit 

Ok, This Tuesday we are trying something different. we are going to give the top five  of two topics. we are going to share with you our top 5 books to get you in the halloween spirit ( by Katie) and our top 5 bookish / movie characters to be for halloween (by Krisha)

Top 5 books to get you in the Halloween Spirit

1: Coraline - by Neil Gainman 

althought this has been made into a childrens movie, don't get confused. this is a creepy book, wonderfull book but definitly disturbing. Its about a girl who find a secret door in her house that take her to a different dimension of her own life, where she has an "other mother" and "other father" everything is great and they love her so much, but they don't want her to leave ... EVER. in fact they want her to sew button in her eyes just like them, and stay there with them forever.. so Coraline must find  way to escape back home and save her "real" parents. 

2: The Graveyard Book - by Neil Gainman

another great and creepy Neil Gainman Novel. Imagine The Jungle Book, but instead of an orphan being raised in the wild by animals.... picture an orphan in a graveyard being raised by ghost.. SERIOUSLY. great book for halloween for sure. 

3: The Noctourns - by John Connolly

From the same author of my favorite book " The Book of Lost Things", Connolly also wrote a book of short scary stories called "The Nocturnes" there is some super bone chilly stories in there.. i have not read all of the stories, but one of the stories in there called " The New Daughter" is great. The New Daughter is only about 6 pages long, but after reading i found that they had made a movie with this plot. check out the movie trailer ! i need to rent this asap

4: Anything by R.L Stine 

I've always been a fan of R.L Stine. I read a handfull of Fear Street Novles, and I have read about 90% of the goosebumps books. some of my favorites worth metioning are : Welcome to Dead House, Say Cheese and Die, Piano Lessons can be Murder,  One day at HorrorLand, Night of the Living Dummy, Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes,... seriously i am getting nestilgic naming these.. i can't wait till i have kids this age , i can't wait to read these again in the future. 

5: In a Dark, Dark room and other scary stories- retold by Alvin Schwartz 

these are a collection of scary stories for kids, and i did read these in elementary school, but one story from this book stuck with me all these years. "The Green Ribbon" if you haven't heard it before, here is a short youtube video to check out that reads the short story with illustrations. 

Top 5 bookish characters i would be for Halloween 

I decided this week to choose characters from books that I could see myself as for Halloween.  And, yes, I cheated and used books that have been made into movies.  -Krisha

1.  Effie Trinkett from The Hunger Games 

 I really liked how Collins described the people from the Capitol.  Everything is waaay over the top.  I think that anything extravagant and ridiculous would be fun.

2. Hermione Granger from Harry Potter

Rowling describes Hermione in the books as having much frizzier hair than Emma Watson ever had in the movies.  I could totally pull it off. 

3. Arwen Evenstar from The Lord of the Rings trilogy

I just always thought I'd look pretty with elf ears.  

4. Elphaba from Wicked

 Once again we've got pointy ears.  And what a great book!

5.  The White Queen from Through the Looking Glass

Dressed in all white would be hard to keep clean through Halloween night especially with all the junk food I'd be eating, but this would be another fun costume.  

Do you have some halloween reads reconmentaions? and What would your bookish halloween character be?let us know in the comments, and thanks for stopping by Inkk!