BOO!
Welcome to Club Dare 2.0.
It’s very easy.
During OCTOBER we DARE you to face your fears and get your Goth on!
Simply read a CLASSIC book from your #CClist that you classify as thrilling, a mystery, or Gothic. It could even be a book or author that SCARES you (because of its length, its topic, its reputation etc).
Combine it with other challenges if you wish.
Do you DARE? If so:
- Let us know what you’ve DARED yourself to read during OCTOBER in the comments below.
- If you want, create a post telling us why you chose this book as your DARE. Go into all the gory details about its scare factor and link it back here!
- When you’re finished, write about the book at your blog.
- Pop back at the end of October to share your DARE.
- Link your review in our REVIEW page.
- Feeling social? Tweet, fb or instagram about your DARE.
- #ccdare
- That’s it! 🙂
As always, our aim is to help you read more books from your #CClist in a fun, friendly way. Join in as little or as much as you like, it’s up to you. But for now, we hope you DARE to DARE!
I’m planning on reading Austen’s [Northanger Abby], which I’m given to understand is a riff on Gothic novels. Count me in! 🙂
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A author thar scares you… Interesting & SCARY!! I am not going for Gothic subject but rather an intimidating book/ author – And Quiet Flows The Dawn by Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov. My Dad used to love this book and I am but curious & wary. But October we shall tackle this book!
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I’m going to read Walter Scott’s Kenilworth for this dare. It’s long as Scott never used one word when he could use twenty. Last time I gave it up after about ten pages!
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Very possibly William Beckford’s Vathek or more probably a reread of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, which is on my list!
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Dare accepted! I’ll be reading The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe.
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I accepted the dare before I knew about it! My CC book for September is The Devil’s Elixirs by ETA Hoffmann, an 1815 Gothic novel based somewhat on Matthew Lewis’sThe Monk (which I have not read yet, but is also on my CC list).
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I accept the dare! http://bibliographicmanifestations.blogspot.com/2021/09/time-to-get-your-goth-on.html
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Looks like I’m already planning to read Sleeping Murder for The 1976 Club in October, but I will also undertake to read The Bride of Lammermoor, which is the only other book on my list that I think would qualify.
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