With the weather here in the north east unseasonably cool and September right around the corner, it puts me in the mood for one of the most anticipated book challenges around - R.I.P. II! I was bummed when I missed the first spooky book challenge, hosted by Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings and am psyched to jump on the bandwagon with the 2007 fall version.
R.I.P. II is a September 1st through October 31st celebration of all tales gothic, eerie, creepy, and dark. Tales that one reads in the dark of night, experiencing delicious shivers of terror and suspense at each creak of the floorboards or each gust of wind.
Carl suggests some really great books for the challenge, two of which were favorite reads of mine (The Thirteenth Tale and Twilight). You can read Carl’s review of The Thirteenth Tale over at his site and check out my review of Twilight here. The Harry Potter books could also be included, but since I am more than half way through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I won’t include it as part of my challenge.
I’m going to try for “Peril the Third”, in which I can choose two very large books and read a smaller qualifying tale in between. My three choices are as follows:
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Sleep, Pale Sister by Joanne Harris
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
This will be the third challenge I have joined this year. You can read all about the Spring Reading Thing challenge in my wrap-up post this past June. As for The Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge I posted about in July, I’m embarrassed to say that I haven’t made any progress with my choices. I know, bad me. It has been a crazy summer, with preparing our house for the baby, then traveling half way around the world to pick her up. It didn’t leave all that much time for reading this summer. Luckily, the challenge doesn’t wrap-up until the end of the year, so maybe I can still make a dent in that pile.
