Delicious Dish: Halloween Black Bat Wings

These sweet and savory BBQ chicken "bat wings" are the perfect dish for your next spooky themed Halloween party or book club.  They look so much like bat wings on something out of a horror movie, your guests will be be doing double and triple takes on these creepy little guys. 

Food Ideas for "Shutter" {by Courtney Alameda}

This month's book club we read the YA Thriller Shutter by Courtney Alameda.

We thought this would be the perfect time of year to read a scary book with Halloween just around the corner. The food table was positively spooky with the bloody table cloth and dry ice fogging over everything.

Book Review for "Shutter" {by Courtney Alameda}

TITLE: Shutter
AUTHOR: Courtney Alameda
PUBLISHER: Feiwel and Friends/Macmillion
NUMBER OF PAGES: 384
YEAR PUBLISHED: 20
READING LEVEL:Young Adult
GENRE: Young Adult Horror!!

SUMMARY: Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained to destroy corporal and spiritual monsters. She uses her SLR camera to exorcize ghosts by capturing their spiritual energy on film. When a routine ghost hung goes awry, Micheline and her team (including Ryder, the guy she's loved forever) are infected with a curse known as a soulchain. She has seven days or less to exorcise an entity of she and her friends will die.

Shutter Book Bash: We were completely spoiled to have the amazing author, Courtney Alameda join us for the evening! Kelly was our moderator and she did an incredible job bringing Shutter to life! Be sure to check out our Photo Recap of the evening too! (coming soon)

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