Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Thanks for stopping by to watch this video, we're sharing #Victober reads, updating you on the progress we've made with our Ghost Story Bingo cards, and letting you know about #FridayReads.

What are you #currentlyreading? Are you participating in any reading challenges? Have you gotten a BINGO on your card? Fill us in using the comments below or send an email to bookcougars (at) gmail.com. Bonus points for pictures of your Ghost Bingo Cards.

BOOKS MENTIONED:
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780199296989
- Anne Brontë Nightwalker: A Brontë Blood Chronicle by Gea Haff: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780997795301
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780141441351
- The Last Witch by C.J. Cooke: bookshop.org/a/17535/9798217187799
- A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593550205
- Crown City by Naomi Hirahara: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781641296083 (pub date 2/17/26)
- Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781641293693
- Leaf Town by Beth and Kathleen Rooney, illustrated by Betsy Bowen: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781517917371
Kathleen was featured in an Author Spotlight on Episode 109: bookcougars.com/blog-1/2020/episode109
And twice on our BookTube channel:
youtube.com/watch?v=STCUigSyq6c
youtube.com/watch?v=hEAnibrKsVM
- The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley: bookshop.org/a/17535/9798217047604
- Orphans of the Living by Kathy Watson: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781647429782
- A Web of Obsydian by Lydia M Hawke: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781989457283
- Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781250874634
- The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781546132431
- A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke: A Ruby and Cordelia Mystery: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781250336675
- The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse by Jessica Lévai: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781941360514
- (Don't) Call Mum by Matt Wesolowski: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781739458041
- The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593712948
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780525541349
- An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke: bookshop.org/a/17535/9781565126145
- Chasing Beauty by Natalie Dykstra: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780063378353
- Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Donna Leon: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780802165374


*** Our 4th Quarter Readalong is How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix: bookshop.org/a/17535/9780593201275
Send us an email if you would like to join the Zoom conversation on November 9th at 7PM (ET).


Hosts for #Victober:
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‪@katiejlumsden‬
‪@BlatantlyBookish‬
‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬
‪@elizabethaliteraryprincess‬
‪@HannahsBooks‬
‪@dickens-and-docks‬ & tinyurl.com/mr3y3rzy
‪@MilenaReads‬
‪@royreadsanything‬
‪@takingteawithcatherine‬


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