This month, I'll be participating in the 2nd Annual Spooktacular Paranormal Reading Challenge, hosted by Marie at Ramblings of a Daydream. The purpose of this reading challenge is to read and review a minimum of three paranormal books between October 1st and 31st.

I can't believe it's October already tomorrow. But October means Halloween! One of my favourite times of the year. That reminds me, I need to plan what I'm going to carve into a jack-o-lantern this year. Last year was Voldemort and Thriller!Michael Jackson -- I got an amazing response from people, so this year needs to top it. I'm open to ideas!

Check out details on this challenge, taken from Marie's blog post:

• Read and review a minimum of three (3) paranormal** books. Reviews must be posted for the first time between October 1st and 31st, 2012. You don’t have to have a blog to participate, as long as you can post your reviews somewhere (GoodReads, Amazon, etc) and share them.
• For every paranormal book you read, review, and link up in the month of October, you’ll be entered in a giveaway to win one of the paranormal books below. To be eligible for the giveaway, you must complete the minimum of three books.
• The link-up in this post is just for sign ups. I’ll be posting a separate link-up for reviews on the 1st of October.
• Ebooks and audiobooks count. Adult and young adult books count. If this challenge crosses over into other challenges you're doing, that’s fine with me.

**PARANORMAL: Same as last year, I’m using a very loose interpretation of ‘paranormal’. It can be paranormal, fantasy, urban fantasy - basically any ‘creature’ or ‘otherworldly’ book counts - vampires, werewolves, faeries, shape shifters, zombies, angels, demons, mermaids, dragons, witches/wizards/sorcerers, trolls, sirens, banshees, etc.

Now, paranormal YA? My favorite kind. So it was hard trying to decide which 3 I'll read. Since my blog is new, I'll re-read a book and post a review of it for the first time. Plus I'm planing on re-reading the entire series to prepare for the movie release next year anyway (alksdjhf!). Another one will be a book that I just heard about yesterday, plus its sequel, which just came out.

1. City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare: Nephelim, demons, warlocks, vampires
   [✓ Review]
2. Sweet Venom (Medusa Girls #1) by Tera Lynn Childs: Gorgons, Greek mythological creatures
   [✓ Review]
3. Sweet Shadows (Medusa Girls, #2) by Tera Lynn Childs: Gorgons, Greek mythological creatures
   [✓ Review]

There is also a paranormal book giveaway going on with this challenge, so if you'd like to sign up, do so right here.