Book Club Picks for October: Wicked and Batman: The Long Halloween

It's October 1st and that means two things: 1) my reading break is over and I have a lot of books to get caught up on. 2) it's time for new book club picks. Since it's the spookiest month of year, I wanted to pick a couple of books that set the tone for the month.

For The Book Girl's Book Club, I thought we could read Wicked, it's a mystery that centers around writers at a workshop. As for the Comic Book Club, I picked Batman: The Long Halloween, it's a classic I haven't read, so I figure we could read it together.

Here's to enjoying the month with good reads.


The Book Girl's Book Club Pick:

Book: Wicked by Joanne Fluke

Description:

A Killer Rivalry. . .

When Eve Carrington is chosen to participate in an exclusive writers workshop, she knows it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For one month, she will live, write, and share her work with nine other aspiring authors. The top three will get a chance to be published. But when the building they're staying in isn't ready and Eve sees the old mansion they'll be moved into, she starts having second thoughts. Not only is the mansion isolated but the deadlines are tight, the pressure intense, and the competition incredibly fierce. Her biggest rival, Angela, is writing a murder mystery based on the workshop and its participants. It's a brilliant idea. Until life begins to imitate art -- and death begins to knock out the competition . . .





Comic Book Club Pick:

Book: Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb with illustrations by Tim Sale

Description:

Christmas. St. Patrick's Day. Easter. As the calendar's days stack up, so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City. A murderer is loose, killing only on holidays. The only man that can stop this fiend? The Dark Knight. In a mystery taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, Batman: The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever told.

Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman's deadly enemy, Two-Face.