Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday, you pick ten books on that week’s topic. This week, we have a Halloween Freebie. Well, it’s a freebie, so I’ve put together some random (mostly) book-related videos and articles that I really liked recently. Hope you’ll enjoy these too!
1 / Lithub’s 25 Most Iconic Book Covers
Includes why these book covers are iconic. You probably have one on a T-shirt.
2 / Book Trailer for Wherever You Go by Pat Zietlow Miller
3 / Star Wars book parody trailer for Darth Vader and Son by Jeffrey Brown
4 / NPR’s Top 50 SFF Books of the Past Decade
Just in case, you know, you were looking for additional recs …
5 / What’s the matter with Book Reviews?
N+1 looks at some of the issues with book reviews.
6 / But who tells them what to sing?
In case you ever wondered what that movie music chorus is all about.
7 / Theme song from Outlander
8 / Marissa Meyer #LunarEver After
9 / The Harry Potter Rap
10 / Movie Trailer for Crimson Peak, for the Halloween spirit
Which of these links did you like best? What are your Spooky-ville plans for the 31st? Happy Halloween wishes in advance to everyone!
43 replies on “Ten Recs for Halloween”
That Outlander theme song was beautiful.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-halloween-picture-books/
It’s such a beautiful song!
Theme song from Outlander 😍😍😍
Yep, that entire Season 1 soundtrack by Bear McCreary is soooo good.
Awesomeness. I love lists (especially SF/F ones) so off to check this out. I’m queueing up your videos too…
Happy Halloween!!!!!
Haha, likewise, can never have enough of listmania!
Aaah this was fun and I want to come back. Loved the article on what’s wrong with book reviews and I have to agree with it!
Will pop in again to read the rest. But will listen to the songs now.
Happy Halloween Lex and here’s my Ten Pets you can get at Stephen King’s Pet Shop
Happy Halloween, I hope you enjoy the songs!
I do love Outlander’s theme song.
How did I totally forget about that Harry Potter Rap??
At least you’ve heard that rap before! I heard it for the first time this month, and was mesmerised. <3
Darth Vadar and Son (and the rest of the collection, too) just looks like so much fun! Thanks for reminding me about it. 🙂
Haha, it just made laugh like crazy. 😀
Oh the Outlander theme song is so good! Now I want to watch it again (and continue, since I didn’t make it past season 1 yet)
Same here, never watched beyond Season 1, but that OST is spellbinding.
I’m always a sucker for the Outlander theme song!
It’s just beautiful, and so true to the book too. Sigh.
I love book trailers, and that book review article was GREAT. Nice list!
My list— https://fiftytwo.blog/2021/10/26/ttt-book-covers-that-were-scarier-than-the-book/
Happy TTT!
Lori
Very eye-opening, that article. Happy TTT / Halloween to you too!
Wherever You Go looks cute. And I love Darth Vader and Son! 😀
They were lucky finds for me this October. Glad you enjoyed them!
My sister was just telling me how beautiful The Outlander song is. I totally forgot to go listen to it, so thanks for the link. It really is a gorgeous song.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I pretty much loved that entire Season 1 OST by Bear McCreary, highly recommended!
Fun post! My son and I are both Star Wars nuts and got such a kick out of that Darth Vader and Son parody book.
Likewise, I’m a major Star Wars fan. Just *had* to post that parody video 😀
FAbulous assortment, but as a die-hard Outlander lover, that one is clearly my favorite! I love how the theme song changes every season too to reflect the themes and locations. So lovely.
Really, the theme song video changes? I had no idea, probably skipped Intro way too often on Netflix. I’ve got to look this up now, thanks!
Ooh, y’know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a book trailer before? 🤔 Those are pretty nice! And ah, the art in the #LunarEver After video! Stunning 😍
Book trailers are a lot of fun! Instead of reading book blurbs, I sometimes just hunt down video trailers on YouTube.
Brilliant twist on the topic, Lex. I love it.
Thanks for visiting my TTT which presents books with food on their cover.
Thanks to you too, Marianne! I honestly had no clue on how to compile Halloween theme books, so I just went with interesting recent links instead.
This is a great take on the freebie! I laughed at the Star Wars parody because I was just watching The Force Awakens this morning. 😀
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Haha, that icecream cone!
My daughter loved that Lunar series. I’m going to have to show her the artwork!
It’s really a wonderful series. YA writers everywhere should take notes from that author.
This was a great choice for the freebie! I love the Lunar Chronicles and Harry Potter videos.
Here’s my TTT: https://ofpensandswords.com/six-bookish-halloween-costumes-ive-had-and-four-i-want-to-do/
The rap and the artwork are both so much fun!
Thanks for the link to the top SFF. I bookmarked it. I’m super picky about SFF, but when I find something I like, I’m obsessed.
I have read and really enjoyed a couple of books by Brown, especially this one.
Cool list, thanks!
Ooh, really? This is the first book by Brown that I came upon.
Crimson peak is a great film for Halloween! I’m not that big on horrors but it was good sort of medium scary?
Good scary, and you find that the humans are scarier than the ghosts.
The Star Wars Parody for me.
Lynn 😀
These are so fun. I had to check out the iconic book covers and yes, I could guess all of them even if they didn’t have the titles. There were just one or two I didn’t recall.