Kate Spofford, author

Tag: ya horror

  • 31 days of Halloween, day 3: book/movie pairings

    31 days of Halloween, day 3: book/movie pairings

    Sometimes a movie has the same flavor as a book, or maybe you saw the movie first, the book has a similar taste. Here are just a few YA horror books and their horror movie matches.

  • November reading round-up

    # of books read: 10 audiobooks listened to: 3 total page count: 1,782 year total page count: 38,498 / 40,280 I didn’t get as much reading in as I would have liked this month, because I was busy Nanowrimo’ing. View this post on Instagram At the beginning of the month I was still working my…

  • October reading round-up

    # of books read: 11 audiobooks listened to: 2 horror novels read: 7 total page count: 3,149 year total page count: 38,498 View this post on Instagram The first book read this month was from the batch I got signed at the Boston Teen Author Festival.  Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe…

  • 3 on a theme: living houses

    3 on a theme: living houses

    I am often reading between 3 and 5 books at the same time, and occasionally there’s a theme that might not be remarkable in one book… but when I see it in three books, I take notice. It’s a common trope, the haunted house.  But not so common when the house becomes its own character……

  • 31 Days of Halloween, Days 14-15: Miss Peregrine & Sanctum

    It’s been a busy couple of days!  Last night I went to see Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which isn’t exactly a horror movie but it has some very creepy elements.  I loved all of the books – unfortunately, I can’t say the same for the movie. If you have read the books, the…